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Industrial Revolution

a period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing.

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Cyrus McCormick

This man invented the mechanical reaper to help cut down wheat faster.

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Interchangeable parts

process in which vital part are made the same for future repair.

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Morse code

a system of click and dashes used to stand for different letters of Alphabet.

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Lowell System

Young unmarried girls worked for 12-15 hours day in textile mills.

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Robert Fulton

This man's steamboat the Clermont provided service upriver on the Hudson.

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John Deere

a blacksmith who developed a new steel plow that better plowed though the soil.

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Eli Whitney

This man invented the cotton gin and came up with interchangeable parts.

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telegraph

machine invented by Samuel Morse that sent information over wire across great telegraph distance.

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free enterprise

freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal government regulation

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War of 1812 effect

War caused U.S. to build more factories, increasing manufacturing due to blockade from British. Less British products import to U.S.

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Spirituals

Religious folk songs that blended biblical themes with the realities of slavery

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Cotton gin

Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793. It removed seeds from cotton fibers. Now cotton could be processed quickly and cheaply. Results: more cotton is grown and more slaves are needed for more acres of cotton fields

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Eli Whitney

An American inventor who developed the cotton gin. Also contributed to the concept of interchangeable parts that were exactly alike and easily assembled or exchanged

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Cotton Belt

A region stretching from South Carolina to east Texas where most of U.S. cotton was grown during the mid-1800's

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Nat Turner's Rebellion

Rebellion in which Nat Turner led a group of slaves through virginia in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow and kill planter families

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Planters

large scale farmers who held more than 20 slaves

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Plantations

large farms that usually specialized in the growing of one type of crop for a profit

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Field Slave

Worked from sun up to sun, down doing intense physical labor on the plantation.

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House Slave

A slave who worked and often lived in the house of the master, duties included: cooking, sewing, cleaning, caring for children

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Abolition

Movement to end slavery

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Overseer

A worker hired by a planter to watch over and direct the work of slaves.

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Driver

A male slave whose job was to ensure that slaves did their work on a plantation.

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Sectionlism

favoring interest of one section or region over the interest of the entire country

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Missouri Compromise

Laws enacted in 1820 to maintain balance of power between slave and free states

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Maine would be free, Missouri slave; slavery banned north of 36/30 latitude line

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