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| Samuel Slater | built the first successful water-powered textile mill in America |
| Industrial Revolution | in later 18th century Britain, factory machines began replacing hand tools and manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work |
| factory system | a method of production that brought many workers and machines together into one building |
| Lowell mills | textile mills in the village that employed farm girls who lived in company-owned boardinghouses |
| interchangeable parts | a part that is exactly like another part |
| Robert Fulton | invented the steamboat that could move against the current or a strong wind |
| Samuel F.B. Morse | in 1837, he first demonstrated his telegraph |
| Eli Whitney | in 1793, invented a machine for cleaning cotton, the cotton gin |
| cotton gin | a machine invented in 1793 that cleaned cotton much faster and far more efficiently than human workers |
| spirituals | religious folk songs that often contained coded messages about a planned escape or an owner's enexpected return |
| Nat Turner | led the most famous slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831 |
| nationalism | a feeling of pride, loyality, and protectiveness toward one's country |
| Henry Clay | strong nationalist from Kentucky who had a plan to strengthen the country and unify its different regions |
| American System | a plan introduced in 1815 to make the US economically seft-sufficient |
| Erie Canal | completed in 1825. this waterway connected New York City and Buffalo, New York |
| James Monroe | Democratic-Republican president in 1816 who promoted national unity by strengthening the federal government |
| sectionalism | the placing of the interests of one's own region ahead of the interests of the nation as a whole |
| Missouri Compromise | a series of laws enacted in 1820 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states |
| Monroe Doctrine | a policy of US opposition to any European interference in the Western Hemisphere, announced by President Monroe in 1823 |
