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Unit 7 Growth Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| James Monroe | President after War of 1812(5th President); during a time when there only 1 political party. |
| John Quincy Adams | President during XYZ Affair, at the Convention of 1818, worked out the Adams-Onis Treaty (US got Florida). Secretary of the State to James Monroe, |
| Monroe Doctrine | US would protect Latin America if Europe wanted to colonize. US wouldn't take part in Europe Affairs |
| Latin America | Spanish speaking countries-> The opposite of North(South & Central) America, land that Spain once owned(Mexico) |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | US got Florida, caused international incident (3 countries). |
| Cede | to transfer; to grant, bestow, present |
| Annex | to attach more to a nation |
| Convention of 1818 | A treaty with England which set a boundary at the latitude of 49(not perpendicular). |
| Industrial Revolution | Work changed from mainly farming to the manufacturing of goods, it was a change of the economy in the late part of the 1700s. |
| Lowell Mill Girls | Young girls who worked in textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts |
| Samuel Slater | A genius who smuggled plans for the first steam-powered factory in his head from Britain to the US. |
| Richard Arkwright | Guy who invented the water fram |
| Urbanization | The increase in people living in towns and cities |
| Interchangeable parts | Made repairing things easier and cheaper, one part breaks, order another one. Made by Eli Whitney. |
| Eli Whitney | Invented the idea of interchangeable parts and the cotton en(gin)e |
| Telegraph | Used Morse Code, a device that used electric pulses to send it |
| Irish | Came from Ireland, worked on canals, railroads, and lived in the northeast part of the country in cities, came b/c of POTATO BLIGHT |
| German | Came from Germany, worked and settled on farms. |
| Emigrant | Human that leaves a country for a new one |
| Immigrant | Human that arrives in a new country |
| Potato Famine | Reason why many Irish came to US, killed millions(Irish), POTATO BLIGHT |
| Era of Good Feelings | The time after the war of 1812, only 1 political party, best time to be PREZ |
| American System | Henry Clay gave the idea of an economic system so the economy of the US could grow and become independent |
| Henry Clay | War Hawk, congressman from KY, introduced idea of American System |
| Erie Canal | Connects the Great Lakes to New York City- man made |
| Nationalism | Pride in your country |
| Sectionalism | Pride in your state over your country |
| Tariff | American manufacturing taxes that are used to protect it |
| Infrastructure | Transmission and transit of a nation(SYSTEM) |
| Cotton Gin | Cleaned cotton much quicker, increased the demand for slaves |
| Memphis | Cotton Capital of the South |
| Deep South | Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas; Cash Crops; Economy = Agriculture |
| Slave codes | Laws that control slaves; limited their rights and punished slaves |
| Spirituals | African American religious folk songs that the slaves used to sing to profess their faith |
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