social studies test voc
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Samuel Slater | He memorized the way that the British made machines and he brought the idea to America. He made our first cotton spinning machine. |
| Industrial Revolution | factory machines replaced hand tools,large scales of manufacturing in the 1800`s. |
| Factory System | a method of production that brought many workers and machines together into one building |
| Lowell Mills | textile mill located in a factory town in Massachusetts that employed farm girls who lived in company-owned boardinghouses |
| Interchangeable parts | parts thatare exactly alike,Eli Whitney. |
| Robert Fulton | American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815) |
| Samuel F.B Morse | invented the telegraph |
| Eli Whitney | United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825) |
| Cotten Gin | a machine that removed seeds from cotten fiber |
| Spirituals | religious folk songs that slaves used to communicate |
| Nat Turner | United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia |
| Nationalism | love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it |
| Henry Clay | United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852) |
| American System | an economic regime pioneered by Henry Clay which created a high tariff to support internal improvements such as road-building. This approach was intended to allow the United States to grow and prosper by themselves This would eventually help America industrialize and become an economic power. |
| Erie Canal | an artificial waterway connecting the Hudson river at Albany with Lake Erie at Buffalo |
| James Monroe | He was the fifth President of the United States. He is the author of the Monroe Doctrine. Proclaimed that the Americas should be closed to future European colonization and free from European interference in sovereign countries' affairs. It further stated the United States' intention to stay neutral in European wars |
| Sectionalism | a partiality for some particular place |
| Missouri Compromise | an agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories |
| Monroe Doctrine | an American foreign policy opposing interference in the Western hemisphere from outside powers |
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