The Nation Grows And Prospers

Question 1

What was unusual about the factory town of Lowell Massachusetts

Answer 1

Five farm families turned into 10,000 people because of the booming success of the industry

Question 2

What were conditions like for workers during the early industrial revolution

Answer 2

They had to work long hours and child labor was happening

Question 3

Describe three ways in which American cities were changed by the early industrial revolution

Answer 3

Urbanization, attractions, and hazards

Question 4

What route did settlers used to reach the west in the early 1800s

Answer 4

They use the great Wagonroad and the wilderness Road

Question 5

Describe two ways in which road transportation improved in the early 1800s

Answer 5

Turnpikes/Corduroy Road and a national Road

Question 6

What role did the steamboat Play in the growing nation

Answer 6

It carried people and transported goods

Question 7

How did Calhoun Webster and Clay each represent the views of his own section

Answer 7

Calhoun wanted slavery, Webster opposed slavery, and Clay want a more active government

Question 8

How did protective tariffs help American industry after the war of 1812

Answer 8

Imported goods were made more expensive it helped establish mills and factories

Question 9

Why did southerners oppose Clay’s American system

Answer 9

They opposed to paying for roads and canals

Question 10

How did supreme court ruling give federal government greater power

Answer 10

They promoted economic growth

Question 11

How did revolutions change Latin America

Answer 11

It formed Mexico into a republic

Question 12

How did the United States acquired Florida

Answer 12

Andrew Jackson headed to Florida with over 3000 soldiers

Question 13

Why was the Monro doctrine issued

Answer 13

It declared that the US would oppose European affairs

Question 14

What is direct involvement

Answer 14

Intervention

Question 15

What is a person born in Spain’s American colonies to Spanish parents

Answer 15

Creole

Question 16

What is Loyalty to a state or section rather than to the whole country

Answer 16

Sectionalism

Question 17

What is a road made of logs

Answer 17

Corduroy road

Question 18

What is a road built by a private company that charges a toll to use it

Answer 18

Turnpike

Question 19

What is a boat with a flat bottom use for transporting heavy loads on Inlands waterways

Answer 19

Flatboat

Question 20

What is the movement of population from farms to cities

Answer 20

Urbanization

Question 21

What is a person who invest in a business to make a profit

Answer 21

Capitalist

Question 22

What is money raised for a business venture

Answer 22

Capital

Question 23

What is a machine developed in 1764 that could spin several threads at once

Answer 23

Spinning Jenny

Question 24

How did Samuel Slater bring the industrial revolution to the United States

Answer 24

Slater broke British law and left to share machinery secrets to the US in exchange for large rewards

Question 25

Describe three ways in which transportation improved in the early 1800s

Answer 25

Steam transport, better roads, and canal transports

Question 26

Why did southerners oppose the protective tariff while northern manufacturers supported it

Answer 26

The south oppose the tariff because it raised prices on European goods that the south favor and forced Southerners to buy costly American-made goods. The north favored the terrace because it kept Europeans from selling their goods at a lower price then American goods

Question 27

Why was British support of the Monro doctrine important to its success

Answer 27

It was important because the British had a strong navy

Question 28

What is the relationship between the war of 1812 and economic change in the United States

Answer 28

You provided to American industries

Question 29

How did steam power help change the way goods were manufactured

Answer 29

He gave farmers and merchants a cheap way of moving goods

Question 30

How did the industrial Revolution begin in the United States?

Answer 30

Machines replaced hand power and other power replaced manpower