Industrial Rev. 5
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| textile | cloth or fabric
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| entreprenuer | a person who starts his or her own business rather than working for someone else
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| interchangeable parts | identical parts that can replace each other
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| mass production | making goods in large quantities, using interchangeable parts and an assembly line
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| productivity | how fast goods and services are produced by a person, machine, or group
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| abolitionist | an antislavery activist (against slavery)
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| discrimination | treatment of people based on a class or category rather than on individual merit
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| Underground Railroad | a secret system that helped runaway slaves escape to the free states or Canada
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| tariff | a tax charged by a government on imported goods
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| states' rights | powers possessed by state governments
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| sectionalism | loyalty to local and regional interests and customs (one part of the country)
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| Samuel Slater | opened the first cotton-spinning textile mill or factory in the United States
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| Francis Cabot Lowell | an entrepreneur who built a mill near Boston
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| Eli Whitney | invented a cotton engine or gin that used wire teeth to remove seeds
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| Robert Fulton | invented the steamboat which could travel against currents
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| William Lloyd Garrison | began printing an antislavery newspaper called "The Liberator"
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| Fredrick Douglas | well known black abolitionist; had escaped slavery; writer and speaker
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| Sojourner Truth | important female abolitionist who also spoke in favor of women's rights; born into slavery
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| Sarah and Angelina Grimke | of South Carolina saw the cruelty of slavery from the point of view as the daughters of a slave owner; as adults moved north and spoke out against slavery
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| Harriet Tubman | escaped from slavery and was the most famous conductor on the "Underground Railroad"; returned 19 times to lead others to freedom
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| George Mason | slave owner from Virginia, called slavery "national sin"
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| Nat Turner | led a rebellion against slave owners; caused southern states to pass laws to control both enslaved and free blacks
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| John C. Calhoun | southerner who argued against tariffs; Vice President in 1828; argued for States' Rights
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