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25 Cards in this Set
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Robert Fulton |
Designed the first commercially successful steamboat - the Clermont |
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Samuel slater |
Opened the first water-powered textile mill. He later built more factories along New England ribers. The factories enforced the "family system" |
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Francis Cabot owell |
A Boston merchants developed another industrial system in Massachusetts he organized the company called the Boston associates this system employed young single women aka the Lowell girls |
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Eli Whitney |
improve efficiency in factories manufacturers design products with interchangeable parts |
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Elias Howe |
Google it |
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Isaac Singer |
Google it |
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Samuel Morse |
In 1837 American Samuel FB Morse invented the electric telegraph which allows electrical pulses to travel long distances on metal wires as coded signals by 1860 the nation had 50,000 miles of telegraph lines |
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John Deere |
Google it |
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Cyrus McCormick |
Cyrus Hall McCormick (February 15, 1809 – May 13, 1884) was an Inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of International Harvester Company in 1902. |
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Nativists |
policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants |
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Workingman's Party |
Example of a labor union |
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James Monroe |
Won re-election in 1820 by receiving almost all of the elctoral college votes |
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Henry Clay |
One of the leading advocates of this new economic nationalism he regarded the protective tariff as part of a larger ambitious federal program he called the "American system" |
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National Road |
Made of crushed rock, this was the country's lone decent route |
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Erie Canal |
Completed in 1825 it ran 363 miles across New York State from Lake Erie to the Hudson River |
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Tarrf of 1816 |
Congress impose this tariff on imports designed to protect American industry |
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Turnpikes |
Roads with tolls |
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Adams-Onis Treaty |
Treaty with America and Spain made in 1821 |
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Missouri Compromise |
In 1820 after a long and better debate Henry Clay craft at the Missouri Compromise the Northern District of Massachusetts with enter the union as the Free State of Maine to balance the admission of Missouri as a slave state |
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Monroe Doctrine |
This policy responded to threats by European powers including France to help Spain recover Latin American colony of the had declared their independence |
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The election of 1824 |
For leading Democratic Republicans hope to replace Monroe in the White House these included John Quincy Adams William Crawford Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay this election race produced no clear winner when Jackson one more popular votes than did Adams but neither one of maturity of the electoral votes thus making the House of Representatives having to determine the outcome of the presidential election |
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The nullifification Crisis |
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Worcester V. Georgia |
The supreme court makes its ruling that the state of Georgia did not have the power to remove the indians but they did it anyways |
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Trail of tears |
Indian removal from georgia |
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Spoil System |
Giving out government jobs |
