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mr Buck chapter 7
North and South take different paths
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History
8th Grade
03/02/2009

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Samuel Slater
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brought plans to America for the first textile factory
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Eli Whitney
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developed the system of interchangable parts
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nativists
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group that wanted laws to limit immigration
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Missouri Compromise
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plan to maintain the balance of slave states and free states
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Erie Canal
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connected markets in New York and the Midwest
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What linked many towns with cities and factories and opened new markets in the northern economy by the 1850s.
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railroads
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The industrial revolution began in the
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textile industry
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What made the Louisiana Territory north of southern border of Missouri would be free of slavery
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Missouri Compromise
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What allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state?
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The Missouri Compromise
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Most southern whites were ___________
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farmers
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Robert Fulton is known as the inventor of which of the following
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steamboat
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A Nativist believes
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America belongs only to white Protestants born in the United States
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Cotton profits increased enormously and cotton plantations extended as far west as Texas thanks to the _____________
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invention of the cotton gin
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interchangable parts
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exchangeable parts, so that any part in a batch of identical parts would fit any individual product coming down the assembly line
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People came to the US because of
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hunger in other lands

cheap land in the US

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Explain the importance of either Clipper Ships or railroads to the northern economy.
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Railroads transported raw materials and goods quickly and cheaply

Clipper Ships delivered products faster meaning larger share of the sea trade.

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capitalist
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an economic system based on private ownership of capital
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Nat Turner
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an American slave who started the largest slave rebellion in the antebellum southern United States in Southampton County, Virginia
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railroad system
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connected markets in New York and the Midwest
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Analyze the effects of the Industrial Revolution on the United States.  Then, explain the economic changes it brought to the nation, its impact on women and daily life, and its impact on population trends.
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forced the development of a powerful manufacturing economy, Mass production made more stuff cheaper, new factories brought more women into work force, women able to gain education, people moved from country into cities.

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