SS Ch 14
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zaggadoodle on June 3, 2012
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This set is on the Industrial Revolution.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Judicial review | The supreme court has the last say in interpreting the constitution. |
| Monroe Doctrine | A statement of foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs within the United States or in the development of other countries in the Western Hemisphere. |
| American System | Created by Henry Clay - protective tariff, strong national bank and a network of roads and canals. |
| National Road | First national road building project funded by Congress. It made travel and transportation of goods much easier because it was one continuous road that was in good condition. |
| Erie Canal | waterway that ran from Albany to Buffalo, New York |
| Noah Webster | American writer who wrote textbooks to help the advancement of education. He also wrote a dictionary which helped standardize the American language. |
| John Marshall | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court appointed by John Adams |
| John C. Calhoun | Andrew Jackson's Vice President |
| Henry Clay | United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states. |
| Industrial Revolution | Change in technology, brought about by improvements in machinery and by use of steam power. |
| standardization | Using interchangeable parts. |
| 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. |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | Visited England and returned to the US to open a mill in Mass. That brought spining and weaving in one building in a town named after him |
| Robert Fulton | American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship. |
| Henry Miller Shreve | a river captain and steamboat builder who helped clear the Red River so people could travel easier. |
| Waltham | This was the original name for Lowell, Massachusetts along the Merrimack River. Renamed Lowell in honor of who built the first factory system at this town. |
| Soil Exhaustion | is when the soil has lost nutrients needed by the plant. |
| cotton gin | a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers. |
| Eli Whitney | United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin. |
| Nat Turner | United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia. |
| New Orleans | Where about 450 slaves gathered together after a plantation revolt. |
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