Chapter 11

Question 1

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

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Question 2

Where did the Industrial Revolution begin in America?

Answer 2

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Question 3

What is capitalism?

Answer 3

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Question 4

What is money used for an investment?

Answer 4

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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

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Question 6

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

Answer 6

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Question 7

What is technology?

Answer 7

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Question 8

What gives inventors legal rights to their inventions?

Answer 8

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Question 9

Who invented the Cotton Gin?

Answer 9

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Question 10

Who opened the first textile mill in the US?

Answer 10

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Question 11

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

Answer 11

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Question 12

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

Answer 12

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Question 13

What is the difference between urban and rural?

Answer 13

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Question 14

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

Answer 14

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Question 15

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

Answer 15

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Question 16

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

Answer 16

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Question 17

Why was the Cumberland Gap important to the Wilderness Road?

Answer 17

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Question 18

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

Answer 18

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Question 19

Who blazed the trail for the Wilderness Road?

Answer 19

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Question 20

Where was the first capital of the Southwest Territory?

Answer 20

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Question 21

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

Answer 21

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Question 22

What was important about John Sevier?

Answer 22

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Question 23

What is a long hunter?

Answer 23

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Question 24

What is a turnpike?

Answer 24

Private toll road

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

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Question 26

Who created the first steamboat?

Answer 26

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Question 27

Steamboats improved the transport of what two things?

Answer 27

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Question 28

What are artificial waterways?

Answer 28

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Question 29

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

Answer 29

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Question 30

Who was the President in 1817?

Answer 30

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Question 31

What was the Era of Good Feelings?

Answer 31

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Question 32

Why did the Era of Good Feelings not last long?

Answer 32

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Question 33

What is the name for showing loyalty to a region?

Answer 33

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Question 34

Who was a chief supporter of state sovereignty?

Answer 34

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Question 35

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

Answer 35

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Question 36

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

Answer 36

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Question 37

What two states were involved in the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 37

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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

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Question 39

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

Answer 39

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Question 40

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

Answer 40

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Question 41

What statement was an important part of American foreign policy?

Answer 41

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