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Chapter 11 Vocab-S.S
Question | Answer |
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He was a refugee leaving Britain to bring its secrets to America. He created the first successful water-powered textile mill in America. | 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. | Interchangeable Parts |
He invented a steamboat, "Fulton's Folly", that could move against the current or a strong wind. | Robert Fulton |
He invented the telegraph system where it took only seconds to communicate with someone in another city. | Samuel F. B. Morse |
He invented the system of Interchangeable Parts as well as the cotton gin. | Eli Whitney |
A machine invented in 1793 that cleaned cotton much faster and far more efficiently than human workers. | Cotton Gin |
A religious folk song. | Spirituals |
One of the most famous slave rebellions was led by him in Virginia, 1800. | Nat Turner |
A feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward one's country. | Nationalism |
A Kentucky representative who was a strong nationalist. | 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 |
Democratic-Republican who won the Presidential Election of 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 1825 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 |