Chapter11 Flashcards
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Eli Whitney
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Inventer of the cotton gin
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Samuel Slater
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Inventer of textile mill
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Cyrus McCormick
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Inventor of the harvester
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cotton gin
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Separated cotton from seeds
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Robert Fulton
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Inventor of the Steam Boat
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Samuel F.B. Morse
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Inventor of the telegraph
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pony express
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First postal system in the western territories
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abolotionism
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Movement to eliminate slavery
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Frederick Douglas
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Brilliant, eloquent, and radical ex-slave
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Harriet Tubman
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Conductor of the underground railroad
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Seneca Falls Convention
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Birth of the modern women’s rights movement
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transcendentalism
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Popular philosophy of early 19th century
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Pessimist writer of transcendentalist era