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- three regions
- north, south, west
- Maine
- entered as a free state
- Samuel Slater
- memorized plans from machinery in England, came to US and duplicated them
- 36 30' north parallel
- line where slavery was prohibited after the Missouri Compromise
- Adams-Onis Treaty
- Spanish gave East Florida to the US and gave up all claims to West Florida
- Henry Clay
- represented the west in congress, helped work out the Missouri Compromise, nicknamed the Great Compromiser
- Monroe Doctrine
- US would oppose any new colonial development in the Americas, the US would not interfere with nations in Europe
- Robert Fulton
- inventor who developed a steamboat with a powerful engine
- sectionalism
- loyalty to a specific region
- Missouri
- was admitted as a slave state
- Working conditions in factories
- long hours, low pay, unsafe conditions, poor lighting and lack of ventilation
- Spain and US
- the countries involved in the Adams-Onis Treaty
- national road
- first road to connect with the west, built with government funds(used conestoga wagons
- demilitarized border
- a border without armed forces
- convention of 1818
- line that separated Canada and US was set at the 49th parallel
- De Witt Clinton
- governor of new York when the Erie Canal was being built
- Rush-Bagot Treaty
- involved Britain and US, limited the number of naval vessels each could have on the Great Lakes
- Era of Good Feelings
- a period of national unity \, strong nationalism and prosperity
- Andrew Jackson
- exceeded his orders to stop the seminole raids by capturing two Spanish forts
- Clermont
- name of the steamboat that Robert Fulton built
- disarmament
- the removal of weapons
- Daniel Webster
- represented the north in congress, from New Hampshire
- Spanish Colonies in Latin America
- rebelled against Spanish rule
- James Monroe
- winner of the election of 1816
- Southerners
- opposed raised tariffs on the prices on manufactured goods and this areas economy depended on imports
- patent
- gives inventor sole legal rights to the invention and its profits for a certain period of time
- technology
- scientific discoveries that simplify work
- Eli Whitney
- invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts
- Erie canal
- nicknamed "Clinton's Ditch"
- New England
- first area where the industrial revolution started in the US
- census
- official count of a population
- turnpikes
- toll roads built by companies
- interchangeable parts
- identical machine parts that could be quickly put together to make a complete product
- conditions in cities
- rapid growth of cities, buildings made of wood or brick, unpaved streets and sidewalks, no sewers, diseases such as cholera and yellow fever, lack of organized fire and police departments and over crowded living conditions
- Henry Clay
- proposed the Missouri Compromise
- Industrial Revolution
- the change from an agrarian society to one based on industry which began in Great Britain and spread to the US around 1800
- John C. Calhoun
- represented the south in congress, planter from South Carolina
- Capitalism
- economic system of US in which individuals put money into a business to compete for profit