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Chapter 11 Test Review

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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.
Bringing Cotton production to the U.S
"If thou canst do this thing, I invite thee to come to Rhode Island, and have the credit of introducing cotton manufacture into America"... According to the quote, what benefit would the person who introduces cotton manufacture gain?
Census
the official count of a population
Eli Whitney
United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)
Monopoly
Complete control of a product or business by one person or group
Cotton Gin
a machine that removed seeds from cotton fiber
Missouri Compromise
"Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state therefore keeping an even balance of power in the Senate.
Robert Fulton
designed the Clermont
Interchangeable parts
Identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufacturing
Lowell Girls
factory workers in Lowell's mill
Free Enterprise (Definition)
Economy where people are free to buy, sell, and trade whatever they want.
Patent
Sole legal right to an invention and its profits.
Monroe Doctrine
1823 - Declared that Europe should not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere and that any attempt at interference by a European power would be seen as a threat to the U.S. It also declared that a New World colony which has gained independence may not be recolonized by Europe. (It was written at a time when many South American nations were gaining independence). Only England, in particular George Canning, supported the Monroe Doctrine. Mostly just a show of nationalism, the doctrine had no major impact until later in the 1800s.
How nearly perfect the government is
"If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of growth so rapid--so gigantic; of a people so prosperous and happy. In [thinking about] what we shall have to perform, the heart of every citizen must expand with joy when he reflects how near our Government has approached to perfection".--from James Monroe's inaugural address, March 1817. In the passage, what does Monroe say should give American citizens joy?
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