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Unit 7 Colonies Voca
Unit 7 Colonies Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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