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

Individuals put their capital into a business in hopes of making a profit

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 Market/ Free Enterprise System

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

Anything that makes something easier for you

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 Slater

Question 10

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

Answer 10

It 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

As families

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Roads, steamboats, and 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

It allowed a path to be created that made passing through the Appalachians much easier

Question 17

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

Answer 17

It made passing through the mountains easier and opened the door for more settlement

Question 18

Who blazed the trail for the Wilderness Road?

Answer 18

Daniel Boone and 30 foresters

Question 19

What is a turnpike?

Answer 19

Road on which tolls are collected

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

The Western Expansion of the US led to increased sectionalism

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

Missouri and Maine

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

McCulloch v. 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 Western Hemisphere was no longer open for colonization

The US would regard any interference in Western hemispheric affairs as a threat to its security