Unit 10 Vocabulary

8th Grade US History SBMS

the legal prohibition and ending of slavery

abolition

the policy of promoting industry in the U.S. by

adoption of a high protective tariff and of developing internal improvements by the federal government (as advocated by Henry Clay from 1816 to 1828)

American System

a count of the population

Census

cotton gina machine for separating the fibers of cotton from the seeds.

departing or having departed from a country

to settle elsewhere

emigrant

the system of manufacturing that began in the

18th century with the development of the power loom and the steam engine and is based on concentration of industry into large establishments

factory system

The change from a agrarian society to one

based on industry which began in Great Britain and spread to the US around the 1800’s.

Industrial revolution

Industrial Revolution

Uniform pieces that can be made in large

quantities to replace other identical pieces

interchangeable part

The idea popular in the US during the 1800’s

that the country must expand its boundaries to the Pacific.

Manifest Destiny

A frontiersman living in the wilderness, as in

the Rocky Mountains

Mountain Men

to put or change into an improved form or

condition

reform

The right to vote

suffrage

The application of scientific discoveries to

practical use

technology

The use of little or no alcoholic drink

temperance

Any of a group of New England writers who

stressed the relationship between human beings and nature, spiritual things over material things, and the importance of the individual conscience.

transcendentalist

A road that one must pay to use; the money is

used to pay for the road

turnpikes