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Unit 7 Vocab Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| James Monroe | 5th president of the U.S when there was only one political party |
| John Quincy Adams | worked out Adams Onis Treaty and Convention of 1818, James Monroe's Secretary of State |
| Monroe Doctrine | U.S. policy that stated that the Western Hemisphere was off limits for European colonization |
| Latin America | Mexico, Central America, and South America |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | Treaty between U.S. and Spain that gave Florida to the U.S. |
| Cede | to give land |
| Annex | to add land to a country |
| Convention of 1818 | Treaty between England and U.S that set the border with Canada at the 49th Parallel |
| Industrial Revolution | industrial change when manufacturing replaced farming as the central form of work |
| Lowell Mill Girls | girls who worked in textile mills in Lowell, MA |
| Samuel Slater | Immigrant from England who memorized the plans of a textile mill and introduced them to the United States |
| Richard Arkwright | creator of the water frame |
| Urbanization | process of people leaving farms to work in factories |
| Interchangable Parts | making everything have the same parts so things are easier to build and fix |
| Eli Whitney | creator of the cotton gin and the idea of standardized parts |
| Telegraph | machine that sends electrical signals across a wire using Morse Code, created by Samuel F. B. Morse |
| Irish | Immigrants to the U.S. that lived in northeastern cities and worked on infrastructure like roads and canals |
| German | Immigrants to the U.S. that ran farms in the Midwest |
| Emigrant | a person exiting a country |
| Immigrant | a person coming to a new country |
| Potato Famine | potato blight in Ireland that killed many people, lasted 6 years |
| Era of Good Feelings | Time during James Monroe's presidency where there was one political party |
| American System | economic system created by Henry Clay that would grow the American economy to make it autonomous |
| Henry Clay | Congressman from Kentucky who created the idea of the American System |
| Erie Canal | canal that connected New York City to the Great Lakes |
| Nationalism | feeling of self respect for one's country |
| Sectionalism | feeling of self respect for one's region of the country |
| Tariff | tax on imported goods, made American economy stronger |
| Infrastructure | a system of communication and transportation for a nation |
| Cotton Gin | machine that quickly removed the seeds from cotton |
| Memphis | cotton capital, where farmers traded goods on the Mississippi River |
| Deep South | states that relied mostly on growing cotton, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas |
| Slave codes | laws in the south that controlled slave behavior |
| Spirituals | religious songs |
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