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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Industrial Revolution | Period of dynamic changes in manufacturing and productionthat began in Britain in the mid-1700's |
| National Road | cumberland road; first federal roadway |
| Erie Canal | Major canal that linked the Hudson Bay with Lake Erie; completed in 1825 |
| Market Revolution | Creation of profitable national markets during the 1800s; brought about by new transportation systems and regional specialization. |
| Factory System | system that cuts costs and increases output by relying on machines to help do everything under one roof |
| Lowell Girls | single women who worked in textile mills and lived in company owned boardinghouses in Lowell, Massachusetts, and other textile towns in the early 1800's. |
| Nativists | people who favored native born Americans over foreign born. they viewed immigrants as politically corupt and socially inferior. They blamed newcomers for slum conditions. |
| Second Great Awakening | Evangelical religions movement that spread through the United states beginning in the early 1800s |
| Transcendentalism | belief that people can rise above material things in life to reach a higher level of understanding; popular among New England writers and thinkers in the mid 1800s. |
| Prohibition | Complete ban on the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcohol |
| Seneca Falls Convention | (1848) first national women's right convention; site where the Declaration of Sentiments was written |
| Donner Party | (1846-47) Group of travelers to California who were stranded in the Sierra Nevada during the winter; some 42 members of the party died. |
| Temperance Movement | A social reform effort begun in the mid-1800's to encourage people to limit alcohol consumption. |
| Mormons | Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints |
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