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US History - National and Regional Growth
Notes from chapter 11 of McDougle Littell US History
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8th Grade
03/06/2013

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Factory system
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Bringing machines and workers together under one building. 

*This alllowed higher, faster production rates

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Cotton Gin
Definition

This cleaned the cotton

*Instead of making 1-3 pounds of usable cotton a day they could make 50-80

 *Made slavery profitable once more and incresed demand for slaves

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Lowell Mills
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First Mills to use women as workers.

*Increased productivity

*Gave more people jobs

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Interchangeable parts
Definition

Parts are built exactly alike

*Invented by Eli Whitney

*You can fix or make things faster

*Take no specalized skill from a worker to make 

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Robert Fulton
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Invented the steam engine

*Used trains and boats to travel and transport materials

*Fast

*You could build a facotory anywhere now

 

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Peter Cooper
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Invented the first steam train

*Could take goods to places that boats couldn't reach

*You could build a factory anywhere

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Eli Whitney
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Invented interchangeable parts and the cotton gin

 

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Samuel F.B. Morse
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Invented the telegraph
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John Deere
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Invented the steele plow to farmers could till new ground in the midwest now
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Samuel Slater
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Memorized and stole factory plans from England then came to America and started the first factory
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American system
Definition
  1. Protective tariffs- taxed European goods, ecouraging Americans to buy American goods
  2. National Bank- promoting one currency that would be the same in every state
  3. Improve transportation- need to improve roads to move goods from town to town
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Sectionalism
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Loyalty to a region or section of the country
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Nationalism
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The strong pride, loyalty, and protectiveness to the nation
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Missouri Compromise
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Missouri became a slave state and to balance it back out to 14 - 14 Maine became a Free State.
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Monroe Doctrine
Definition
Stay out of our business and we'll stay out of your business.
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Slavery
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Cotton became the cash crop in the south. Farms stoped growing food crops. Extended land into the west to grow more cotton.
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Adams-Onis Treaty
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We bought Florida from Spain
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49th Parallel
Definition
The boarder of Canada and the Us in the west
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The events that contributed most to the Industrial Revolution
Definition
The creation if factories, interchnageable parts, and the steam engine
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