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22 Cards in this Set
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Industrial Revolution
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The economic changes of the late 1700's when manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work
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Samuel Slater
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builder of the first waterpowered textile mill in America
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Factory system
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method of production using many workers and machines in one building
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Lowell Mills
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textile mills located in the factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts
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Robert Fulton
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inventor of American's first widely successful steamboat
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Peter Cooper
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builder of America's first successful steam-powered locomotive
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Samuel F.B. Morse
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inventor of the telegraph
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threshing machine
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a device that separates kernels of wheat from their husks
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mechanical reaper
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a device that cuts grain
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Cotton gin
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machine that made cleaning sees from cotton faster
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Eli Whitney
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inventor of the cotton gin
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Nat Turner
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leader of an 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia
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spirituals
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religious folk songs
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Henry Clay
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nationalist Representative from Kentucky
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American System
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plan introduced in 1815 to make American economically self-sufficient
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James Monroe
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fifth president of the United States, who proclaimed the Monroe Doctrine
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Erie Canal
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waterway that connected New York City with Buffalo, New York
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Missouri Compromise
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law enacted in 1820 to maintain balance of power between slave and free states
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Monroe Doctrine
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US policy opposing European interference in the Western Hemisphere
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nationalism
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a feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward one's country
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protective tariff
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a tax on imported goods that protects a nation's businesses from foreign competition
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sectionalism
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loyalty to the interests of one's own region or section of the country
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