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unit 7 vocab emme m
emme maples
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| James Monroe | 5th president, after the war of 1812, era of good feelings. |
| John Quincy Adams | Secretary of state in James Monroe's cabinet, worked out the Adams onis treaty, convention of 1818 and wrote the Monroe doctrine |
| Monroe Doctrine | document that said Europe couldn't put colonies in the western hemisphere |
| Latin America | Another name for Mexico, Central and South America |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | treaty between the united states and Spain that gave Florida to the u.s |
| Cede | to give |
| Annex | to add at a country |
| Convention of 1818 | u.s and British agreement that set the Canadian/u.s border at the 49th parallel |
| Industrial Revolution | time in the late 1700s where factories and manufacturing took over crops and farming as the main form of work. |
| Lowell Mill Girls | girls that worked in the factories in Lowell, Massachusetts. |
| Samuel Slater | secretly came to the u.s from great Britain to build the first steam powered factory. |
| Richard Arkwright | invented the water frame. |
| Urbanization | process of people moving from farms to cities. |
| Interchangeable parts | making individual parts to sell for repairs. |
| Eli Whitney | Inventor of the cotton gin and the concept of interchangeable parts |
| Telegraph | a device that was used for communicating and used morose code. |
| German | Immigrants to US that settled in the Midwest on farms |
| Emigrant | someone leaving their country |
| Immigrant | someone coming to a new country |
| Potato Famine | push factor in Ireland, famine of patatos |
| Era of Good Feelings | era with no political parties after the war of 1812, James Monroe president |
| American System | An economic system introduced by Henry Clay to grow the US economy so that it would become self-sufficient |
| Henry Clay | Proponent of the American System and Congressman from Kentucky |
| Erie Canal | canal (man made) connected the great lakes and new York city. |
| Nationalism | someone having a great sense of pride in their country. |
| Sectionalism | Pride in one’s region or section of the country over the nation as a whole |
| Tariff | a protective tax on imports. |
| Infrastructure | Pride in one’s region or section of the country over the nation as a whole |
| Cotton Gin | A device that sped up the process of removing seeds from cotton |
| Memphis | the "cotton capital of the south" |
| Deep South | Southern states that relied the most on cotton - Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas |
| Slave codes | Laws passed by southern states to govern and punish slave the behavior of slaves |
| Spirituals | Religious folk songs sung by slaves to express their faith |
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