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james monroe   5th president of the United States during the Era of Good Feelings  
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john quincy adams   James Monroe's secretary of states, worked out the Adams-Onis treaty and Convention of 1818  
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monroe doctrine   America's foreign policy that stated Europe was no longer to colonize the Western Hemisphere  
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latin america   Another name for Mexico, Central and South America  
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adams-onis treaty   Agreement between Spain and the United States that gave Florida to the United States  
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cede   to give  
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annex   to add to a country  
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convention of 1818   Agreement between Britian and the US that set border with Canada at the 49th parallel  
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industrial revolution   the economin changes in the late 1700s in which manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work  
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lowell mill girls   workers in the factories at Lowell, Massachusetts  
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samuel slater   British immigrant that introduced the first steam-powered factory to the United States  
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richard arkwright   Inventor of the water frame  
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urbanization   the process of people moving from rural farms to factories in cities  
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interchangeable parts   A process of making standardized parts for easier and quicker repairs  
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eli whitney   Inventor of the cotton gin and the concept of interchangeable parts  
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telegraph   A device that sent electrical signals long distance across wire using dashes and pauses  
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irish   immigrants that worked on railroads and canals and lived in northeastern cities  
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german   immigrants to US that settled in the Midwest on farms  
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Emigrant   a person leaving a country  
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immigrant   a person moving to a new country  
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potato famine   Blight on potatoes that led to the death of millions of Irish  
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era of good feelings   A time of political harmony during James Monroe's presidency  
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American system   an economic system introduced by Hnery Clay to grow the US economy so that is would become self-sufficient  
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Henry Clay   Proponent of the American system and Congressman from Kentucky  
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Erie Canal   A man made waterway that connected New York city to the Great Lakes  
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Nationalism   A strong feeling of pride in one's country  
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Sectionalism   Pride in one's region or section of the country over the nation as a whole  
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Tariff   A tax on imports, passed to protect American manufacturing  
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Infrastructure   A nation's system of transportation and communication  
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Cotton Gin   A device that sped up the process of removing seeds from cotton  
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Memphis   The cotton capitol of the south, where farmers traded cotton along the Mississippi river  
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Deep South   southern states that relied the most on cotton - Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas  
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Slave Codes   Laws passed by Southern states to govern and punish the behavior of slaves  
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Spirituals   Religious folk songs sung by slaves to express their faith  
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