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Unit 7 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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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 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 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 | That worked on railroads and canals and lived in northeastern cities |
German 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 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 the death of millions of Irish |
Know Nothings | A political party formed to prevent immigrants from voting and serving 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 |
Eerie 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, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas |
Slave Codes | Laws passed by southern states to govern and punish the slave 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 |