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Unit 7 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| james monroe | President during a time called the Era of Good Feelings. The 5th U.S. President |
| John Quincy Adams | secretary of state for Monroe. Created the Adams-Onis Treaty and the Convention of 1818. |
| Monroe Docterine | a policy that said that the US would protect latin america from invasions. and that Europe wasn't allowed to colonize the northern hemisphere. |
| Latin America | south and central america |
| Adams-Onis treaty | agreement that gave Flordia to the US |
| cede | to let someone have to keep |
| annex | when a palce is added to another place or country |
| convention of 1818 | a treety signed with Britain that set the Northern boundary with the louisiana territory. |
| industrial revolution | when manufacturing replaced farming |
| Lowell Mill Girls | worked at the Lowell factory |
| Samuel Slater | english immigrant, memorized the plans for a textile mill |
| Richard Arkwright | invented the water frame in 1769 |
| Urbanization | when people move to the city from rural areas |
| Interchangable parts | when you had multiple of one type of part, made it quicker to repare things |
| Eli Whitney | invented the cottom gin and interchangable parts |
| Telegraph | electrical device that sent slectrical pulses across the country in a seconds worth of time. |
| Irish | came to america because of the potato famine, worked on railroads and canals |
| German | came to the US to escape political rovolutions, settled in the midwest |
| Emigrant | when a person leaves a country to go live in another |
| Imigrant | when a person moves to a new country |
| Potato Famine | when there is a shortage on potatos, lots die |
| era of good feelings | when there was political peace and unity during the time of Monroe's Presidency |
| americain system | introduced by henry clay, so people would become self-sufficient, to grow the US economy |
| Henry Clay | proposed the American System |
| Erie Canal | a waterway that conects the great lakes and New York City |
| Nationalism | when the people in the country have a strong feeling of pride for it |
| sectionalism | when a section of the country has pride |
| tariff | a tax on imported goods |
| infrasrtucture | a countries system of traveling and talking to each other |
| Cotton Gin | device that allowed them to pick 50lbs of cotton per person insted of 1lb per person |
| Memphis | was once the cotton capitol of the south, had fertle soil, perfect for growing cotton |
| Deep south | the most southern states, Alabama, Mississippi, louisiana, Georgia, south carolina and texas |
| slave codes | laws that the southern states passed to punish slaves behavior , also to govern them |
| spirituals | songs that the slaves would sing, usally religious |
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