Chapter 12 The Way West
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- Industrial Revolution
- a period of time when inventions changed the way people lived and traveled
- textile mill
- a place where material is made
- mass production
- a way to make products much faster; idea of Eli Whitney
- interchangeable part
- identical parts made by a machine so that, if one breaks, another can be installed
- transport
- to move from one place to another; to carry
- canal
- a human made waterway
- locomotive
- a train; the Tom Thumb was made using a steam engine
- sectionalism
- having regional loyalty; for example, people in the North and the South were just interested in helping their own section of the coutry grow and prosper in the 1800's
- states' rights
- states have final authority over the national government.
- secede
- to leave the union
- ruling
- a court decision
- manifest destiny
- the belief that America was destined to expand its borders from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
- dictator
- a leader with total authority
- forty-niner
- a gold seeker who went to California in 1849
- relief
- difference in the height of an area of land
- elevation
- the height of land
- reform
- a change for the better
- public school
- school funded and run by the public; CCMS for example- paid for by taxes and open to all children
- abolish
- to end(as in slavery)
- abolitionist
- people who wanted to end slavery; Frederick Douglass was one
- equality
- the same rights for all people
- suffrage
- the right to vote
- Chapter 12 The Way West
- Industrial Revolution, textile mill, mass production, interchangeable parts, transport, canal, locomotive, sectionalism, states' rights, secede, ruling, manifest destiny, dictator, 49er, relief, elevation, reform, public school, abolish, abolitionist, equality, suffrage