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| elector | a person selected to vote for the President and Vice President |
| impressment | the act of forcing a person in to public service, especially into a navy |
| embargo | a government order preventing trade with another country |
| nationalism | pride in one's country |
| doctrine | set of beliefs |
| industry | the making or producing of goods by businesses and factories |
| cotton gin | a machine that separates cotton from its seeds |
| Eli Whitney | United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825) |
| Gabriel Prosser | planned a slave revolt in Virginia in 1800 that failed before it could get underway; persecuted and executed |
| interchangeable parts | a part that can be used in place of another part in manufactured products |
| Lewis and Clark | Sent on an expedition by Jefferson to gather information on the United States' new land and map a route tot he Pacific. They kept very careful maps and records of this new land acquired from the Louisiana Purchase. |
| Louisiana Purchase | territory in the western United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million |
| mass production | a method of making large numbers of goods quickly and cheaply |
| Monroe Doctrine | a statement of foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs within the United States or in the development of other countries in the Western Hemisphere |
| Nat Turner | United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia |
| overseer | a person who watches over and directs the work of others |
| Sacajawea | a Native American woman who proved an indispensable guide to Lews and Clark during their 1804-1806 expedition. She showed the men how to forage for food and helped them maintain good relations with tribes in the Northwest. |
| textile | woven cloth |
| Thomas Jefferson | elected president in 1800, a member of the Democratic-Republic party |
| War of 1812 | a war (1812-1814) between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France. England was impressing American soldiers to fight against France. |
| Industrial Revolution | the transformation form an agricultural to an industrial nation |
