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30 Cards in this Set
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Changed the way goods were made in the late 1700's Began in Britain and New England |
The Industrial Revolution |
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Eli Whitney |
- Invented the Cotton Gin - Interchangeable Parts - Inadvertently increased the need for slave labor |
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Interchangeable Parts |
- created by Eli Whitney - decreased price of products |
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Cotton Gin |
- invented by Eli Whitney - increased cotton production - increased need for slave labor |
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Patent |
Gives legal right to inventions |
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Poor soil |
Made farming difficult in New England |
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Cities |
- industrial towns - grew as a result of industrial growth - made shops,museums, and libraries available - built near rivers and streams |
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Francis Cabot Lowell |
introduced Factory System to US |
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Lowell Girls |
Female workers in Francis Cabot Lowell's mill |
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Capital |
Money for investment for a company |
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Stock |
Shares of ownership in a company |
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National Road |
- started in Cumberland Maryland - went as forwent as Vandalia Illinios |
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Turnpike |
Toll Road |
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Locks |
Separate canal compartments where water levels are raised or lowered |
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Irish immigrants |
Provided labor to build the Erie Canal |
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Canals |
- Lowered cost of shipping goods - United country across distances |
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Robert Fulton |
- 1st commercial steamboat the Clermont |
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Sectionalism |
Pride in one's region |
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Missouri Compromise |
- Henry Clay proposed deal to preserve balance of powers between the Free and Slave States - Missouri becomes a Slave State and Maine becomes a Free State |
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Henry Clay |
-Speaker of the House - Missouri Compromise - known as the Great Compromiser - represents the west |
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John Quincy Adams |
Secretary of State under Monroe |
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John C. Calhoun |
- from South Carolina - believer in state sovereignty -disliked tariffs because they caused higher prices in the South |
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State Sovereignty |
- states rights - belief that states should not share similar goals and ideals for the common good of the federal government |
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Convention of 1818 |
Set official border between US and Canada |
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Rush-Bagot Treaty |
Agreement that provided the disarmament along the Canadian border No more forts |
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Andrew Jackson |
Invaded Spanish Florida in 1818 |
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Adams-Onis Treaty |
The US gets Florida the Spanish get to keep Texas |
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Monroe Doctrine |
states that the US will stop any new colonies in Western Hemisphere We would not interfere with existing colonies |
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Tarriff |
-Tax on imported goods - Protects American jobs - Northeast wants them - South does not |
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Cottage Industry |
Women working at home to earn money |
