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| Eli Whitney | Inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts. |
| agrarian | A person who favors an agricultural way of life and government policies that support agricultural interests. |
| plantation | A large area of privately owned land where crops were grown through the labor of workers, usually slaves, who lived on the land. |
| cotton gin | A hand operated machine that cleans seeds and other unwanted material from cotton. |
| Industrial Revolution | The dramatic change in economies brought about by the use of machines to do work formerly done by hand by skilled craftspeople. |
| industrialist | A person whose wealth comes from the ownership of industrial businesses and who favors a government policy that supports industry. |
| "wage slaves" | What southerners called factory workers in the North. |
| Robert Fulton | Inventor of the steamboat which allowed for the shipment of goods up and down major rivers. |
| immigrant | A person who moves from one country to another. |
| discrimination | unequal treatment based on a person's race, gender, religion, place of birth, or other arbitrary characteristics. |
| segregation | the social separation of groups of people, especially by race. |
