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Eli Whitney

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Inventor of the cotton gin,

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Interchangeable parts

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Parts that are exactly alike

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Mass Production

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The production of goods in large quantities

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Industrial Revolution

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Social and economic reorganization that took place as machines replaced hand tools and large scale factory production development

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Samuel Slater

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1793- British immigrant, in Rhode island - First successful mechanized textile factory in america

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Cotton gin

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Eli Whitney’s invention

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American System

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Objective were to promote nationalism, make us self sufficient and economically strong

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Erie Canal

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362 miles, 8 years to dig, Connected the Hudson river with lake erie

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Tariff of 1816

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A protective tariff designed to aid american industries

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Era of Good feelings

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period of great nationalism

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Interstate commerce

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.first law allowing the United States government to regulate businesses

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Gibbons Vs. Ogden

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power to regulate interstate commerce was given to the congress

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McCulloch Vs. Maryland

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.The state of Maryland had attempted to impede operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a tax on all notes of banks not chartered in Maryland.

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Nationalism

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the belief that national interests should be placed ahead of regional concerns or the interests of other countries

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Adams-Onis Treaty

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Spain ceded Florida to the US

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Monroe Doctrine

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Us would not involve itself in European affairs or interfere with existing colonies in the Western Hemisphere

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Missouri Compromise

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Series of agreements passed by congress in 1820-1821 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states

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Andrew Jackson

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John Q Adams’ Chief political apponent

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Spoils System

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The practice of winning candidates rewarding their supporters with government jobs

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Indian Removal Act

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Law , Enacted in 1830 that forced Native American people east of the Mississippi to move to lands in the west

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Worcester Vs. Georgia

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something at the indians

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Trail of Tears

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The Cherokee buried more than a quarter of their people

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John C. Calhoun

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Jackson’s Vice president of SC

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Tariff of abominations

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Colhoun’s name for an 1828 tariff increase that seemed to southerners to be enriching the North at thier expense

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Daniel Webster

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Massachusetts Senator, Rose in senate and delivered one of the greatest speeches in American History

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Whig Party

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political party formed in 1834 to oppose the policies of Andrew Jackson

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Panic of 1837

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Bank closing and the collapse of the credit system cost people their savings , bankruped hundreds of businesses and put more than a third of the population out of work

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William Henry Harrison

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Candidate of the Whig Party

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John Tyler

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Harrison’s Vice president and successor , opposed many parts of the whig program for economic recovery