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S.S. Unit 7 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| James Monroe | President after War of 1812, during a time when there was only one political party |
| John Quincy Adams | Was part of James Monroe's cabinet as his Secretary of State and helped to work out many agreements including the Convection of 1818 and the Adams-Onis treaty |
| Monroe Doctrine | Written by James Monroe and told europe that they could no longer settle in America |
| Latin America | It is the area that is Mexico and central/south america |
| Cede | to give a piece of land to another country |
| Annex | when land is added to a country |
| Convention of 1818 | It is a treaty that set the 49th parallel as a border between Canada and America and was between Britain and America |
| industrial revolution | When in the late 1700s manufacturing began being the main form of work in the Americas instead of farming |
| Lowell Mill Girls | Young girls who worked in the Lowell Mill Factories and were treated very poorly |
| Samuel Slater | Memorized the factory plans of england and brought them over to America; he established the first steam powered factory in America |
| Richard Arkwright | developed and built the water frame |
| Urbanization | when people decide to move to cities and factories from the country/rural areas |
| Interchangeable parts | when a good is broken up into many pieces and are labeled, making repairs cheaper and quicker, to the point where you can do it at home |
| Eli Whitney | created the theory of interchangeable parts and developed the cotton gin |
| Telegraph | using morse code, it can send messages across long distances in seconds |
| Irish | immigrated to America and lived in northeastern cities/worked on canals in railroads in those cities |
| German | immigrated to America and lived on farms in the Midwest |
| Emigrant | when a person leaves a country |
| Immigrant | when a person comes to a new country to live there |
| Potato Famine | push factor for Irish to leave because it was a blight on potatoes that killed millions of the irish people |
| Era of Good Feelings | During James Monroe's presidency there was only one political party causing there to be no conflict |
| American System | Henry Clay proposed it because he wanted the economy of America to become independent of any other country |
| Henry Clay | From Kentucky and was a congressman and developed the American system |
| Erie Canal | A waterway that connected the Great Lakes to New York and was man-made |
| Nationalism | A strong sense of pride in a country, typically yours |
| Sectionalism | A strong sense of pride in a section/region, typically yours |
| Tariff | Part of Hamilton's plan and was a tax on imports in order to protect America's manufacturing |
| Infastructure | A country's way of transportation/communication |
| Cotton Gin | Increased the amount of cotton produced a day to 50 lbs. because it sped up the process of removing the seeds from the cotton |
| Memphis | Called the Cotton Capital of the South because so many framers traded cotton/slaves there |
| Deep South | Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas, and they relied the most on the production of cotton |
| Slave Codes | They were passed by plantation owners to discipline/punish slaves |
| Spirituals | They were sung by slaves because they needed a way to express their faith |
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