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Chapter 11 Vocab Bk
Question | Answer |
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the Englishman sailed to the United States under a false name. | 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 |
invented a steamboat that could move against the current or a strong wind. | Robert Fulton |
first demonstrated his telegraph | Samuel F. B. Morse |
invented a 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 |
The most famous rebellion was led by | Nat Turner |
a feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward one’s country. | Nationalism |
Representative from Kentucky, 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 presidency in 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 |
in 1820. It kept the balance of power in the Senate | Missouri Compromise |
a policy of U.S. opposition to any European interference in the Western Hemisphere, announced by President Monroe in 1823. | Monroe Doctrine |