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31 Cards in this Set
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Nat Turner's Rebelliion
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Nat Turner led a group of slaves in a revolt against slaveowners
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Samuel Slater
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memorized the deisgn of textile mill machines and came to the United States to build them
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Gibbons v. Ogden
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-The principal of federal law over state law was upheld
-Gibbons was allowed to operate his steamboat in New York |
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Transportation Revolution
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a period of rapid improvement in the speed, ease, and cost of transportation
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Yeoman
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the name given for owners of small farms
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Sammuel Morse
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Invented the telegraph
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Spirituals
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emotional Chrisitian songs that were used to express religious belief
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Cyrus McCormick
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developed a mechanical reaper that cut wheat more quickly
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Eli Whitney
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-came up with the idea to use interchangeable parts to mass produce guns for the US
-invented the cotton gin |
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Issac Singer
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improved the sewing machine and help make it popular
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Cotton Gin
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pulled the seeds from the cotton
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Industrial Revolution
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a period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production
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Telegraph
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a device that sends and receives pulses of electrical current through a wire
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technology
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the tools and machinery used to produce goods
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cotton belt
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an area from South Carolina to East Texas
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Morse Code
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different combinations of short and long pulses that represent numbers and letters
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John Deere
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Designed a steel plow
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Tredegar Iron Works
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the only large iron factory in the South
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Francis Cabot Lowell
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built a water powered loom where the thread and the whole cloth was made under one roof
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Lowell System
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the practice of hiring and housing unmarried women in factories
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Scientific Agriculture
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the use of scientific methods to improve crop production
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Planters
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large scale farmers who held more then 20 slaves
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Robert Fulton
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made a steamboat that was able to travel successfully on rivers
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Trade Unions
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orgnaizations that work to improve working conditions
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Joeseph R. Anderson
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-was the owner of Tredegar Iron Works
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mass production
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the making of large numbers of identical goods
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Rhode Island System
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when entire families are hired by a factory in hopes of attracting and keeping people
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textiles
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cloth
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Folktales
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oral stories
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Nat Turner
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A slave from Virginia that believed god had called on him to end slavery
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Strike
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the refusal of employees to work until employers meet there demands
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