"American system of manufactures" (pg. 346)1. Industrial mass production of interchangeable parts that could be rapidly assembled into standardized finished products.camp meetings (pg. 358)1. Gatherings especially prominent on the frontier with fiery revivalist preachers promoting the doctrine of human free will.Charles River Bridge case (pg. 351)1. A ruling that the Massachusetts legislature did not infringe the charter of an existing company that had constructed a bridge over the Charles River when it empowered a second company to build a competing bridge.cotton gin (pg. 339)1.Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793, the machine separated cotton seed from cotton fiber, speeding cotton processing and making profitable the cultivation of the more hardy, but difficult to clean, short-staple cotton; led directly to the dramatic nineteenth-century expansion of slavery in the South.Cotton Kingdom (pg. 339)1. A term referring to Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas
