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| canal | a channel that is dug across land and filled with water. |
| corduroy roads | roads made of sawed-off logs, laid side by side |
| turnpikes | toll roads |
| Daniel Boone | led a group of men that cleared a new route to the West called the Wilderness Road |
| Nat Turner | led the most famous slave revolt in U.S. history in 1831. |
| spirituals | religious folk songs that blended biblical themes with realities of slavery |
| slave codes | laws that controlled every aspect of the slaves lives |
| cotton gin | a simple machine developed by Eli Whitney that used a spiked cylinder to remove seeds from cotton fibers. |
| discrimination | the denial of equal rights or equal treatment to certain groups of people. |
| famine | widespread starvation |
| telegraph | a device that used electrical signals to send messages quickly over long distances |
| urbanization | the growth of cities due to movement of people from rural areas to cities |
| interchangeable parts | identical pieces that could be assembled quickly by unskilled workers. |
| mass production | the rapid manufacture of large numbers of identical objects |
| capitalists | people who invest capital, or money, in a business to earn a profit |
| Industrial Revolution | A change in the 1700s where machines took the place of hand tools |
