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vocab 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| James Monroe | during the era of good feelings he was the 5th president |
| John Quincy Adams | secretary of states for James Manroe |
| Monroe Doctrine | the american policy to not colonize the western hemisphere |
| Latin America | Central/ south america |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | Agreement that gave Florida to the Us by Spain |
| Cede | to give |
| Annex | to introduce a new country |
| Convention of 1818 | Agreement that set a line at the 49th parallel in between Canada/ Britan to the US |
| Industrial Revolution | Economic change that made manufacturing more economically efficient then farming in the late 1700s |
| Lowell Mill Girls | women who worked in the factories in Lowell |
| Samuel Slater | British immigrant that introduced the first steam-powered factory to the United States |
| Richard Arkwright | invented the water frame |
| Urbanization | when people moved from quiet areas to factory homes |
| Interchangeable parts | instead of throwing something out and buying a new one take it apart and fix it |
| Eli Whitney | made cotton gin |
| Telegraph | sends messages through mores code through long distances |
| Irish | moved to the US worked railroads and canals |
| German | mowed to the US settled in midwest US |
| Emigrant | someone who moves out of a country |
| Immigrant | someone who moves into a country |
| Potato Famine | Blight on potatoes that led the death of millions of Irish |
| Era of Good Feelings | A time of political harmony during James Monroe’s presidency |
| American System | a system of economics which was introduced by Henry Clay |
| Henry Clay | The person who introduced the american system |
| Erie Canal | he made a water way that connected from NY to the great lakes |
| Nationalism | very positive feeling from their country |
| Sectionalism | very positive feeling from their religion |
| Tariff | A tax on imports |
| Infrastructure | system of transport |
| Cotton Gin | a device used for cutting cotton faster |
| Memphis | the cotton capitol of the US |
| Deep South | states including Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas |
| Slave codes | passed laws to punish slaves |
| Spirituals | religious songs |