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Unit 7 Vocab Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| James Monroe | 5th president of the United States and started the Monroe Doctrine |
| John Quincy Adams | 6th president of the United States and worked out the Convection of 1818/Adams-Onis Treaty |
| Monroe Doctrine | Warned the US, European affairs were off limits |
| Latin America | Central America, South America, and Mexico |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | Agreement between the United States and Spain, which Spain gave Florida to the US |
| Cede | To give something to another country (money, land, etc) |
| Annex | To add on to an established country |
| Convention of 1818 | Agreement between the United States and Great Britain, which Canada agreed to set the border on the 49th parallel |
| Industrial Revolution | In the late 1700's, farming took over manufacturing as the main form of work |
| Lowell Mill Girls | People that worked in factories in Lowell, Massachusetts |
| Samuel Slater | British immigrant, who invented the first steam powered factory in the US |
| Richard Arkwright | Invented the water frame |
| Urbanization | People went from rural farms to factories in cities |
| Interchangeable parts | Made standardized parts for easier fixes/repairs |
| Eli Whitney | Invented the cotton gin and made the idea of interchangeable parts |
| Telegraph | Sends electrical signals long distance that are attached to a wire that uses dashes and pauses to communicate with another person |
| Irish | Immigrants that lived in northeastern cities, who worked on railroads/canals |
| German | Immigrants that lived on farms in the midwest |
| Emigrant | Someone who leaves a country |
| Immigrant | Someone who moves to a new country |
| Potato Famine | Disease that formed on potatoes, which led to millions of Irish dying |
| Era of Good Feelings | A time of peace when James Monroe was president |
| American System | Grow the US economy so that it would become more self-sufficient |
| Henry Clay | Congressman from Kentucky and had the concept about the American System |
| Erie Canal | Man made waterway that flowed through NYC to the Great Lakes |
| Nationalism | Having a strong feeling of pride in your country |
| Sectionalism | Having pride in a region or section of a country |
| Tariff | Tax on imports to protect American manufacturing |
| Infrastructure | Organization of communication and transportation for a nation |
| Cotton Gin | Removed seeds from cotton at a fast pace |
| Memphis | Many farmers traded cotton along the Mississippi River and is the cotton capital of the south |
| Deep South | States in the South that relied most on cotton - Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and South Carolina |
| Slave Codes | Laws passed to punish the behavior of slaves |
| Sprituals | Religious songs sang by slaves to show their faith |
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