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Industrialization & Early Expa
Early Expansion
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8th Grade
02/25/2009

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Term
Industrial Revolution
Definition
the shift of production from hand tools to machines and
from homes to factories
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mass production
Definition
using machines to make large quantities of goods faster and cheaper than they could be made by hand
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assembly line
Definition
a factory system in which the product moves from worker to worker, each of whom performs one task
Term
tariff
Definition
taxes on imports
Term
democracy
Definition
system of government in which the people rule, either directly or through elected representatives
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economy
Definition
the managment of money in government, household or other group
Term
mudslinging
Definition
making wild charges and lies about a candidate
Term
slavery
Definition
owned by another person and thought of as property
Term
Samuel Slater
Definition
-Spinning Mill
-Spinning Jenny began the industrial revolution
-1790
-first one built in America, located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island
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Eli Whitney
Definition
-Cotton Gin
-1793
-picking cotton slow process
Cotton Gin made cotton a profitable cash crop in south
Term
Robert Fulton
Definition
-Steamboat called Clermont
-1807
Term
National Road
Definition
-1806-1818
-from Baltimore to Wheeling on the Ohio River
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Francis Cabot Lowell's Cotton Mill
Definition
-1815
-1st mill in America to have spinning and weaving under one roof
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Erie Canal
Definition
-1817-1823
-connects Lake Erie and the Hudson River
Term
Peter Cooper
Definition
-steam powered locomotive/train
-1830
-referred to as the "iron horse"
Term
Presidents
Definition
1. George Washington
2. John Adams
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. James Madison
5. James Monroe
6. John Quincy Adams
7. Andrew Jackson
Term
Aqusitiion of Florida
Definition
-farmers in Georgia complained about raids by Seminole Indains and escaped slaves who live in Florida
-1818 President Monroe got General Andrew Jackson to stop the raids by destroying Seminole villages
-Spain decided to get out
Term
Adams-Onis Treaty
Definition
-Spain ceded Florida to the United States
-gave up claim on Oregon County
Term
Monroe Doctrine 1823
Definition
-President Monroe proclaims that Americas aree closed to future colonization by any European powers
in return U.S. would stay out of European affairs
Term
Missouri Compromise 1820
Definition

-Northerners in Congress wanted to keep slavery from spreading

-Henry Clay, speaker of House made a plan

--Missouri would be a slave state but Maine would be a free state

-line drawn across Louisiana Purchase at 36 degrees and 30 minutes

North of line slavery would be forever banned

-South of the line, slavery would be permitted

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