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Unit 7 Colonies Voca
Unit 7 Colonies Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Industrial Revolution | the economic 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 who 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 conditions |
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 distances across wire using dashes and pauses |
Irish Immigrants | worked on railroads and canals and lived in Northeastern cities |
German Immigrants | worked on farms in the Midwest |
Emigrant | a person leaving a country |
Immigrant | a person moving to a new country |
Push Factor | a reason for leaving a country, like war, famine, and economic depression |
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 to 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, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas |
Slaves 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 |
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 |