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Industrial Revolution

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

Cyrus McCormick

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

Interchangeable parts

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

Morse code

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

Lowell System

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

Robert Fulton

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

John Deere

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

Eli Whitney

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

telegraph

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

free enterprise

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

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.

Spirituals

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

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

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

Cotton Belt

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

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

Planters

large scale farmers who held more than 20 slaves

Plantations

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

Field Slave

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

House Slave

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

Abolition

Movement to end slavery

Overseer

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

Driver

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

Sectionlism

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

Missouri Compromise

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

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