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1
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What was the change from an agrarian society to one based on industry?

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Industrial Revolution

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Where did the Industrial Revolution begin in America?

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New England

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3
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What is capitalism?

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

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4
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What is money used for an investment?

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Capital

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5
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What is a system where people are free to buy, sell, and produce what they want
and can work where they wish?

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Free Enterprise/Free market system

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6
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What sets the prices of goods in a free enterprise system?

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Prices

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7
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What is technology?

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Scientific discoveries that simply work

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8
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What gives inventors legal rights to their inventions?

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Patents

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9
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Who invented the Cotton Gin?

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Eli Whitney

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Who opened the first textile mill in the US?

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Samuel slater

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

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The growth of factories in the North also resulted in a growth of cites and towns

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

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The growth of factories

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What is the difference between urban and rural?

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Urban=cites+Rural=country

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

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Roads
Steamboats
Canals

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

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Dr. Thomas Warlker

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16
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Who was the first permanent European settler in modern day Tennessee?

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William Bean

17
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Why was the Cumberland Gap important to the Wilderness Road?

A

Passing through the Appalachian mountains easier

18
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What was the importance of the Wilderness Road to the development of TN?

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Was a route to Kentucky from the Atlantic coast

19
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Who blazed the trail for the Wilderness Road?

A

Daniel Boone

20
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Where was the first capital of the Southwest Territory?

A

Piney flats TN

21
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Who was the first person to be voted in as a Senator from Tennessee?

A

William Blount

22
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What was important about John Sevier?

A

The first governor of TN

23
Q

What is a long hunter?

A

A American wilderness explorer for at least 6 mouths at a time

24
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What is a turnpike?

A

Toil roads

25
Q

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

A

Natchez trail

26
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Who created the first steamboat?

A

Robert Fulton

27
Q

Steamboats improved the transport of what two things?

A

Goods,passengers

28
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What are artificial waterways?

A

Canals

29
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What canal connected Albany to Buffalo and opened up New York to even more trade opportunities?

A

Erie Canal

30
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Who was the President in 1817?

A

James Monroe

31
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What was the Era of Good Feelings?

A

A time when political differenes seemed to fade away after the war of 1812

32
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Why did the Era of Good Feelings not last long?

A

The western expansion of the us led to increased sectionalism ,loyalty to a region

33
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Who was a chief supporter of state sovereignty?

A

Henry clay

34
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What was Henry Clay’s system that promoted tariffs to stimulate American
industry growth?

A

The American system

35
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What helped preserve the balance between the North and the South?

A

Missouri compromise

36
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What two states were involved in the Missouri Compromise?

A

Maine and Missouri

37
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What was a court case over states rights that said that state governments could not
have power over the national government?

A

McCullough v. Maryland

38
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Who was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for the rulings of Marbury v.
Madison and McCulloh v. Maryland?

A

John Marshall

39
Q

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

A

Adams-onis treaty

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