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Unit 3
1.Puritanism: in the 16th and 17th cent., a movement for reform in the Church of England that had a profound influence on the social, political, ethical, and theological ideas of England and America.
2.The declaration of independence: written by Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, proclaimed the independence of 13 North American colonies.
3.George Washington: is the first president of the United states, from 1759 to the outbreak of the American Revolution, he managed his lands around Mount Vernon. 4..Benjamin Franklin: was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.he is credited as being foundational to the roots of American values and character
Unit 5
1.Eli Whitney: made cotton production more efficient by inventing the cotton gin, which rapidly removed the seeds from the bolls of cotton.
2.Samuel Slater: built a cotton cloth factory, which started a process of chang that turned the northeastern region of the United States into an important
manufacturing center. 3.Industrial
revolution
In
England,
especially
machinery run by water power and later by steam power was used to manufacture cloth, this changed the ways that people worked.
4.Corporation:In the early years of the
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