Chapter 5 Flashcards
How did the Supreme Court rulings shape the future of the American government?
Established the dominance of the nation over a state
Why was the steamboat an improvement?
You can go upstream
Why did cities grow during industrialization?
Higher wages of factory jobs drew people in
What did the cotton gin do?
Removed cotton seeds
What is the southern social class system?
Planter, yeoman farmers, rural poor, african americans
What was the accepted amendment to the Missouri Compromise?
Slavery can go into the Arkansas territory but not the rest of the Louisiana purchase.
How did John Quincy Adams win the presidential election?
In the house of representatives.
What did supporters of Andrew Jackson call themselves?
Democratic-Republicans
What did the Tariff of 1816 do?
Taxed imports
What did Spain cede to the US in the Adams-Onis Treaty?
Florida
What does limited liability mean?
Not responsible for the company’s debt if the company goes bankrupt.
What transportation project was completed from Albany to Buffalo?
The erie canal
What did the Supreme Court rule in Commonwealth vs Hunt?
Union strikes are legal
Who is a planter?
Someone who owns 20 or more slaves
What are the 2 labor systems for slaves?
Task and Gang.
What was the solution that emerged from the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri is a slave state, Maine is a free state.
What is the Corrupt Bargain?
Adams gave Clay a cabinet post
What did John Quincy Adams want to do as president as far as internal improvements were concerned?
Expand federal fines for internal improvements.
What did the Monroe Doctrine state about the Americas?
America is not an area of European colonization anymore.
Era of Good Feelings described which presidency?
James Monroe
What does Seminole mean?
Runaway
What was the name of the locomotive that pulled the nation’s first train passengers?
Tom Thumb
What made up ⅔ of the total of exports of the US in 1860?
Cotton
What was the result of the cotton gin?
Increased slave labor.
Who are drivers?
Supervises other enslaved workers.
Who were admitted as states under the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri and Maine
Who are the favorite sons?
Men who enjoyed supportive leaders from their own state or region.
Francis C. Lowell
Mass production of cotton cloth
Robert Fulton
Took the claremont up the Hudson river
Peter Cooper
Built the American locomotive engine.
Samuel Morse
Perfected the telegraph
Eli Whitney
Interchangeable parts
Denmark Vesey
Accused of planning a slave revolt hanged before it took place.
Frederick Douglass
Rose from slavery to become a leader of the anti slavery unit
James Forten
Privater sail making company
Nat Turner
Led an armed uprising that killed more than 59 white people before being caught and hanged.
Cecee McCarty
Amassed a fortune in New Orleans by retailing dry goods
McCulloh vs Maryland
R- National bank is constitutional S- The necessary and proper clause
Gibbons vs Ogden
R- State monopoly unconstitutional S- Federal government interstate commerce
Martin vs Hunter’s Lessee
R- Virginia law conflicted with T of P says give loyalists back land S- Establish South Carolina as a final court of appeal
Interchangeable parts
Allowed machines to turn out large quantities of single pieces, workers assembled into finished products
Labor union
Organization usually focused on a single trade.
Protective tariff
Taxed imports to drive prices up
National Road
Went from Cumberland, MA to Wheeling, VA
