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Ch 8
The Growth of National Economy
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History
10th Grade
10/22/2014

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Industrial Revolution
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Effort beginning in Great Britian in the late 1700s, to increase production by using machines powered by sources other than humans or animals
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Interchangeable Parts
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A system of manufacturing in which all parts are made to an exact standard for easy mass-assembly
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Cotton Gin
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Machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fiber
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Patent
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A license that gives an inventor the exclusive right to make, use or sell an invention for a set period of time
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Market Revolution
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Shift from a home-based, often agricultural, economy to one based on money and the buying and selling of goods
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Manufacturing
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Making of goods by machinery
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Centralized
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Concentrated in one place
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Free Enterprise System
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Economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods
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Specialization
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In production, a system in which each worker performs a single part of an entire process
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Investment Capital
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Money that a business spends in hopes of future gains
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Bank Note
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Piece of paper that a bank issues to its customers and that can be exchanged for gold or silver coin
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Section
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A geographic region
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Rural
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Pertaining to the countryside
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Urban
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Relating to a city
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Industrialization
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The growth of industry
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Tenement
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A low-cost apartment building that often has poor standards of sanitation, safety, and comfort and is designed to house as many families as possible
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Strike
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A work stoppage intended to force an employer to certain demands, as in the demand for higher wages
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Labor Union
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Organization of workers formed to protect the interest of its members
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Cotton Belt
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Turner's Rebellion
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Darmouth College v. Woodward
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McCulloch v. Maryland
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Gibbons v. Odgen
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Monroe Doctrine
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American System
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Patronage
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Spoils System
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Tariff of 1828
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Nullify
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States' Rights
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Secede
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Indian Removal Act
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Trail of Tears
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Black Hawk War
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Second Seminole War
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