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| Industrial Revolution | a time when factory machines replaced hand tools and large scale manufacturing replaced farming as the main work |
| factory system | a system that brought workers and machines together under one roof |
| Samuel Slater | built the first spinning mill in Rhode Island |
| Lowell mills | early factories in Massachusetts that made cloth |
| interchangeable parts | parts that are alike |
| Robert Fulton | inventor of the steamboat |
| Samuel Morse | inventor of the telegraph |
| Eli Whitney | inventor of the cotton gin |
| cotton gin | invention that made the cotton cleaning process easier |
| sprituals | religious folk songs sung by enslaved people |
| Nat Turner | a leader of a famous slave rebellion in 1831 |
| nationalism | the feeling of pride,loyalty,and protectiveness toward a country |
| Henry Clay | Speaker of the House of Representatives and political leader from Kentucky |
| American System | Clay's plan for economic development |
| James Monroe | president elected in 1816 |
| sectionalism | loyalty to the interests of one's own region rather than to the nation as a whole |
| Missouri Compromise | an agreement that temporarily settled the issue of slavery in the territories |
| Monroe Doctrine | a warning to European nations not to interfere in the Americas |
