Industrialization - When a society moves from agricultural (farming) to manufactured goods (machines) , Cotton Gin - quickly took seeds out of cotton fibers, Steel Plow - enabled farmers to plant huge wheat fields more efficiently since dirt did not stick to the blade, Mechanical Reaper - helped harvest wheat more efficiently, Interchangeable Parts - improved production methods, which led to mass production, Erie Canal - man-made river that connects Lake Erie to New York City, Telegraph - allowed for rapid communication over long distances, Free Enterprise - Prices are determined by supply and demand, Urbanization - Americans and immigrants began moving to cities to work, Irish Immigrants - left Ireland due to a potato famine and provided a cheap labor force, Missouri Compromise of 1820 - Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state and Maine would enter as a free state, Henry Clay - created the Missouri Compromise of 1820 to end the arguing between the North and the South over slavery, Nativism - where native-born citizens blamed immigrants for taking jobs and crime, Dred Scott v. Sandford - upreme Court ruled that enslaved people, were not and could never be citizens, and that Congress lacked the power to prohibit slavery, Manifest Destiny - belief America should own land from the Atlantic to Pacific Oceans, North - (Region) - Natural harbors and fast-flowing rivers resulted in industrialization and factories, South - (Region) - Fertile soil, great for growing cotton, helped expand the plantation system, West - (Region) - Cheap land encouraged farming and mining for natural resources, Steamboat - Allowed transportation up rivers and faster transportation of goods,

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