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Textile mills were used to produce cotton thread and was a British invention brought over to the U.S.
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The Cotton Gin was invented to reduce the time and cost of seperating the cotton seeds from the cotton.
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The first steamboat was constructed for easier travel upstream and across oceans
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The war of 1812 was fought by the Americans against the British and Native Americans, the British suplied natives with weapons and attacked American ships and the Americans declared war
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After the war of 1812, James Madison ran for reelection and went to war with the British again to invade Canada
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Lowell Mills was one of the most successful mills, employing young, single women and had strict rules for the boardinghouses
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British imports started flowing in more, so congress created the Tariff of 1816 which raised the prices of imported goods, encouraging the purchases of American made products
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James Monroe ran for president and won
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Turnpikes are roads where users had to pay a toll, the term comes from the pikes that guards turned to let the horses through after the toll was paid.
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The first trains were pulled by horses, but with the addition of the steam engine, trains could pull heavier loads faster
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James Monroe ran for reelection and won with almost all of the electoral votes
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Troubled workers wanted a say in the government, so they organized the Workingman's Party. They wanted free public education and a ten hour work day instead of twelve
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The Adams-Onis Treaty ended Spanish claims in Oregon, and the Americans and British shared the territory.
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The Monroe Doctrine was a policy that stated that the United States would help protect new republics from European threats
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The Erie Canal ran 363 miles from Lake Erie to the Hudson River, lowering the cost to ship a ton of freight from Buffalo to New York City from $100 to just $4
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Telegraphs were invented to quickly deliver messages to the other end of a metal wire, morse code became popular and the U.S. had 50,000 miles of telegraph wire
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In Ireland, a fungus caused a potato famine and many poor Irish came to America. In Germany, after a failure at a revolution, many Germans fled to America.