Industrial Revolution - A period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s, cotton gin - machine cleans the seed from the cotton fibers - invented by Eli Whitney, fertile soil - soil that is rich in minerals and good for growing crops, interchangeable parts - uniform pieces that can be made in large quantities to replace other identical pieces, mass production - ability to make large quantities of a product quickly and cheaply, free enterprise system - economic system where people are free to operate their businesses as they see it with little government interference, domestic - native to a country, canals, regulation - rule made and maintained by an authority, urbanization, rural, nativism - favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people, isolationism - A national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs, sectionalism - Different parts of the country developing unique and separate cultures , Missouri Compromise - It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states., labor force - total number of workers,

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