Ch11 Vocab Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Samuel Slater | Englishman who sailed to the United States under a false name illegally to escape life as a textile worker. He then built the first water-powered textile mill in America. |
Industrial Revolution | When factory tools replaced hand tools and manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work. |
Factory System | Brought many workers and machines under one roof. |
Lowell Mills | Textile mills employed farm girls who lived in company-owned boarding houses |
Interchangeable Parts | Parts that are exactly alike |
Robert Fulton | Invented a steamboat that could move against the wind or a current. |
Samuel F. B. Morse | Invented the telegraph. Demonstrated his invention in 1837. |
Eli Whitney | invented a machine for cleaning cotton in 1793 |
cotton gin | another name for Eli Whitney's cotton cleaning machine |
spirituals | religious folk songs |
Nat Turner | led a famous rebellion of slaves in Virginia 1831. |
nationalism | feeling of pride,loyalty, and protectiveness toward your country |
Henry Clay | Representative from Kentucky whom was a strong nationalist. |
American System | Plan that Henry Clay supported that consisted of three steps.To establish a protective tariff,establish a national bank, and to improve the nation's transportation systems. |
Erie Canal | Created water route between New York City and Buffalo, New York. |
James Monroe | won the presidency in 1816. |
sectionalism | loyalty to your own section of the nation. |
Missouri Compromise | kept the balance of power in the Senate between the slave states ans free states. |
Monroe Doctrine | said that Americans were closed to further colonization. Also stated that the U.S. would stay out of European affairs. |
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