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Unit 7 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Industrial Revolution | the economic changes in the late 1700 in which farming replaced 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 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 distance across wire using dashes and pauses |
| Irish Immigrants | worked on railroads and canals and lived in northeastern cities |
| German Immigrants | to Us that settled in the Midwest Farms |
| Emigrant | A person leaving a country |
| Immigrant | A person moving to a new country |
| Push Factor | A reason for leaving the country like war, economic depression, famine |
| Pull factor | a reason why a person settles in a place like a new job, more political freedom, and social mobility |
| Potato famine | Blight on potatoes that led the deaths of millions of Irish |
| Know nothings | A political harmony during James Monroe's presidency |
| American system | an economic system introduced by by Henry Clay to grow the US economy so that it would become self- sufficient |
| Henry Clay | proponent of the American system and Congress man from Kentucky |
| Erie Canal | a man made waterway that connected NYC to the Great Lakes |
| Nationalism | A strong feeling of pride in ones 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 |
| 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 way in which enslaved people resisted slavery - like breaking farm equipment or faking an illness |
| Era of Good feelings | A time of political harmony during James Monroe’s presidency |