Vocab.

Question 0

Machine developed in 1764 that could spin several threads at once

Answer 0

Spinning jenny

Question 1

Gradual process by which machines replaced hand tools and steam and other new sources of power replaced human and animal power

Answer 1

Industrial revolution

Question 2

Money raised for a business venture

Answer 2

Capital

Question 3

Person who invests in a business in order to make a profit

Answer 3

Capitalist

Question 4

Method of producing good that brought workers and machinery together in one place

Answer 4

Factory system

Question 5

Young women who worked I the Lowell mills in mass. During the industrial revolution

Answer 5

Lowell girl

Question 6

Process of a populations shifting from farms to cities

Answer 6

Urbanization

Question 7

Boat with a flat bottom used for transporting heavy loads on islands waterways

Answer 7

Flatboat

Question 8

Road built by a private company that charges a toll to use it

Answer 8

Turnpike

Question 9

Road made of logs

Answer 9

Corduroy road

Question 10

Independent state composed of the present day nations of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and panama; established in 1819

Answer 10

Republic of great Colombia

Question 11

Settlement of escaped African American slaves in the Spanish colony of Florida

Answer 11

Negro fort

Question 12

First federal funded national road project, begun in 1811

Answer 12

National road

Question 13

Steamboat built in1807 by Robert Fulton first steam boat to be commercially successful in American waters

Answer 13

Clermont

Question 14

Articial waterway opened in 1825 linking Lake Erie to the Hudson River

Answer 14

Erie Canal

Question 15

The eight years if James Monroe’s presidency, from 1817 to 1825 when the democratic republicans dominated the nations politics

Answer 15

Era if good feelings

Question 16

Loyalty to a state or section rather than to the whole country

Answer 16

Sectionalism

Question 17

Program for economic growth promoted by Henry clay in the early 1800s called for high tariffs on imports and federal funds to improve transport ion

Answer 17

American system

Question 18

Person born in Spain American colonies to Spanish parents

Answer 18

Creoles

Question 19

Identical machine made parts for a tool or instrument

Answer 19

Interchangeable parts