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What invention of Eli Whitney’s help rifles?

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Interchangeable parts

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How do you protect your invention from being copied?

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patent

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What canal connects the great lakes to the city?

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Erie canal

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What kind of roads are made of flat boards?

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plank roads

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What kind of roads are made of cut down trees with logs?

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corduroy roads

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What was the fastest ship built?

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clipper ship

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What is the mail company that delivers mail on horse back?

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pony express

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What is the movement to destroy slavery?

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Abolition

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What is the term for a model society in harmony in Indiana?

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utopia

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Who pained the portrait of George Washington that appears on the one dollar bill?

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Gilbert Stuart

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Who is the most popular american ballad writer?

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Stephen Foster

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What is the term for high taxes put on imported goods?

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protective tariff

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What was the three fold plan suggested to boost american economy called?

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american system

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Who proposed the three fold plan to boost the american colony?

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Henry Clay

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What is the famous road built in Baltimore moving west?

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national road

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What is the compromise that aloud Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state?

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Missouri Compromise

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What is the political party that exist still today that is for the common man?

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Democratic party

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What was the nickname given to the group of people that President Jackson listened to as advisers more than his presidential cabinet?

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Kitchen Cabinet

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What is the system President Jackson had of rewarding supporters with a government position?

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spoil system

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What is the name of the national bank President Jackson wanted to “kill”?

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Bank of United States

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What group of Indians in Florida did Jackson try to remove?

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Seminole

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What was Jackson’s policy towards Indians?

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He had a removal Policy

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Who was the Presidential Candidate that had the saying “Tippecanoe and Tyler too”?

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William Henry Harrison

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When Jackson ran for president what topic was prominent? (like now it is ISIS and national debt)

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The national Bank.

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After the war of 1812 did national pride go up or down?
Up
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True or False: America always had a national Bank.
False
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What Political Party formed a hate Jackson? (like the republicans hate obama)
Wig party
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Who was the person responsible for picking president in the election of 1824?
Henry Clay
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Jackson ran in 1828. Who was the "little magician that helped him?
Van Buren
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Who does protective tariffs help out the most?
manufacturers in the country that makes that tariff.
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First President to get majority of popular votes and lost?
Jackson
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What political party first held the national convention?
anti-masonic party
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True or False: We have always had a national bank.
Fasle
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Was Jackson's veto on the national bank positive or negative on the people?
negative
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What indian group more developed and accepted white man policies?
Cherokees
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What is the most famous controversial protective tariff called?
Abominations
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Name all four of the unorthodox religions listed in the book?
Unitarianism, Shakers, Millerites, Mormonism
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Who was the founder of the public school system?
Horace Mann
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Were the first public schools religiously focussed?
No
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What is the school centered on unitarianism teachings?
Harvard
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What newspaper was known for writing sensational stories? (not necessarily true)
New York Sun
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What newspaper wrote political stories?
Tribune
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What is the nickname for cheap daily newspaper?
penny newspaper
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What industry developed when hard coal was discovered?
Iron
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What profession was part of the Hudson River School?
Painters
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What was the most important crop in the middle of the 19th century (1800s)?
cotton
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What area of the country defended slavery as a positive thing for Blacks?
South
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What part of the cotton process was the cotton gin used for to speed things up?
cleaning
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It was hard to travel upstream until this invention?
teamboat
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Who invented the steam boat?
Robert Fulton
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What are the private roads that charged a toll called?
Turnpikes
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Canals were the main way of traveling until what was invented?
Trains/railroads
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What was the name of the first steam boat?
Clermont
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What was the first successful railroad?
B+O railroad
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What invention made the money express almost irrelevant?
Telegraph
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To what country was a telegraph line laid over the atlantic from the U.S.?
England
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What was the telegraph cable called that stretched from the U.S. across the atlantic?
Trans-atlantic Cable
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The Millerite's whole religion is based on what principal?
Second Coming of Christ
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What is the movement to get rid of alcohol?
Prohibition
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What is America's Largest denomination after the great awakening?
Methodists
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what was the greatest second great awakening meeting?
cain ridge Kentucky
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Who is the founder of mormonism?
Joseph Smith
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What is the term for having more than one wife?
polygamy
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What city is the center of mormonism?
Salt lake city, Utah
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What is the known by some as the third great awakening?
Prayer meeting revival
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Who led the prayer meeting revivals?
Jeremiah Lanphier
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What great textile worker was not stopped from immigrating to U.S. by Great Britain
Samuel Slater
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Who protected the plow?
John Deere
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Who what devout Christian made the reaping machine?
Cyrus McCormick
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Under what New York Governor was the Erie Canal Built to New York?
DeWitt Clinton
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Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel F. B. Morse
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Who was the most important abolitionist leader?
William Lloyd Garrison
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Who was against slavery and helped thousands of slaves escape?
Harriet Tubman
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Who was america's first greatest painter?
Benjamin West
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Age between inauguration of washington to jackson was known as the what?
Federalist years
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What was americas first missions board?
American Board of Commissioners for foreign missions. (ABCFM)
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Who was the founder of christian Science?
Mary Baker Eddy

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