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Ch.11 Vocab JX
US History Ch.11 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An Englishman who sailed to the US and invented the first successful water-powered textile mill in America. | Samuel Slater |
| A time when factory machines replaced hand tools, and large-scale manufactyring replaced farming as the main form of work. | Industrial Revolution |
| Brought many workers and machines together under one roof. | factory system |
| textile mills in the village near the Merrimack and Concord Rivers. | Lowell mills |
| parts that are exactly alike. | interchangeable parts |
| Invented a steamboat that could move against the strong current or a strong wind. | Robert Fulton |
| First demonstated his telegraph. | Samuel F.B. Morse |
| Invented a machine for cleaning cotton in 1793. | Eli Whitney |
| Whitney's machine that made the cotton-cleaning procss far more efficient. | cotton gin |
| religious folk songs. | spirituals |
| Led a famous slave rebellion in Virginia (1831)killing many white people. | Nat Turner |
| A feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward your country. | nationalism |
| A representative from Kentucky who was a strong nationalist. | Henry Clay |
| A plan promoted my Henry Clay to establish a protective tariff, establish a national bank, and improve the country's transportation systems. | American System |
| A massive water route created between New York City and Buffalo, New York. This opened the upeer Ohio Valeey and the Great Lakes region to settlement and trade. | Erie Canal |
| A Democratic-Rpublican who won the presidency in 1816 with a large majority of electoral votes. | James Monroe |
| Loyalty to the interests of your own region or sectioni of the country. | sectionalism |
| Clay's plan passed by congress to keep the balance of power in the Senate between the slave states and free states. | Missouri Compromise |
| A statement issued that said America was closed to further colonization, and warned that European efforts to reestablish would be dangerous. Finally, promised the US would stay out of European affairs. | Monroe Doctrine |