a machine that could spin several threads at once.
100
money
capital
100
capitalist
person who invests in a business in order to make a profit
100
factory system
brought workers and machinery together in one place to produce goods,
100
Interchangeable parts
All machine-made parts would be alike
200
urbanization
movement of the population from farms to cities.
200
flatboats
flat-bottom boats
200
turnpikes
toll roads
200
corduroy roads
roads were made of logs
200
Sectionalism
loyalty to one's state or section rather than to the nation as a whole
300
internal improvements
improvements for roads, bridges, and canals
300
interstate commerce
trade between different states
300
creole
people born to Spanish parents
300
intervention
direct involvement
300
American System
high tariffs on imports, which would help northern factories
400
Lowell girls
usually worked for a few years in the mills before returning home to marry.
400
Industrial Revolution
a long, slow process that completely changed the way in which goods were produced.
400
National Road
to run from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling, in western Virginia.
400
Erie Canal
let western farmers ship their goods to the port of New York.
400
Lancaster Turnpike
Built in the 1790s by a private company, the road linked Philadelphia and Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
500
child labor
boys and girls worked in factories
500
tariff
a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.
500
liberator
a person who liberates a person or place from imprisonment or oppression: they saw themselves not as conquerors but as liberators.
500
republic
a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.