Chapter 11 Flashcards
(22 cards)
Built the first American spinning mill
Samuel Slater
Connected NYC with Buffalo, NY by water
Erie Canal
machine that cleaned cotton by separating the fibers from the seeds
Cotton gin
Enacted in 1820 to keep a balance of power between slave states and free states (Missouri=slave state, Maine=free state)
Missouri Compromise
Invented the telegraph
Samuel F. B. Morse
Built America’s first successful steam-powered locomotive
Peter Cooper
method of production that put many workers and machines together under one roof
Factory system
Textile factories in a Massachusetts town that employed large numbers of young women
Lowell Mills
Inventor of the first American steamboat that could move against the current
Robert Fulton
Cyrus McCormick’s machine for cutting ripe grain
mechanical reaper
Andrew Meikle’s machine for separating the kernels of grain from the husks
threshing machine
What effects did the cotton gin have?
- made plantation owners richer
* increased the need for slaves
The man who invented the machine for cleaning short-fibered cotton
Eli Whitney
Religious folk songs of African Americans in the South
spirituals
Kentucky representative who promoted the American System and the Missouri Compromise
Henry Clay
Plan presented by President Madison in 1815 to make the US economically self-sufficient
American System
statement issued in 1823 opposing further European colonization of the Americas and saying that the US would stay out of European conflicts
Monroe Doctrine
led a rebellion against slavery in Virginia in 1831
Nat Turner
Explain the Missouri Compromise.
- Missouri was becoming a state and Congress couldn’t agree if it should be a free or slave state
- Maine was becoming a state, so then they made ME a free state and Missouri a slave state to keep sides even
- also called for slavery to be banned north of 36, 30 line
- Mason Dixon line came about
explain the 3 parts of the American System.
- establish a protective tariff
- establish a national bank and 1 form of currency
- improve the transportation systems
Identify the 3 points of the Monroe Doctrine.
- Americas were closed to further colonization
- US would stay out of Europe and its’ affairs
- US would protect Latin America
a tax on imported goods that protects a nation’s businesses from foreign competition
protective tariff
