the policy of promoting industry in the U.S. by
adoption of a high protective tariff and of developing internal improvements by the federal government (as advocated by Henry Clay from 1816 to 1828)
American System
the system of manufacturing that began in the
18th century with the development of the power loom and the steam engine and is based on concentration of industry into large establishments
factory system
The change from a agrarian society to one
based on industry which began in Great Britain and spread to the US around the 1800’s.
Industrial revolution
Uniform pieces that can be made in large
quantities to replace other identical pieces
interchangeable part
The idea popular in the US during the 1800’s
that the country must expand its boundaries to the Pacific.
Manifest Destiny
Any of a group of New England writers who
stressed the relationship between human beings and nature, spiritual things over material things, and the importance of the individual conscience.
transcendentalist