Chapter 6

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tenement

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a poorly built, cramped, and unsafe apartment building; has few windows

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Iroquois Confederacy

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union of six Native American groups

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Samuel Slater

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father of the American Industrial Revolution; built first textile mill in 1793

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minutemen

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patriots who promised to be ready to fight at a minute's notice

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migrate

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to move from one place to another

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Lexington

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a town in eastern Massachusetts; site of one of the first battles of the American Rovolution

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Boston Tea Party

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Americans, dressed as Native Americans, boarded a British ship and threw thousands of pounds of tea overboard as a protest

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Industrial Revolution

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late 1700s to middle 1800s when power-driven tools replaced hand tools; began in England

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American Revolution

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the war between the thirteen colonies and Great Britain

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Haiwatha

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Mohawk leader who formed the Iroquois Confederacy

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import

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goods bought from another country

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Hannah Wilkinson Slater

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invented a new way to spin thread into cotton sewing thread

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Great Law of Peace

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Iroquois government where "Their hearts shall be full of peace and good will, and their minds full of yearning for welfare of the people"

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export

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to sell goods to another country

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telegraph

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machine that sends electrical signals through wires; allowed people to communicate over long distance

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sweatshop

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clothing factory where temperatures reached 120 degrees, workers worked 12 - 14 hour days at extremely low pay

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longhouse

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rectangular building made of wood and bark of elm trees; Iroquois home

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Boshwash

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the area in the northeast between Boston and Washington DC; a megalopolis

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megalopolis

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a group of cities so close together that they can be thought of as one huge community

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invention

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something that is created for the first time

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clan

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group of families who share the same ancestor

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George Washington

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leader of the colonists' army; became first president of the US

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Samuel Morse

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invented telegraph

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Boston Massacre

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attack that killed many colonists who couldn't defend themselves

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Patriot

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colonist who protested British ruls

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Ellis Island

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in New York Harbor; the first stop of immigrants who crossed the Atlantic

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terrorism

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the use of fear and violence to gain political goals

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sachem

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council member

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Paul Revere

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rode to Lexington to alert the Minutemen that the British were coming