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Era of Good Feelings
Unit 4 Part 1 American History I
Term | Definition |
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Eli Whitney | inventor of interchangeable parts and the cotton gin |
Interchangeable Parts | standardized parts that can be used in place of one another |
Mass Production | the making of goods in large amounts |
Industrial Revolution | A change in the making of goods from small workshops to large factories that used machines |
Cotton Gin | Eli Whitney’s invention for cleaning cotton |
Henry Clay | Speaker of the House of Representatives and political leader from Kentucky |
American System | Clay’s plan for economic development |
National Road | A federally funded rd, stretching from Cumberland, Maryland, to Vanalia Illinois |
Erie Canal | Canal that connected the Great Lakes with The Atlantic Ocean |
Tariff of 1816 | a protective tariff designed to help American industries |
McCulloch v. Maryland | Supreme Court case that denied Maryland the right to tax the Bank of the United States |
John Quincy Adams | Secretary of State under President Monroe and Sixth President of the United States |
Nationalism | a belief that national interests as a whole should be more important than what one region wants |
Adams-Onis Treaty | Treaty that secured the purchase of Florida from Spain |
Monroe Doctrine | Warning to European nations not to interfere in the Americas |
Missouri Compromise | Agreement that temporarily settled the issue of slavery in the territories |