history chapter 10
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- the change from an agrarian society to one based on industry
- Industrial Revolution
- an economic system based on private and free enterprise
- capitalism
- money for investments
- capital
- the freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal government regulation
- free enterprise
- application of scientific discoveries to practical use
- technology
- a michine that removed seeds from cotton fiber
- cotton gin
- a document that gives an inventor the sole legal right to an invention for a period of time
- patent
- system bringing manufacturing steps together in one place to increase efficiency
- factory system
- uniform pieces that can be made in large quantities to replace other identical pieces
- interchangeable parts
- large businesses
- corporations
- shares of ownership in a company
- stock
- official count of population
- census
- a road that one must pay to use
- turnpike
- in a canal, an enclosure with gates at each end used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from level to level
- locks
- loyalty to a region
- sectionalism
- federal projects, such as canals and roads, to develop the nations transportattion system
- internal improvements
- policies devised by henry clay to stimulate the growth of industry
- american system
- removal of weapons
- disarmamanet
- to remove armed forces from land and area
- demilitarized
- to try by a military court
- court-martialed
- invented the cotton gin
- eli whitney
- british factory worker who brought his ideas to the u.s
- samuel slater
- opened the first major textile factory
- francis cabot lowell
- first government funded road built to make transportation to the west much easier
- national road
- built the first steam boats that were able to handle the strong winds and curretns of large rivers, first boat was called the clermont
- robert fulton
- 363 mile water way that liked the hudson river, and lake erie
- erie canal
- period of time after the war of 1812 when all political party lines and differences seemed to go away, and most citizens agreed on what direction the country should go
- era of good feelings
- south caroilna planter who pushed for states rights and their ability to function individually with out the national goverment
- john c. calhoun
- new hampshire and massachusetts politician who felt that the national government should do whatever needed to help american industries
- daniel webster
- speaker of the house from kentucky who tried to find a compormoise between states rights and the rights of the national government
- henry clay
- provided for the admission of maine as a free state and missouri as slave state and set up guidelines for those that my want to join the union to enter either free or slave states
- missouri compromise
- agreement between the u.s. and britian over how many naval ships and troops could be on the great lakes
- rush bagot treaty
- set the boundries of the louisiana territory between the u.s and canada at the 49th parallel
- convention of 1818
- treaty between spain and the u.s. spain gave up east florida and all claims in west florida, the u.s. took over $5 million in debt spain owed to u.s. citizens
- adams-onis treaty
- issued by president james monroe, said the u.s would not mess with any european colonies in the americas but would oppose any nre ones forming
- monroe doctrine
- What is science?
- process of thinking and learning
- What five things make something alive?
- orderly structure, obtain and use energy of some form, grow and develop, respond to environment, ability to reproduce
- What's the scientific method?
- Identify problem, test hypothesis, analyze results, conclusion & evaluation, organized sense