| A | B |
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| Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin and the idea of interchangeable parts |
| Robert Fulton | inventor of America's first widely successful steamboat |
| clipper ship | sailing ships invented in the 1800's that allowed ships to move at a great speed |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | improved textile mills by employing women to use a loom that could weave and spin under one roof; built a factory in Massachusetts |
| Morse code | combination of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphabet |
| John Deere | invented the steel plow |
| Cyrus McCormick | invented the mechanical reaper |
| Monroe Doctrine | U.S. policy opposing European Interference in the Western Hemisphere |
| Samuel Morse | invented the telegraph |
| mass production | efficient production of large numbers of identical goods |
| strike | refusal to work until employers met union demands |
| Rhode Island System | factory system which hired families and divided factory work into simple tasks |
| shorter hours, better working conditions, better wages | 3 things trade unions asked for |
| Missouri Compromise | laws enacted in 1820 to maintain balance of power between slave and free states |
| Nat Turner | led a slave revolt in 1831 |
| Henry Clay | nationalist representative from Kentucky who thought that every country should become as independent as possible |
| Harriet Jacobs | runaway slave who publihed a book about her life experiences |
| Industrial Revolution | period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production due to an increased demand for manufactured goods and a need to compete with Britain |
| Cotton Gin | machine invented by Eli Whitney that allowed slaves to clean ten times more cotton than cleaning it by hand |
| could clean cotton more quickly | reason the cotton gin made growing cotton more profitable |
| higher wages than paid in other jobs | reason women wanted to work in the Lowell mills |
| trade unions | formed by workers to improve working conditions |
| Samuel Slater | immigrated to the U.S. from Britain and brought Britain's advancement of textile mills to the United States; builder of the first water-powered textile mill in America |
| Peter Cooper | invented the 1st steam powered locomotove(Tom Thumb) in the United States; |
| SOS or Save Our Ship | meaning of dot dot dot, dash dash dasdh, dot dot dot in Morse Code |
| cotton | most important crop before 1860 |
| Isaac Singer | made improvements to the original sewing machine and made a fortune selling them |
| King Cotton and Cotton is King | political slogans used in the south |
| Erie Canal | waterway that connected New York City with Buffalo, New York |
| American System | plan introduced by James Madison to make America economically self sufficient |
| threshing machine | device that separates kernels of wheat from their husks |
| transportation revolution | time period that occured at the same time as the Industrial Revolution that caused a wider distribution of goods and services |
| Lowell stystem | factory system that hired young single women and performed weaving and spinning in one mill |
| spirituals | religious folk songs |
| nationalism | feeling of pride in one's country |
| Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin, interchangeable parts |
| factory system | method of production using many workers and machines in one building |
| protective tariff | tax on imported goods that protects a nation's businesses from foreign competition |
| short-staple or green-seed cotton | type of cotton that grew best in the south |
| people left farms for factories; women and children worked outside of home; people bought more manufactured goods | 3 ways the Industrial Revolution changed the way Americans lived and worked. |
| sectionalism | loyalty to the interests of one's own region or section of the country |
