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Unit 7 Vocabulary
Unit 7 Vocabulary Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| James Monroe | 5th President during political harmony( Era of Good Feelings) |
| John Quincy Adams | James Monroe’s Secretary of States --- the Adams-Onis Treaty--- Convention of 1818 |
| Monroe Doctrine | Policy that states that Europe can no longer colonize Western Hemisphere |
| Latin America | Nickname for Mexico, Central America, and South America |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | Spain gave Florida to the United States and defined an agreement between the U.S. and New Spain |
| Cede | give |
| Annex | add country |
| Convention of 1818 | Britan and US agreed to set a border with Canada and US at the 49th Parallel |
| Industrial Revolution | transition to new manufacturing processes in 1700s, Great Britain |
| Lowell Mill Girls | young female workers who came to work in textile mills in Lowell MA |
| Samuel Slater | British immigrant that came to America and made the first steamed power factory |
| Richard Arkwright | Invented water frame and spinning frame |
| Urbanization | people moving from farms to factories in the city |
| Interchangeable parts | making parts easily repaired |
| Eli Whitney | eli made the concept of interchangeable parts and made the cotton gin |
| Telegraph | device that sent signals using morse code - samuel morse |
| Irish | lived in northeastern cities--worked on railroads and canals |
| German | settled in the Midwest on farms |
| Emigrant | leaving the country |
| Immigrant | entering a new country |
| Potato Famine | Blight caused millions of irish to die |
| Era of Good Feelings | time of political harmony |
| American System | System inducted by Henry clay to help grow society. |
| Henry Clay | Introduced concept of american system- congressmen- kentucky |
| Erie Canal | made a waterway for the New York City to the Great Lakes to connect |
| Nationalism | strong feeling of pride in one’s country |
| Sectionalism | Pride in someones region or section of the country over the nation as a whole |
| Tariff | A tax on imports-- made to protect American manufacturing |
| Infrastructure | nation’s system of transportation and communication |
| Cotton Gin | made picking seeds from cotton easier and faster |
| Memphis | cotton capital- farmers traded cotton along the Mississippi River |
| Deep South | Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas depended on cotton |
| Slave codes | southern laws passed to punish slave behavior |
| Spirituals | Religious songs sung by slaves |
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