EMS--History 10 Test
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- cotton gin
- a simple machine that quickly and efficiently removed the seeds from a certain southern crop
- canal
- an artificial waterway
- Francis Cabot Lowell
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Created one of the first factories in New England which employed many young women
- turnpike
- a toll road
- lock
- one of several separate compartmets where water levels are raised or lowered
- sectionalism
- loyalty to the region you live in
- Monroe Doctrine
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1. U.S. did not want more colonization in the Western Hemisphere, U.S. would not bother existing colonies. 2. The Western Hemisphere was closed to future colonization & the U.S. would do something if this happened.
- interchangeable parts
- to make large quantities of uniform pieces that could replace any other identical parts
- Eli Whitney
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Came up with the idea of interchangeable parts and invented the cotton gin
- James Monroe
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Was President of the U.S. during the Era of Good Feelings. He helped create a doctrine which would keep Europe out of the Western Hemisphere.
- Robert Fulton
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created a more powerful steam engine to power steamboats
- factory system
- an arrangement of bringing manufacturing steps together in one place to increase efficiency
- Missouri Compromise
- Any state north of the 36 30 line would enter as a free state. Maine would enter as a free state and Missouri would enter as a slave state.
- Industrial Revolution
- Many inventions were made during this time to make things run more efficiently
- inventor
- someone who makes something for the first time
- tariff
- a tax on foreign goods
- capital
- money for investment
- Samuel Slater
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Was the first to create a mill/factory system in the U.S. He memorized the mill plans from England where he once lived.
- patent
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a grant that gives an inventor sole legal right to an invention and its profits for a certain period of time
- entrepreneur
- someone who markets an invented item, risks everything--puts out the money