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unit 7 vocab terms
growth (social studies)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| james monroe | president during the "era of good feelings." he was the fifth president of the US. |
| john quincy adams | wrote the monroe doctrine. he was also james monroe's secreaty of state. |
| monroe doctrine | said that europe could no longer colonize the western part of the hemisphere. |
| latin america | mexico, central america, south america. |
| adams- onis treaty | gave florida to the US. |
| cede | to provide |
| annex | to add |
| convention of 1818 | set the border of canada. |
| industrial revolution | farming was replaced by manufacturing. |
| lowell mill girls | girls who worked in the lowell mills. |
| samuel slater | created the first steam powered factory. he was a british immigrant who smuggled the plans into the US. |
| richard arkwright | created the water frame. |
| urbanization | people who lived in farms would move to the city. |
| interchangeable parts | parts that can be changed with other parts and it will make no difference to thing these parts are used for. |
| eli whitney | created the cotton gin and the concept of interchangeable parts. |
| telegraph | sent signals across long distances (like a phone) using morse code. |
| irish | immigrants who worked on canals and railroads. came to america because of the potato famine. |
| german | immigrants that came to the US to settle on farms in the midwest. |
| emigrant | somebody leaving to country |
| immagrant | somebody moving to a new country |
| potato famine | this was why the irish immigrated to the US. potatoes contracted a disease that killed a large population of the irish settlers. |
| era of good feelings | this happened when james monroe was the president. this was know to be a very peacful time. |
| american system | an economic system (this was created by henry clay). the US economy became more self reliant after this. |
| henry clay | created the american system. he was also the congressman from kentucky. |
| erie canal | connected new york city and the great lakes. this was a man made canal (this means that this was created by hand) |
| nationalism | when somebody is very patriotic or very proud of their COUNTRY |
| sectionalism | when somebody is very patriotic or proud of their NATION |
| tariff | a tax that was created to tax imports |
| infastructure | when a nation had a system of transportation and communication |
| cotton gin | created by eli whitney and removed the seeds from cotton. this used to be a very time consuming job and now the US had a machine to do this. cotton became the cash crop due to this machine. |
| memphis | known as the "cotton capital of the south". |
| deep south | alabama, missippi, louisana, georgia, south carolina, texas |
| slave codes | very strict rules that were passed that forbid many of the slaves rights |
| spirituals | faith songs sung by slaves. |
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