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Unit 7 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Industrial Revolution | the economic changes in the late 1700s in which manufacturing 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 |
| Trade Union | organization formed by a group of factory workers to achieve better working condition |
| Urbanization | the process of people moving from rural farms to factories in cities |
| Interchangeable parts | A process of making standardized parts fir 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 | worked on railroads and canals and lived in northeastern cities |
| German Immigrants to US | settled in the Midwest on farms |
| Emigrant | a person leaving a country |
| Immigrant | A person moving to a country |
| Push Factor | A reason for leaving a country - like war, economic depression, famine |
| Pull Factor | A reason why a person settles in a new place- like a new job, more political freedom and social mobility |
| Potato Famine | Blight on potatoes that led the death of millions of Irish |
| Know Nothings | A political party formed to prevent immigrants from voting and serving in office |
| Era of Good Feelings | A time of political harmony during James Monroe's presidency |
| American System | An economic system introduced by Henry Clay to grow the US economy so that it 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 capital 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, Texas |
| Slave codes | Laws passed by southern states to govern and punish slave the behavior of slaves |
| Spiritual | Religious folks songs sung by slaves to express their faith |
| Overt | Form of resistance in which enslaved people openly resisted slavery- like running away or rebelling |
| Passive | Indirect way in which enslaved people resisted slavery- like breaking farm equipment or faking an illness |