Chapter 11 Study Guide

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Industrial Revolution

Question 2

Where did the Industrial Revolution begin in America?

Answer 2

New England

Question 3

Individuals putting their Capitol into a business in hopes of making a profit since

Answer 3

Capitalism

Question 4

What is money used for an investment?

Answer 4

Capital

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

Free Enterprise/Free Market system

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Supply and demand

Question 7

What is technology?

Answer 7

Scientific discoveries that simplify work

Question 8

What gives inventors legal rights to their inventions?

Answer 8

Patents

Question 9

Who invented the Cotton Gin?

Answer 9

Eli Whitney

Question 10

Who opened the first textile mill in the US?

Answer 10

Samuel Slater

Question 11

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

Answer 11

It grew

Question 12

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

Answer 12

The growth of factories in the north

Question 13

What is the difference between urban and rural?

Answer 13

Urban=city

Rural=country

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Roads
Steamboats
Canals

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Dr.Thomas Walker

Question 16

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

Answer 16

William Bean

Question 17

Why was the Cumberland Gap important to the Wilderness Road?

Answer 17

It allowed for a path to be created that made passing through the Appalachian Mountains easier

Question 18

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

Answer 18

It aided the early exploration of Tennessee because it made passing though the mountains easier and opened the door for more settlement

Question 19

Who blazed the trail for the Wilderness Road?

Answer 19

Daniel Boone and 30 skilled foresters

Question 20

Where was the first capital of the Southwest Territory?

Answer 20

Rocky Mount

Question 21

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

Answer 21

William Blount

Question 22

What was important about John Sevier?

Answer 22

He was the first governor of Tennessee

Question 23

What is a turnpike?

Answer 23

Toll road

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Natchez Trace

Question 25

Who created the first steamboat?

Answer 25

Robert Fulton

Question 26

Steamboats improved the transport of what two things?

Answer 26

The transport of goods and passengers

Question 27

What are artificial waterways?

Answer 27

Canals

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Erie Canal

Question 29

Who was the President in 1817?

Answer 29

James Monroe

Question 30

What was the Era of Good Feelings?

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Why did the Era of Good Feelings not last long?

Answer 31

Because the western Expansion of the US led to increased sectionalism,loyalty to a region

Question 32

What is the name for showing loyalty to a region?

Answer 32

Sectionalism

Question 33

Who was a chief supporter of state sovereignty?

Answer 33

John C. Calhoun

Question 34

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

Answer 34

The American system

Question 35

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

Answer 35

The Missouri Compromise

Question 36

What two states were involved in the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 36

Maine and Missouri

Question 37

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

Answer 37

McCalloch v. Maryland

Question 38

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

Answer 38

John Marshall

Question 39

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

Answer 39

The Adams-Onis Treaty

Question 40

What statement was an important part of American foreign policy?

Answer 40

The Monroe Doctrine

Question 41

What is a long hunter?

Answer 41

A resident of an eastern frontier accustomed to spending long periods hunting in the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee