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  1. 2. inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company
  2. 3. they maintained communications between the federal government in Washington and the commanding officers of the far-flung units of the Union Army.
  3. 8. Charged during the American Civil War with the administration of military hospitals, Dix also established a reputation as an advocate for the work of female nurses
  4. 9. destroyed the white Southern myth that slaves were actually happy with their lives or too docile to undertake a violent rebellion. His revolt hardened proslavery attitudes among Southern whites and led to new oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of slaves.
  5. 10. American inventor, engineer, and artist who brought steamboating from the experimental stage to commercial success. He also designed a system of inland waterways, a submarine, and a steam warship.
  6. 11. formed by weaving, knitting, crocheting, knotting, and pressing fibers together
  7. 12. The agricultural region of the southeastern U.S. where cotton is the main cash crop
  8. 15. the effort to fund schools in every community with public dollars, and is thus heralded as the start of systematic public schooling in the United States
  9. 17. a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation
  10. 18. identical components that can be substituted one for another, particularly important in the history of manufacturing. Mass production, which transformed the organization of work, came about by the development of the machine-tool industry by a series of 19th-century innovators.
  11. 19. In the North, during the first few decades of the 19th century, brought about a machine age economy that relied on wage laborers, not slaves. Southerners made huge profits from cotton and slaves and fought a war to maintain them.
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  1. 1. The expansion of internal American trade greatly increased with the adoption of canals, steamboats, and railroads
  2. 4. was a Protestant religious movement in the United States
  3. 5. American inventor who developed and brought into general use the first practical domestic sewing machine
  4. 6. it was a labor production model invented by Francis Cabot Lowell in Massachusetts in the 19th century. The system was designed so that every step of the manufacturing process was done under one roof and the work was performed by young adult women instead of children or young men.
  5. 7. American painter and inventor who developed an electric telegraph
  6. 13. an organized effort during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to limit or outlaw the consumption and production of alcoholic beverages in the United States
  7. 14. families were hired and factory work was divided into simple tasks; housing and company stores were provided for workers; people from poor communities were hired; mill towns were built for workers, owners, and families.
  8. 16. a blacksmith who developed the first commercially successful, self-scouring steel plow in 1837 and founded the company that still bears his name