Chapter 11 Sec. 2 Flashcards
CENSUS
The official count of the population. IN 1790 the first CENSUS was taken. A census is an official count of the population. The census found that neatly 4 million people lived in the Untied States. Most Americans lived in the Appalachian Mountains.
CANAL
Waterway made by the people. Steamboats improves river transportation. However steamboats could not link the eastern to the western parts of the country. De Witt Clinton and other officials made a plan to link New York City with the Great Lakes region. They would build a CANAL across the state of New York.
LOCKS
A seperate compartment in which water levels rise and fall in order to raise or lower boats on a canal. Thousands of workers built the Erie Canal. Many were Irish immigrants. They built a serious of LOCKS along the canal.
TURNPIKE
A road on which tolls are collected. Roads were the way to move people and goods inland. Some companies built TURNPIKES. Travelers paid tolls, or fees, to use the turnpike. This helped pay for building them.
WHAT HELPED INCREASE THE MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE AND GOODS?
It help because they were starting to make roads, and that was a major thing because it made it easier to travel. Daniel Boone got 30 workers. They widened Warrior’s Path and cleared rocks from the Cumberland Gap. They cut down tres in Kentucky. They marked the trail. The road was given a name, the Wilderness Road. More that 100,000 people traveled on this road between 1775 and 1790.
WHY DID AMERICANS TEND TO SETTLE NEAR RIVERS?
Some reasons why are to make traveling easier if you were to travel my water, it was easier to ship goods and services, and they have a long lasting water supply.
HOW DOES GEOGRAPHY INFLUENCE THE WAY PEOPLE LIVE?
Need to be able to ship, and farm.
SECTIONALISM
Rivalry based on the special interrests of different areas. Each section of the country has a voice in Congress. Henry Clay spoke for the west. John C. Calhoun of the South Carolina spoke for the south. Daniel Webster spoke of Massachusetts spoke for the North. Each leader tried to protect the interests of his own section of the country.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE
Economic activity taking place between two or more states.In Gibbons v. Odgen, the Court ruled the only Congress could make laws governing INTERSTATE COMMERCE or trade between states.
MONOPOLY
A market where there is only one seller. The state of New York had granted a MONOPOLY to a steamship operator.
CEDE
To transfer control of something.The Adams-Onis treaty was signed in 1819. In the treaty, Spain CEDED, or gave up, Florida. At the same time Spain was losing power in Mexico. In 1821 Mexico finally gained it independence.
HOW DID THE COUNTRY CHANGE AFTER THE WAR OF 1812?
The feeling of national unity grew in the United States after the War of 1812. The newspaper called these years The Era of Good Feelings. Other feelings at the time were those of loyalty to the nation, or nationlism.
HOW DID THE UNITED STATES DEFINE IT ROLES IN THE AMERICAS?
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THE MONROE DOCTRINE
The Monroe Doctrine said that European powers could no longer set up colonies in North America and South America.
THE RUSH-BAGOT AGREEMENT
The Rush-Magot agreemen, it called for each country to limit the number of war ships on the Great Lakes.
