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Chapter 11 Vocab VK
| Definition | Word |
|---|---|
| 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 |