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Unit 7 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Industrial Revolution | the economic change in the late 1700's in which manufactoring replaced farming as the main form of work. |
Lowell Mill Girls | workers in the factories in Lowell, Massachusetts. |
Samuel Slater | British immigrant that introduced the first steam-powered factory to the US. |
Richard Arkwright | Inventor of the water frame. |
Trade Union | organization formed by a group of factory workers to achieve better working conditions. |
Urbanization | the process of people moving from rural farms to factories in cities. |
Interchangeable Parts | a process of making standarized parts for easier and quicker repairs |
Eli Whitney | Inventor of the cotton grin and the concept of interchangeable parts. |
Telegraph | a device that sends electrical signals long distance across wire using dashes and pauses |
Irish Immigrants | Immigrants from Ireland that worked on railroads and canals and lived in northeastern cities. |
Germans Immigrants | to US that settled in the Midwest on farms. |
Emigrant | A person leaving a country |
Immigrant | a person moving to a new country. |
Push Factor | a reason for leaving a country- like war, economic depression, famine |
Pull Factor | a reason a person settles in a new place- like a new job, more political freedom, and social mobility. |
Potato Famine | Blight on potatoes that led to the death of millions of Irish people. |
Know Nothing's | 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 Missisippi River. |
Deep South | Southern States that relied the most on cotton; Alabama, Missisippi, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas. |
Slave Codes | Laws passed by southern states to govern and punish the behavior of slaves. |
Spirituals | Religous folk 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 ways in which enslaved people resisted slavery; like breaking farm equipment or faking an illness. |