| Term | Definition |
|---|
| what connects New York to the midwest | erie canal |
| what in the missouri compromise | maine was against slavery and missouri was for slaver. Louisiana territory would be free land |
| what did the nativists want | they wanted to preserve the country and there should only be white Protestants. laws limited slavery |
| who developed a system of interchangeable parts | Eli Whitney |
| who opened a textile mill that combined spinning and weaving | Francis cabot lowell |
| what industry did the industrial revolution begin in | textile |
| what did robert fulton invent | steamboat |
| machines gradually took the place of many hand tools | industrial revolution |
| a system that brings workers and machinery together | factory system |
| people who invest money in a business | capitalists |
| identical pieces that could be assembled quickly by unskilled workers | mass production |
| identical pieces that could be assembled quickly by unskilled workers | interchangeable parts |
| the growth of cities due to movement of people from rural areas to cities | urbanization |
| who invented the telegraph | samuel F.B. morse |
| widespread starvation | famine |
| denial of equal rights or treatment to a certain group of people | discrimination |
| used a spiked cylinder to remove seeds from cotton fibers | cotton gin |
| what did nat turner do | lead led the most famous slave revolts |
| toll roads | turnpike |
| roads make of sawed-off logs laid side by side | corduroy roads |
| a channel that is dug across land and filled with water | canal |
| what were the workers in the lowell mills called | lowell girls |
| who brought new spinning technology from britain to the US | sam slater |
| what were the problems in northern cities | bad sewage system, poor water, diseases, and fires |
| who built a sewing machine | elias howe in 1846 |
| who invented the mechanical reaper | cyrus McCormic in 1844 |
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