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Download US History Study Guide: Chapters 6-9 - Key Figures, Events, and Industrialization - Prof. and more Study notes World History in PDF only on Docsity! US History 2010 Study Guide Chapters 6-9 1. Benedict Arnold – not given credit for battle of Fort Ticonderoga or Saratoga, only volunteer to take Fort Schuyler, treason against America, wrote notes to Major Andre, his loyalists destroyed Richmond, during American Revolution 2. Eli Whitney – created cotton gin 1793 3. Battle of Trenton – Dec 25 1776 during American revolution, Washington wins, Hessians surrendered 4. Gabriel’s Rebellion – in 1800’s, slave blacksmith wanted to overthrow slave regime, had a band of slave artisans planned military revolt, seized capital square, the treasury, and arsenal and Gov. James Monroe 5. Task System – beginning of Industrial Revolution, SC and GA used this slave labor 80%, rice intense labor assigned specific tasks 6. Louisiana Purchase – 1804, sold to US for 15mill from Napoleon, Jefferson used elastic Cause, 828k sq miles, Lewis & Clark explore 7. The National Road – 1815 linked Potomac River to Ohio 8. Hartford Convention – Secession 1814, New England agreeing to send delegates and drafted amendments 9. Constitutional Convention – May 1787 in Independence hall, divided power and how states were represented 10. Waltham System – beginning of Industrial Revolution, Francis Baot Lowel and friends made Boston Manufacturing Co., heavily capitalized and fully mechanized, workers were young women, women read books and newspapers and attended lectures, company expected women to work 2 yrs then marry farmer