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goal 2.02, 2.03
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11th Grade
01/20/2011

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Noah Webster
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Spent 20 years on his dictionary, published in 1828, and helped standardize American Language.
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Neoclassical Architecture
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New greek and roman architecture, e.g. Capitol building.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Reminds Individuals, Sin Happens.
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Washington Irving
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Wrote Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
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Edgar Allen Poe
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Wrote "The Raven", "Fall of the Horse", and "The Tell Tale Heart".
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wrote "Self-Reliance" to promote the intelligent way that a man could handle his world.
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Henry David Thoreau
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Wrote "Walden", and "Civil Disobediance". Which helped lead to Abolition.
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Hudson River School of Arts
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-Landscape Paintings

-Encourage West movement

-expansion

-Sense of Pride

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James Fennimore Cooper
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Wrote "The Leather Stockings", and "The Last of the Mochians"
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Alexis De Tocqueville
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French Writer, Visited U.S. to study Penitentiary system.
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New nationalists
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Knicker Bocker School
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1st Industrial Revolution
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Social and economic Reorganization, machines replaced hand tools.

Factory production began.

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Cotton Gin
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Putting cotton in gin removed the seeds faster and more efficiently than slaves, increased cotton production, so increase in need for slaves.
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Cotton Kingdom
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Plantation System
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Cyrus McCormick
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Invented mechanical Reaper, Permitted one worker to do the work of five hands.
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Steel Plow
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Invented by John Deere, Slices through heavy soil and took less power to pull.
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Sewing Machine
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Natural place for the growth of industrialization was in producing clothing.
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Robert Fulton
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Got right to run Steamboats on rivers and profited from this state charter, which gravitated into a monopoly by charging steamboat operators for licenses to operate on various stretches of river.
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Samuel Morse
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Invented Morse code, not the Telegraph.
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Know-Nothings
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By Saying "I Know Nothing" it was an american party.
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Nativism
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Favoring of Native-born americans over immigrants
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John Deere
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Invented First Steel Plow.
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Erie Canal
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Strechted 363 miles; Linked Hudson River to Lake Erie (Atlantic ocean to Great Lakes)
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Eli Whitney
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Manufactured 10,000 muskets in just two years.
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