chapter 11vocabulary Word Scramble
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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, found in 1826 |
interchangeable parts | a part that is exactly like another part. |
cotton gin | a machine invented in 1793 that cleaned cotton much faster and far more efficiently than human workers. |
spirituals | religious folk songs |
nationalism | a feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward one's country. |
American system | a plan introduced in 1815 to make the United States economicaly self-sufficient. |
sectionalism | the placing of the interests of one's own religion 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 Doctine | a policy of U.S. opposition to any European interference in the Western Monroe in 1823. |
Samuel Slater | sailed to the U.S. under a false name. |
Rabert Fulton | invented a steamboat that could move against the current or strong wind. |
Samuel F.B. Morse | 1st demonstrated his telegraph. This machine sent long and short pulses of electricity along a wire. |
Eli Whitney | invented a machine for cleaning cotton in 1793 |
Nat Turner | led the most famous rebellion in Virginia in 1831.(slave rebellion.) |
Henry Clay | a Representative from Kentucky, was a strong nationalists. |
Erie Canal | completed in 1825, this waterway connected New York City and Buffalo, New York. |
James Monroe | Democratic-Republican, won the presidency in 1816 with a large majority of electoral votes. |
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