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Chapter 6 Terms and Names

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Eli Whitney   important American inventor who first demonstrated the use of interchangeable parts and invented the cotton gin  
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interchangeable parts   standardized parts that can be used in place of one another  
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mass production   the production of goods in large quantities, mad possible by the use of machinery and the division of labor  
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Industrial Revolution   the change in social and economic organization that resulted from the replacement of hand tools with machines and from the development of large scale production  
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cotton gin   a machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton  
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Henry Clay   Speaker of the House who proposed the American System  
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American System   a set of measures designed to unify the nation and strengthen its economy  
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National Road   a federally funded road that extended from Cumberland, Maryland to Vandalia, Illinois  
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Erie Canal   a 363 mile long artificial waterway connecting the Hudson River with Lake Erie  
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McCulloch v. Maryland   an 1819 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that Maryland had no right to tax the Bank of the United States, thereby strengthening the power of the federal government  
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John Quincy Adams   Secretary of State under President Monroe who established a foreign policy guided by nationalism, also later President of the United States  
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nationalism   a devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation  
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Adams-Onis Treaty   an 1819 agreement in which Spain gave control of Florida to the United States  
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Monroe Doctrine   a policy of US opposition to European interference in the affairs of the Western Hemispher  
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Missouri Compromise   a series of agreements passed by Congress to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states  
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Andrew Jackson   winner of the 1828 presidential election who portrayed himself as a man of humble origins and started the Democratic-Republican political party  
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Democratic-Republican Party   a political party known for its support of strong state governments, founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1792  
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spoils system   the practice of winning candidates' rewarding their supporters with government jobs  
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Indian Removal Act   a law that forced Native American peoples east of the Mississippi River to relocated to lands in the West  
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Trail of Tears   the marches during which thousands of Cherokee peoples died while being forcibly removed from Georgia to the Indian Territory  
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