Chapter 11

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Industrial Revolution

Question 2

Where did the Industrial Revolution begin in America?

Answer 2

New England region

Question 3

What is capitalism?

Answer 3

When individuals put their money into a business in hope of making money

Question 4

What is money used for an investment?

Answer 4

Capital

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Free enterprise

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Supply and demand

Question 7

What is technology?

Answer 7

Something that makes work easier

Question 8

What gives inventors legal rights to their inventions?

Answer 8

Patents

Question 9

Who invented the Cotton Gin?

Answer 9

Eli Whitney

Question 10

Who opened the first textile mill in the US?

Answer 10

Samuel Slater

Question 11

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

Answer 11

It went up

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Factories

Question 13

What is the difference between urban and rural?

Answer 13

Urban, city- rural, country

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Roads, steamboats, canals

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Thomas Walker

Question 16

Who was the first permanent European settler in modern day Tennessee?

Answer 16

William Bean

Question 17

Why was the Cumberland Gap important to the Wilderness Road?

Answer 17

Many people were going to gap, so it gave a reason to make a main trail.

Question 18

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

Answer 18

It gave people easy access to get into Tennessee so it caused people to come settle quicker

Question 19

Who blazed the trail for the Wilderness Road?

Answer 19

Daniel Boone

Question 20

Where was the first capital of the Southwest Territory?

Answer 20

Rocky Mount

Question 21

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

Answer 21

William Blount

Question 22

What was important about John Sevier?

Answer 22

First governed of Tennessee was also going govern failed state of Franklin

Question 23

What is a long hunter?

Answer 23

An explorer that went out for over 6 months at a time

Question 24

What is a turnpike?

Answer 24

Roads that you pay to travel on

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Natchez Trace

Question 26

Who created the first steamboat?

Answer 26

Robert Fulton

Question 27

Steamboats improved the transport of what two things?

Answer 27

Passengers and Cargo

Question 28

What are artificial waterways?

Answer 28

Canals

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Erie Canal

Question 30

Who was the President in 1817?

Answer 30

James Manroe

Question 31

What was the Era of Good Feelings?

Answer 31

When politicians were at peace.

Question 32

Why did the Era of Good Feelings not last long?

Answer 32

Because of sectionalism

Question 33

What is the name for showing loyalty to a region?

Answer 33

Sectionalism

Question 34

Who was a chief supporter of state sovereignty?

Answer 34

John C. Calhoun

Question 35

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

Answer 35

The American plan

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Missouri compromise

Question 37

What two states were involved in the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 37

Missouri and Maine

Question 38

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

Answer 38

McChouln vs Maryland

Question 39

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

Answer 39

John Marshall

Question 40

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

Answer 40

Adams-Onis treaty

Question 41

What statement was an important part of American foreign policy?

Answer 41

Monroe's doctrine