07 Growth and Division, 1816-1832

Question 1

cotton gin

Answer 1

machine for removing cotton seeds from cotton bolls

Question 2

Democratic-Republican

Answer 2

political party formed by supporters of Andrew Jackson

Question 3

Denmark Vesey

Answer 3

free African American who operated a woodworking shop in South Carolina and allegedly planned an armed revolt to free the region’s slaves

Question 4

driver

Answer 4

director of a work gang on large plantations

Question 5

Eli Whitney

Answer 5

American inventor of the cotton gin and developer of interchangeable parts

Question 6

Era of Good Feelings

Answer 6

phrase used to describe James Monroe’s presidency because of the harmony in national politics

Question 7

favorite son

Answer 7

man who enjoyed the support of leaders from his own state and region

Question 8

Francis C. Lowell

Answer 8

industrialist who built textile machinery in the United States after touring British textile mills; opened a series of textile mills in Massachusetts; introduced mass production of cotton cloth to the US

Question 9

Frederick Douglass

Answer 9

former slave who became a prominent leader of the antislavery movement

Question 10

gang system

Answer 10

labor system on large plantations in which enslaved persons were organized into work gangs that labored from sunup to sundown

Question 11

Henry Clay

Answer 11

made Secretary of State after the election of 1824

Question 12

Industrial Revolution

Answer 12

time of change in business and industry in which manufacturing shifted from hand tools to large, complex machines; goods were made in factories instead of workshops in homes

Question 13

interchangeable parts

Answer 13

uniform pieces that can be made in large quantities to replace other identical pieces

Question 14

John C. Calhoun

Answer 14

Republican who proposed the Second Bank of the United States and sponsored a federal internal improvement plan

Question 15

John Marshall

Answer 15

Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court whose rulings helped establish a strong federal government

Question 16

Kinache

Answer 16

Seminole leader who warned a U.S. general to stay out of Florida

Question 17

labor union

Answer 17

organization of workers that works for better wages and working conditions

Question 18

Missouri Compromise

Answer 18

agreement for admitting Maine to the Union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state

Question 19

mudslinging

Answer 19

political campaign in which candidates criticize each other’s personalities and principles

Question 20

Nat Turner

Answer 20

enslaved minister who led an armed uprising in Virginia to free slaves

Question 21

National Road

Answer 21

major east-west highway started in 1811 that by 1818 ran from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia)

Question 22

planter

Answer 22

plantation owner

Question 23

protective tariff

Answer 23

tax on goods to help domestic manufacturers by taxing imports to drive up their prices

Question 24

Quadruple Alliance

Answer 24

formed by the European countries of Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, and later France, in order to put down movements against monarchies in Europe

Question 25

revenue tariff

Answer 25

tax on goods that provides income for the federal government

Question 26

Robert Fulton

Answer 26

American inventor who designed and built the Clermont, the steamboat that traveled upstream on the Hudson River in 1807

Question 27

Samuel F. B. Morse

Answer 27

American inventor who perfected the telegraph and developed a code for sending messages

Question 28

slave codes

Answer 28

state laws that limited the legal rights of enslaved persons

Question 29

strike

Answer 29

work stoppage

Question 30

task system

Answer 30

labor system used in the South on farms and small plantations in which enslaved workers were given a set of specific jobs to accomplish every day and worked until these were complete

Question 31

William Crawford

Answer 31

candidate in the presidential election of 1824 who represented the South

Question 32

yeoman farmers

Answer 32

ordinary Southern farmer who owned four or fewer slaves, but usually worked the land themselves

Question 33

7.1 Summarize how the Supreme Court rulings in McCulloch v Maryland and Gibbons v Ogden strengthened the federal government.

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Question 34

7.2 List the changes that occurred as a result of the Industrial Revolution.

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Question 35

7.3 Explain why industry lagged in the South compared to the North.

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Question 36

7.4 Compare the different campaign strategies of the candidates in the 1824 election.

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