Chapter 11

Question 0

Where did the Industrial Revolution begin in America?

Answer 0

New England.

Question 1

What was the change from an agrarian society to one based on industry?

Answer 1

Industrial Revolution.

Question 2

What is capitalism?

Answer 2

The economic system of the US.

Question 3

What is money used for an investment?

Answer 3

Capital.

Question 4

What is a system where people are free to buy, sell, and produce what they want and can work where they wish?

Answer 4

Free enterprise/ free market.

Question 5

What sets the prices of goods in a free enterprise system?

Answer 5

Supply and demand.

Question 6

What is technology?

Answer 6

Scientific discoveries that simplify work.

Question 7

What gives inventors legal rights to their inventions?

Answer 7

Patents.

Question 8

Who invented the Cotton Gin?

Answer 8

Eli Whitney.

Question 9

Who opened the first textile mill in the US?

Answer 9

Samuel Salter.

Question 10

What happened to demand for cotton as a result of textile mill growth in New England?

Answer 10

Increased.

Question 11

What was the cause of the growth of cities and towns in the North?

Answer 11

The growth of factories.

Question 12

What is the difference between urban and rural?

Answer 12

Urban- city

Rural- country.

Question 13

How did Pioneers usually migrate west?

Answer 13

Families.

Question 14

What were the three things necessary for Western Expansion in the United States?

Answer 14

Roads
Steamboats
Canals.

Question 15

Who was the first permanent European settler in modern day Tennessee

Answer 15

William bean.

Question 16

Why was the Cumberland Gap important to the Wilderness Road?

Answer 16

Allowed for paths to be created that made passing through the Appalachian mountains easier.

Question 17

What was the importance of the Wilderness Road to the development of Tennessee?

Answer 17

Opened the door for more settlements.

Question 18

Who blazed the trail for the Wilderness Road?

Answer 18

Daniel Boone.

Question 19

What is a turnpike?

Answer 19

Toll roads.

Question 20

Who created the first steamboat?

Answer 20

Robert Fulton.

Question 21

Steamboats improved the transport of what two things?

Answer 21

Goods and passengers.

Question 22

What are artificial waterways?

Answer 22

Canals.

Question 23

Who was the President in 1817?

Answer 23

James Monroe.

Question 24

What was the Era of Good Feelings?

Answer 24

A time when political differences seemed to fade away after the War of 1812.

Question 25

Why did the Era of Good Feelings not last long?

Answer 25

Because the Western expansion of the US led to increase sectionalism, loyalty to a region.

Question 26

What is the name for showing loyalty to a region?

Answer 26

Sectionalism.

Question 27

Who was a chief supporter of state sovereignty?

Answer 27

John C. Calhoun.

Question 28

What was Henry Clay’s system that promoted tariffs to stimulate American industry growth?

Answer 28

The American System.

Question 29

What helped preserve the balance between the North and the South?

Answer 29

The Missouri compromise.

Question 30

What two states were involved in the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 30

Maine and Missouri.

Question 31

What was a court case over states rights that said that state governments could not have power over the national government?

Answer 31

McCullouch vs. Maryland.

Question 32

What treaty was an example of America’s military strength?

Answer 32

The Adams-Onis treaty.

Question 33

What statement was an important part of American foreign policy?

Answer 33

The Monroe Doctrine.