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Unit 7 Vocab Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| James Monroe | President during Era of Good Feelings, 5th of the United States |
| John Quincy Adams | Made the Adams-Onis Treaty to get Florida, Monroe's Secretary of State |
| Monroe Doctrine | Said that Europe couldn't colonize Western Hemisphere; It was America's foreign policy |
| Latin America | A different name for Mexico, Central, and South America |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | Treaty that got America Florida from Spain, worked out by John Quincy Adams |
| Cede | To give |
| Annex | to take over or add to a country |
| Convention of 1818 | Agreement between America and Britain that set the 49th Parallel, which became the border between Canada and the U.S. |
| Industrial Revolution | A change in economy in the late 1700s where there were new inventions that boosted manufacturing |
| Lowell Mill Girls | The women that worked in factories in Lowell, Massachusetts |
| Samuel Slater | British immigrant that showed America the plans for a steam-powered factory |
| Richard Arkwright | Invented the Water Frame |
| Urbanization | a time when people move from rural farms to urban cities |
| Interchangeable Parts | An idea of making parts of a good standardized, so it is easier to repair and change parts |
| Eli Whitney | He invented the idea of interchangeable parts and the cotton gin |
| Telegraph | Long distance communication device using Morse Code |
| Irish | Immigrants that came to America after a Potato Famine in their country, lived in northeastern cities |
| German | Immigrants the came to America and lived in the Midwest on farms |
| Emigrant | Someone who leaves a country |
| Immigrant | Someone who comes into a new country |
| Potato Famine | A time in Ireland where there was a blight on potatoes, causing millions of Irish people to die |
| Era of Good Feelings | The time during James Monroe's presidency where there was only one political party |
| American System | A system by Henry Clay that made the US more self-sufficient |
| Henry Clay | Congressman from Kentucky that introduced the American System |
| Erie Canal | A canal that connects New York City to the Great Lakes |
| Nationalism | A feeling of pride in your country |
| Sectionalism | A feeling of pride in your region over the whole nation |
| Tariff | A tax on imports to protect manufacturing |
| Infrastructure | A system of transportation in a nation |
| Cotton Gin | An invention by Eli Whitney that made cotton picking 50x faster |
| Memphis | The Southern "Cotton Capital" because it was near the middle of the Mississippi River |
| Deep South | The most southern states that relied mostly on agriculture: Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas |
| Slave Codes | Codes made by slave owners that limited the rights of their slaves |
| Spirituals | Folk songs that slaves sang to express their religious faith |
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