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Unit 7 vocab terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| James Monroe | The United States 5th president who served during the era of good feelings |
| John Quincy Adams | Secretary of state for James Monroe |
| Monroe Doctrine | An american foreign policy that Europe is no longer allowed to colonize the western hemisphere |
| Latin America | A different name for mexico, central, and south america |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | An agreement made by the USA and Spain which gave Florida to the USA |
| Cede | To offer |
| Annex | To build on to a country |
| Convention of 1818 | An agreement made by the USA and Britain that set a border with Canada at the 49th parallel |
| Industrial Revolution | In the late 1700's, economic change happened in which the main source of work, farming, was replaced by manufacturing |
| Lowell Mill Girls | A nickname for the women who worked in the Lowell Mill in Massachusetts |
| Samuel Slater | Introduced the first steam-powered factory to the United States; he was a British immigrant |
| Richard Arkwright | invented the water frame |
| Urbanization | The process of people switching from rural farming to factories in cities |
| Interchangeable parts | Standardize parts that create easier and quicker repairs |
| Eli Whitney | Invented the cotton gin and the idea for interchangeable parts |
| Telegraph | A device that uses wires to send messages/electrical signals through long distances using Morse code |
| Irish | Immigrants that lived in northeastern cities and worked on railroads and canals |
| Germans | Immigrants to the US that settled on farms in the midwest |
| Emigrant | A person leaving a country |
| Immigrant | A person moving to a new country |
| Potato Famine | A Blight on potatoes that killed millions of Irish |
| Era of Good Feelings | A era of political harmony during James Monroe's presidency |
| American System | An economic system - created and introduced by Henry Clay to grow the US economy so that it would become self-sufficient |
| Henry Clay | He was a congressman from Kentucky - Proponent of the American System |
| Erie Canal | A man-made waterway/river that connected New York City to the Great Lakes |
| Nationalism | A strong feeling of pride in ones country |
| Sectionalism | A persons pride in their region or section of the country over the nation as a whole |
| Tariff | Passed to protect american manufacturing - was a tax on imports |
| Infrastructure | The transportation and communication system of a nation |
| Cotton Gin | A device that sped up the separation of seeds from cotton |
| Memphis | Where farmers traded cotton along the Mississippi River - 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 that southern states passed to govern and punish the behavior of slaves |
| Spirituals | Religious folk songs sung and created by slaves to express their faith |
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