Vocabulary Flashcards
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Machine developed in 1764 that could spin several threads a at once
Spinning jenny
Gradual process by which machines replace hand tools, and steam and other new sources of power replaced human and animal power
Industrial revolution
Money raised for a business venture
Capital
Person who invests in a business in order to make a profit
Capitalist
method of producing goods that brought workers and machinery together in one place
Factory system
Identical machine-made parts for a tool or instrument
Interchangeable parts
Young woman who worked in the Lowell mills in Massachusetts during the industrial revolution
Lowell girl
Process of a populations shifting from farms to cities
Urbanization
Boat with a flat bottom used for transporting heavy loads on inland waterways
Flatboat
Road built by a private company that charges a toll to use it
Turnpike
Road made of logs
Corduroy road
Person born in Spain’s American colonies to Spanish parents
Creoles
Independent state composed of the present day nations of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and panama; established in 1819 after the territory declared independence from Spain
Republic of great Colombia
Settlement of escaped African American slaves in the Spanish colony of Florida
Negro fort
First federally funded national road project, begun in 1811
National road
Steamboat built in 1807 by Robert Fulton; first steamboat to be commercially successful in American waters
Clermont
Artificial waterway opened in 1825 linking Lake Erie to the Hudson River
Erie Canal
The eight years of James Monroe’s presidency, from 1817 to 1825, when the democratic republicans dominated the nations politics
Era of good feelings
Loyalty to a state or section rather than the whole country
Sectionalism
Program for economic growth promoted by Henry clay in the early 1800s; called for high tariffs on imports and federal funds to improve transportation
American system
