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Unit 7 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Industrial Revloution | The economic changes in the late 1700 s in which manufacturing replaced farming as the main worked form |
Lowell Mill Girls | Girls workers in the factories at Lowell, Massachusetts |
Samuel Slater | British immigrant that introduced the first steam-powered factory in 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 to 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 | That worked on railroads and canals and lived in northeastern cities |
German Immigrants | To US that settled in them Midwest on farms |
Push Factor | A reason for leaving a county - like warm economic depression, famine |
Pull factor | A reason why a 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 immigrant 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 |
Henry Clay | Proponent of the American system and congressman from Kentucky |
Emigrant | A person leaving a country |
immigrant | A person moving to a new country |
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 | Prides in one's region or section of the country over the nation as a whole |
Tariff | A tax on imports pass 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 the southern states to govern and punish slaves and the behavior of slaves |
Spirtuals | Religious folk songs sung by slaves to express their faith |
Overt | Form of resistance in which enslaves people openly resisted slavery - like running away or rebelling |
Passive | Indirect way in which enslaved people resisted slavery - like breaking farm equipment and faking an illness |