Chapter 11

Question 1

Where did the Industrial Revolution begin in America?

Answer 1

New England

Question 2

What is capitalism?

Answer 2

The economic systwm of the US.

Question 3

What is money used for an investment?

Answer 3

To make a profit.

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

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

Answer 8

Industrial Revolution

Question 9

Who opened the first textile mill in the US?

Answer 9

Samuel Slater

Question 10

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

Answer 10

It grew

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

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

Answer 13

• Roads
• Steamboats
• Canals

Question 14

Who led a failed expedition into Kentucky, but wrote journal writings that would help future explorers settle there?

Answer 14

Thomas Walker

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

It allowed the Wilderness Road to pass through.

Question 17

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

Answer 17

It made passing through th Appalachin Mountains easier and also opened the doors for new settlemant.

Question 18

Who blazed the trail for the Wilderness Road?

Answer 18

Daniel Boone and 30 more foresters.

Question 19

Where was the first capital of the Southwest Territory?

Answer 19

Rocky Mount

Question 20

Who was the first person to be voted in as a Senator from Tennessee?

Answer 20

William Blount

Question 21

What was important about John Sevier?

Answer 21

He was the first governor of Tennessee.

Question 22

What is a turnpike?

Answer 22

A toll road.

Question 23

What road became important to the development of Tennessee because it allowed farmers to get back to middle Tennessee after selling crops?

Answer 23

The Natchez Trail

Question 24

Who created the first steamboat?

Answer 24

Robert Fulten

Question 25

Steamboats improved the transport of what two things?

Answer 25

Goods and Passengers

Question 26

What are artificial waterways?

Answer 26

Canals

Question 27

What canal connected Albany to Buffalo and opened up New York to even more trade opportunities?

Answer 27

The Erie Canal

Question 28

Who was the President in 1817?

Answer 28

James Monroe

Question 29

What was the Era of Good Feelings?

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Why did the Era of Good Feelings not last long?

Answer 30

The Western Expansion of the US led to increased sectionalism.

Question 31

What is the name for showing loyalty to a region?

Answer 31

Sectionalism

Question 32

Who was a chief supporter of state sovereignty?

Answer 32

John C. Calhoun

Question 33

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

Answer 33

The "American System"

Question 34

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

Answer 34

The Missouri Compromise

Question 35

What two states were involved in the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 35

Maine and Missouri

Question 36

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

Answer 36

McColloh v. Maryland

Question 37

Who was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for the rulings of Marbury v. Madison and McCulloh v. Maryland?

Answer 37

John Marshall

Question 38

What treaty was an example of America’s military strength and allowed Florida to become part of the country?

Answer 38

The Adams-onis treaty

Question 39

What statement was an important part of American foreign policy?

Answer 39

The Monroe Doctrine