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Ch. 11 Vocab. kk.
Tralalala
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An Englishman who sailed to the United States and invented the spinning mill. | Samuel Slater |
| In late 18th century Britain, factory machines began replacing hand tools and manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work. | Industrial Revolution |
| A method of production that brought many workers and machines together into one building. | Factory System |
| Textile mills located in the factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts, founded in 1826. | Lowell Mills |
| A part that is exactly like another part. | Interchangable Parts |
| He invented a steamboat that could move against the current or strong wind in 1807. | Robert Fulton |
| In 1837, he invented the telegraph, bringing people closer as a nation. | Samuel F. B. Morse |
| He invented the cotton gin in 1793, making cleaning cotton much more efficient. | Eli Whitney |
| A machine invented in 1793 that cleaned cotton much faster and far more efficiently than human workers. | Cotton Gin |
| Religious folk songs. | Spirituals |
| A slave in Virginia that led the most famous rebellion in 1831. | Nat Turner |
| A feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward one's country. | Nationalism |
| A strong nationalist from Kentucky that wanted to strengthen the country and unify its' different regions. | Henry Clay |
| A plan introduced in 1815 to make the United States economically self-sufficient. | American System |
| Completed in 1825, this waterway connected New York City and Buffalo, New York. | Erie Canal |
| A Democratic-Republican that won presidency in 1816 with a large majority of electoral votes. | James Monroe |
| The placing of the interests of one's own region ahead of the interests of the nation as a whole. | Sectionalism |
| A series of laws enacted in 1820 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states. | Missouri Compromise |
| A policy of U.S. opposition to any European interference in the Western Hemisphere, announced by President Monroe in 1823. | Monroe Doctrine |