Chapter 11 Vocab Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Samuel Slater | built the first successful water-powered textile mill in America |
Industrial Revolution | factory machines replaced hand tools, and large-scale manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work |
factory system | brought many workers and machines together under one roof |
Lowell mills | first textile mill to employ farm girls who lived in company-owned boardinghouses |
interchangeable parts | parts that are exactly alike |
Robert Fulton | in 1807, he invented the steamboat |
Samuel F. B. Morse | in 1837, first demonstrated his telegraph |
Eli Whitney | he first invented the cotton gin in 1793 and in 1801, invented the idea of interchangeable parts |
cotton gin | made the cotton-cleaning process far more efficient |
spirituals | religious folk songs |
Nat Turner | led the most famous slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831 |
nationalism | a feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward your country |
Henry Clay | a representative from Kentucky who was a strong nationist |
American System | a 3 part plan promoted by Henry Clay 1. establish a protective tariff 2. establish a national bank 3. improve the country's transportation systems |
Erie Canal | completed in 1825, created a water route between NYC and Buffalo, NY |
James Monroe | a Democratic-Republican who won presidency in 1816 becoming the 5th president of the US |
sectionalism | loyalty to the interests of your own region or section of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole |
Missouri Compromise | passed in 1820, allowed Maine to enter the US as a free state but Missouri to be a slave state and prohibited slavery above the 36 30' parallel |
Monroe Doctrine | a policy of US opposition to any European interference in the Western Hemisphere, announced by President Monroe in 1823 |
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