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Ch:11 Vocab

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Samuel Slater   Was an early English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution and the American Factory System.".  
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Industrial Revolution   The rapid development of industry that occurred in Britain in the late 18th and 19th centuries, brought about by the introduction of machinery.  
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Factory System   The factory first adopted in England at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century and later spread abroad. It replaced the putting-out system.  
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Lowell Mills   Refers to the many mills that operated in the city Lowell, Massachusetts during the 19th century and early 20th centuries.  
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Interchangeable Parts   Parts (components) that are, for practical purposes, identical. They are made to specifications that ensure that they are so nearly identical that they will fit into any assembly of the same order.  
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Robert Fulton   Was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat called Clermont.  
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Samuel F.B. Morse   A United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code.  
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Eli Whitney   An American Inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.  
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Cotton Gin   A machine for separating cotton from its seeds.  
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Spirituals   A religious song of a kind associated with black Christians of the southern U.S.  
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Nat Turner    
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Nationalism    
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Henry Clay    
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American System    
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Erie Canal    
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James Monroe    
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Sectionalism    
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Missouri Compromise    
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Monroe Doctrine    
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