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Era of good feelings
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11/13/2012

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Era of good feelings
Definition

after war of 1812.

begins with president James Monroe. lack of political parties.

Term
naturalism
Definition

built around the old puritan idea-

a destiny to expand from sea to sea - opposed by regionalism.

Term
industrial revolution
Definition
an era of replacing human and animal power with machine power. machines take over for people.
Term
Market Revolution
Definition

change of the way we sell items.

becoming a consuming society- stores open -no longer have to make.

Term
james watt
Definition
came up with the fisrt practical steam engine in 1775.
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steam engine
Definition
replaces man and animal power with machine engines, produced by using steam.
Term
samuel slater
Definition

British factory manager dequests himself as a farmer to come to america- goes to new england- sets up factories with power.

textile factories(cloth)

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Robert Fulton
Definition

arms will work for anyone

napoleon-submarine

british-under water mine

America- invents first steamship.

Term
steamship
Definition
a ship that can go upstream. no longer depending on wind power.
Term
Eli Whitney
Definition

American inventor

invents the cotton gin

makes no money

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cotton gin
Definition

pulls the cotton fibers off the seeds.

no longer need to separate by hand.

makes slavery valuable.

Term
mass production
Definition

eli whitney

decreases the amount of a product

Term
american system
Definition

henry clay

pushes 3 parts

bank

tariffs

internal improvements

Term
national road
Definition
americans first modern highway system
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canal
Definition
man made waterway
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railroad
Definition

uses steam engine to cross over land with no water.

a person can move with no human or animal power.

Term
seminole war
Definition

consists of renegade whites- runaway slaves

creeks move to florida

andrew jackson vs. seminoles

Term
monroe doctrine
Definition

U.S. will not tolerate any New European colonies

U.S. is dominate power in the new world.

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Abolitionism
Definition
advocating the end of slavery
Term

Missouri Compromise

(1820)

Definition

south getting worried what north is saying about getting rid of slavery.

eatablishes everything south of missouri as a slave state- and above as non-slave states

Negotiated by henry clay

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