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Chapter 11 Creating America
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8th Grade
01/21/2009

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1. Samuel Slater
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He built his first water-powered textile mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1790.
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2. Industrial Revolution
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Machine-made goods produced in factories replaced hand-made goods produced in homes.
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3. Robert Fulton
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He built a steamboat called the Clermont in 1807.
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4. Eli Whitney
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He invented the cotton gin in 1793 and developed the concept of interchangeable parts in 1801.
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5. cotton gin
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Invented by Whitney in 1793, this machine cleaned cotton faster and resulted in the expansion of slavery.
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6. Nat Turner
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In 1831, he led the bloodiest slave revolt in Virginia's history resulting in harsher slave laws.
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7. nationalism
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Unifying feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward your country; rose greatly after the War of 1812.
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8. sectionalism
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The loyalty of people to their section or region of the country rather than to the nation as a whole.
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9. Missouri Compromise
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Henry Clay's plan passed in 1820 where Missouri was created as a slave state, while Maine was created as a free state in order to keep the balance of power between slave & free states in Congress.
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10. Monroe Doctrine
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Foreign policy statement issued by Pres. Monroe in 1823 which marked the U.S. as a world power & protector of Latin America
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