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Unit 7 Growth Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| James Monroe | President during the Era of Good Feelings, fifth President of the United States |
| John Quincy Adams | Resolved the Convention of 1818 and the Adams-Onis Treaty. Sectaraty of State for President Monroe |
| Monroe Doctrine | A foreign policy made by America to state that Eurpoeans should not colonize in the Western Hemisphere |
| Latin America | A different name for South and Central America, and Mexico |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | A treaty between the US and Spain where the US would give Florida to Spain |
| Cede | To provide with |
| Annex | To increase to a country |
| Convention of 1818 | An understanding between the US and Canada to set a border on the forty-ninth parallel between the two countries |
| Industrial Revolution | A time in the 1700s when economy changed in which farming was replaced by manufacturing as the form of work most used. |
| Lowell Mill Girls | The women and children who worked in the textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts |
| Samuel Slater | He remembered the layout of the British steam powered factories and brought it to America |
| Richard Arkwright | The Water Frame was invented by him |
| Urbanization | When people move from rural areas to urban areas |
| Interchangable parts | When standard parts were made to make repairing things easier |
| Eli Whitney | The Cotton Gin was made by him and the idea of Interchangable Parts |
| Telegraph | This sends messages through Morse code along far distances by electric signals; was created by Samuel F. B. Morse |
| Irish | Immigrants who fled Ireland because of a potato famine. Lived in the northeastern cities and worked on canals and railroads. |
| German | Immigrants from Germany who worked on farms in the Midwest |
| Emigrant | Someone who goes away from another country |
| Immigrant | Someone who enters a new country |
| Potato Famine | Caused the Irish to have many people that died, the potatos were not healthy to eat because they caused sickness |
| Era of Good Feelings | When Monroe was president, there were no conflicts, making that period of time peaceful. The Federalist Party had died down. |
| America System | Henry Clay introduced this system to try to make America self- sufficient |
| Henry Clay | Worked in Kentucky's Congress; Proposed the ides of the American System |
| Erie Canal | Connected the Great Lakes to NYC. Was made by people, not machines |
| Nationalism | The feeling of loving your country and taking pride in it |
| Sectionalism | The feeling of love for a certain area of the country, rather than the whole country |
| Tariff | A tax that was placed on imported goods; The idea was to protect the American manufacturing |
| Infrastructure | Communication and the act of transporting that a nation has |
| Cotton Gin | A machine that helped slaves pick the seeds from the cotton faster; Was made by Eli Whitney |
| Memphis | Where trade was abundant with cotton. Was called the cotton capital of the nation. |
| Deep South | The southern states that grew the most cotton. This included Texas, South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama |
| Slave Codes | Laws passed by the south to humble and rule over the slaves |
| Spirituals | What the slaves sang while working that gave them hope on one day being freed; They were Christian. |
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