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Unit 7 Vocab Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| James Monroe | He was the 5th President of the US. He served during the Era of Good Feelings. |
| John Quincy Adams | He was James Monroe' s Secretary of States and handled the Adams-Onis Treaty and the Convention of 1818. |
| Monroe Doctirne | A treaty worked out between America and Europe claiming that Europe couldn' t colonize the West Hemisphere. |
| Latin America | Mexico, Central and South America |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | An arrangement between Spain and the US offically making Florida a part of the US. |
| Cede | To surrender |
| Annex | To add to something; an extra |
| Convection of 1818 | An agreement stating that the border between Britain and the US was the 49th parallel. |
| Lowell Mill Girls | women factory workers in Lowel, MA |
| Samuel Slater | He stole the British ideas of the first steam-powered factory and brought it to the US. |
| Richard Arkwright | He was the inventor of the water frame |
| urbanization | it was the era of people moving out of rural farms to investing in factories in big cities. |
| interchangeable parts | making certain parts to make repairs easier and quicker |
| eli whitney | he was the inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts |
| telegraph | a device sending electral signals to communicate from long distances using dashes and dots |
| irish | immigrants that lived in northeastern cities in the US and worked on railroads |
| german | immigrants that lived in the midwest on farms |
| emigrant | person leaving country |
| immigrant | person moving to new country |
| potato famine | the reason the irish left ireland |
| era of good feeling | time of peace among political powers during james monroes presidnecy |
| american system | economic system to help grow the us economy so the us would become self sufficient, introduced by henry clay. |
| erie canal | waterway connecting nyc to the great lakes |
| nationalism | a strong feeling of pride for your country |
| sectionalism | pride in certain section besides whole nation |
| tariff | tax on imports to protect american manfacturing |
| infrastructure | nations system of communication and transportation |
| cotton gin | a device which sped up the process of removing seeds from cotton to make clothes |
| memphis | cotton capital of the south, where famers traded cotton along mississippi river |
| deep south | the states that relied on cotton the most. alabama, mississippi, louisianna, georgia, etc. |
| slave codes | laws the south passed to govern the slaves, used as punishment |
| spirticuals | religious songs sung by slaves to show faith |
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