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| Spent 20 years on his dictionary, published in 1828, and helped standardize American Language. |
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| Neoclassical Architecture |
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| New greek and roman architecture, e.g. Capitol building. |
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| Reminds Individuals, Sin Happens. |
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| Wrote Legend of Sleepy Hollow. |
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| Wrote "The Raven", "Fall of the Horse", and "The Tell Tale Heart". |
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| Wrote "Self-Reliance" to promote the intelligent way that a man could handle his world. |
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| Wrote "Walden", and "Civil Disobediance". Which helped lead to Abolition. |
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| Hudson River School of Arts |
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-Landscape Paintings
-Encourage West movement
-expansion
-Sense of Pride |
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| Wrote "The Leather Stockings", and "The Last of the Mochians" |
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| French Writer, Visited U.S. to study Penitentiary system. |
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| 1st Industrial Revolution |
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Social and economic Reorganization, machines replaced hand tools.
Factory production began. |
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| Putting cotton in gin removed the seeds faster and more efficiently than slaves, increased cotton production, so increase in need for slaves. |
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| Invented mechanical Reaper, Permitted one worker to do the work of five hands. |
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| Invented by John Deere, Slices through heavy soil and took less power to pull. |
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| Natural place for the growth of industrialization was in producing clothing. |
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| Got right to run Steamboats on rivers and profited from this state charter, which gravitated into a monopoly by charging steamboat operators for licenses to operate on various stretches of river. |
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| Invented Morse code, not the Telegraph. |
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| By Saying "I Know Nothing" it was an american party. |
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| Favoring of Native-born americans over immigrants |
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| Invented First Steel Plow. |
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| Strechted 363 miles; Linked Hudson River to Lake Erie (Atlantic ocean to Great Lakes) |
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| Manufactured 10,000 muskets in just two years. |
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