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Growth and Expansion

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show The change from an agricultural society to one based on industry which began in Great Britain and spread to the United States around 1800s  
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capitalism   show
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capital   show
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show the freedom of private business to operate competitively for profit with minimal government regulations  
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show The application of scientific discoveries to practical use  
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cotton gin   show
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factory system   show
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show in a canal, an enclosure with gates at each end used in raising or lowering boats as the pass from level to level  
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patent   show
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interchangeable parts   show
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turnpike   show
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show an artificial waterway  
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show policies devised by Henry Clay to stimulate the growth of industry that had three parts; (1) a protective tariff, (2) a program of internal improvements, (3) and a national bank  
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show An important inventor from this time; that invented the cotton gin  
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Erie Canal   show
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show He became our 5th president, toured the nation and was an experienced/dignified politician  
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show An era when there was very little political problems and there was a sense of national unity.  
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The Missouri Compromise   show
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show The United States gained East Florida, and Spain also abandoned all claims to the West Florida  
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show Created in 1823, this stated that the U.S. would not interfere with any existing European colonies but would oppose any new ones.  
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show loyalty to their region of the country rather than the country as a whole  
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show the idea that states have autonomous power or the rights to govern themselves  
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Robert Fulton   show
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show Governor of New York that was responsible for construction of Erie Canal, that would connect the Hudson River (in NY) to Lake Erie.  
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show Maryland was trying to tax the national bank; the Supreme Court ruled that federal law was stronger than the state law, and that the tax was interfering with the bank and its constitutional powers, making the tax unconstitutional.  
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Gibbons v. Ogden   show
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