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Ch 11 vocab
| word | defenition |
|---|---|
| Samual Slater | established the first spinning mill in the untited states |
| Industrial revolution | an era where manufacturing replaced farming as the main work source |
| factory system | brought many workers and families under one roof |
| Lowell mills | first to employ girls in company owned boarding houses |
| interchangeable parts | parts that are exactly alike and can be switched out |
| Robert Fulton | invented the steamboat |
| Samual F. B. Morse | invented the telegraph and morse code |
| Eli whitney | invented the cotton gin |
| cotton gin | made cleaning cotton easier by removing the seeds |
| spirtuals | religious folk songs |
| Nat Turner | led a slave rebelion in Virginia |
| nationalism | is a feeling of pride for your country |
| Henry Clay | a strong nationalist |
| American system | a plan promoted by Henry Clay |
| Erie Canal | created a water rout from New York City to Buffalo New York |
| James Monroe | became president in the election of 1816 |
| sectionalism | loyalty to the interests and culture of your area or region |
| Missouri Comprimise | kept power in the senate balanced between the slave states and the free states |
| Monroe Doctrine | stated that America was closed from further colonization |