Answer | Question |
Samuel Slater | An Englishman that sailed to the United States under a false name to tell the secret of the new machines in Britain |
Industrial Revolution | In late 18th-century Britain, factory machines began replacing hand tools and manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work |
factory system | A method of production that brought many workers and machines together into one building |
Lowell mills | Textile mills located in the factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts, founded in 1826 |
interchangeable parts | A part that is exactly like another part |
Robert Fulton | Inventor of the steamboat in 1807 |
Samuel F.B. Morse | Inventor of the telegraph in 1837 |
Eli Whitney | Inventor of the cotton gin in 1793 |
cotton gin | a machine invented in 1793 that cleaned cotton much faster and far more efficiently than human workers |
spirituals | a religious folk song |
Nat Turner | Believed that God wanted him to free the slaves. He defended the justice of his cause in what came to be known as Confessions of Nat Turner. |
nationalism | a feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward one's country |
Henry Clay | |
American system | a plan introduced in 1815 to make the United States economically self-sufficient |
Erie Canal | completed in 1825, this waterway connected New York City and Buffalo, New York |
James Monroe | |
sectionalism | the placing of the interests of one's own region ahead of the interests of the nation as a whole |
Missouri Compromise | a series of laws enacted in 1820 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states |
Monroe Doctrine | a policy of U.S. |