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Chapter 11 All
U.S. History
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History
8th Grade
02/10/2011

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Samuel Slater
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Built first spinning mill in Rhode Island
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Industrial Revolution
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A time when factory machines replaced hand tools and large-scale manufacturing replaced farming as the main work
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Factory System
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System that brought many workers and machines together under one roof
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Lowell Mills
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Early factories in Massachusetts that made cloth
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Interchangeable Parts
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Parts that are exactly alike Eli Whitney
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Robert Fulton
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Inventor of the steamboat that would go against the current
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Samuel F.B. Morse
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Inventor of the telegraph
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John Deere
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Steel plow
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Cyrus McCormick
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Reaper/threshing machine
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Eli Whitney
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Inventor of the cotton gin
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Cotton Gin
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Invention that made the cotton-cleaning process easier
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Spirituals
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Religious folk songs sung by enslaved people
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Nat Turner
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Leader of a famous slave rebellion in 1831
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Nationalism
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The feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward a country
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Henry Clay
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Speaker of the House of Representatives and political leader from Kentucky
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American System
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Clay’s plan for economic development
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Erie Canal
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Water route between NYC and Buffalo NY
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James Monroe
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President elected in 1816
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Sectionalism
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Loyalty to the interests of one’s own region rather than to the nation as a whole
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Missouri Compromise
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Agreement that temporarily settled the issue of slavery in the territories
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Monroe Doctrine
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(written by James M.) Document warning European nations not to interfere in the Americas.
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