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A long slow process that changed the way goods were made.

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A machine invented by James Hargreaves in 1764 that could spin several threads at once.


Another name for money.


Is a person who invests in a business in order to make a profit.


Brought workers and machinery together in one place to produce goods.


Identical, machine-made parts for a tool or instrument.


Young women who worked in the Lowell Mills in Massachusetts during the Industrial Revolution.


Process of a population shifting from farms to cities.


First federally funded national road project, begun in 1811.

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National Road

A steamboat built in 1807 by Robert Fulton. First steamboat to be commercially successful in American waters.


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


The eight years of James Monroe’s presidency, from 1817 to 1825, when the Democratic Republicans dominated the nation’s politics.


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


• Program for economic growth promoted by Henry Clay in the early 1800s.

• Called for high tariffs on imports and federal funds to improve transportation.


• Improvements to roads, bridges, and canals.


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Business

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