National and Regional Growth-S.S
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- monroe doctrine
- us policy opposing european interference in the western hemisphere
- samuel slater
- builder of the frst powered textile mill in america
- robert fulton
- inventor of americas first widely successful steamboat
- samuel f.b. morse
- inventor of the telegraph
- american system
- plan introduced in 1815 to make america economically self-sufficient
- lowell mills
- textile mills located in the factory town of Lowell, Masachusetts
- missouri compromise
- laws enacted on 1820 to mantain balance of power between slave and free states
- industrial revolution
- the economic changes in late 1700's, when manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work
- henry clay
- nationlist representative from kentucky
- eli whitney
- inventor of the cotton gin
- nat turner
- leader of the 1831 slave rebellion in virginia
- cold war
- conflict between the Us and Soviet Union in world war 2
- peter cooper
- builder of americas first sucessful steam powered locomotive
- erie canal
- waterway that connected new york city with buffalo new york
- factory system
- method of production using many workers and machines in one building
- cotton gin
- machine that made cleaning seeds from coton faster
- james monroe
- fifth president of the us who proclaimed the monroe doctrine