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Unit 7 Vocab. Terms
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| james monroe | 5th president of the United States during the Era of Good Feelings |
| john quincy adams | James Monroe's secretary of states, worked out the Adams-Onis treaty and Convention of 1818 |
| monroe doctrine | America's foreign policy that stated Europe was no longer to colonize the Western Hemisphere |
| latin america | Another name for Mexico, Central and South America |
| adams-onis treaty | Agreement between Spain and the United States that gave Florida to the United States |
| cede | to give |
| annex | to add to a country |
| convention of 1818 | Agreement between Britian and the US that set border with Canada at the 49th parallel |
| industrial revolution | the economin changes in the late 1700s in which manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work |
| lowell mill girls | workers in the factories at Lowell, Massachusetts |
| samuel slater | British immigrant that introduced the first steam-powered factory to the United States |
| richard arkwright | Inventor of the water frame |
| urbanization | the process of people moving from rural farms to factories in cities |
| interchangeable parts | A process of making standardized parts for easier and quicker repairs |
| eli whitney | Inventor of the cotton gin and the concept of interchangeable parts |
| telegraph | A device that sent electrical signals long distance across wire using dashes and pauses |
| irish | immigrants that worked on railroads and canals and lived in northeastern cities |
| german | immigrants to US that settled in the Midwest on farms |
| Emigrant | a person leaving a country |
| immigrant | a person moving to a new country |
| potato famine | Blight on potatoes that led to the death of millions of Irish |
| era of good feelings | A time of political harmony during James Monroe's presidency |
| American system | an economic system introduced by Hnery Clay to grow the US economy so that is would become self-sufficient |
| Henry Clay | Proponent of the American system and Congressman from Kentucky |
| Erie Canal | A man made waterway that connected New York city to the Great Lakes |
| Nationalism | A strong feeling of pride in one's country |
| Sectionalism | Pride in one's region or section of the country over the nation as a whole |
| Tariff | A tax on imports, passed to protect American manufacturing |
| Infrastructure | A nation's system of transportation and communication |
| Cotton Gin | A device that sped up the process of removing seeds from cotton |
| Memphis | The cotton capitol of the south, where farmers traded cotton along the Mississippi river |
| Deep South | southern states that relied the most on cotton - Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas |
| Slave Codes | Laws passed by Southern states to govern and punish the behavior of slaves |
| Spirituals | Religious folk songs sung by slaves to express their faith |
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