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Machine developed in 1764 that could spin several threads a at once

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Spinning jenny

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

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Industrial revolution

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Money raised for a business venture

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Capital

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

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Capitalist

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method of producing goods that brought workers and machinery together in one place

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Factory system

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Identical machine-made parts for a tool or instrument

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Interchangeable parts

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Young woman who worked in the Lowell mills in Massachusetts during the industrial revolution

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Lowell girl

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Process of a populations shifting from farms to cities

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Urbanization

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

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Flatboat

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

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Turnpike

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Road made of logs

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Corduroy road

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Person born in Spain’s American colonies to Spanish parents

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Creoles

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Independent state composed of the present day nations of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and panama; established in 1819 after the territory declared independence from Spain

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Republic of great Colombia

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

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Negro fort

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First federally funded national road project, begun in 1811

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National road

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Steamboat built in 1807 by Robert Fulton; first steamboat to be commercially successful in American waters

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Clermont

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

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Erie Canal

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

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Era of good feelings

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Loyalty to a state or section rather than the whole country

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Sectionalism

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

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American system

Social studies Vocabulary 3rd 9 Weeks (2 decks)

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