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Chapter 11 Vocab VK
Definition | Word |
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Englishman who built the first succesful water-powered textile mill | Samuel Slater |
Era where machines and factories started taking over the country | Industrial Revolution |
Brought many workers and machines together under one roof | Factory System |
Textile Mills in the willage that hired farm girls who lived in company owned boardinghouses | Lowell Mills |
Parts that are exactly like the original and can be used for them.They speed up production, made repairs faster and used lower paid less skilled workers | Interchangeable parts |
Invented the first steamboat that could move across strong currents or winds | Robert Fulton |
Invented the telegraph which sent long and short pulses of electricity along a wire | Samuel F. B. Morse |
Invented a machine for cleaning cotton in 1793 | Eli Whitney |
Made cotton cleaning more efficient because one worker could now clean 50 pounds of cotton | Cotton Gin |
Religious folk songs | Spirituals |
Led the slaves rebellion that killed 55 people | Nat Turner |
Feeling of pride, loyalty, protectiveness toward you country | Nationalism |
Strong nationalist from Kentucky who supported Madison | Henry Clay |
The plan that Henry Clay promoted which set rules for foreign goods | American System |
Created a water route between New York City and Buffalo. It opened up the Ohio Valley and the Great Lakes Region to settlement and change | Erie Canal |
Won the presidency in 1816 with a large number of electoral votes | James Monroe |
Loyalty to the interests of your own region or section of the country | Sectionalism |
Clay's plan to make Missouri a slave state | Missouri Compromise |
Statement by Monroe saying that Americans closed to further colonization ar considered dangerous to their peace and safety | Monroe Doctrine |