Chapter11

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

What is capitalism?

Answer 3

Individuals put there capital into a business in hope of making a profit

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 simply 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

Demand for cotton grew

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Growth of factories in the north

Question 13

What is the difference between urban and rural?

Answer 13

Urban = city 
Rural = county

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Roads, steamboats, and 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

Willam bean

Question 17

Why was the Cumberland Gap important to the Wilderness Road?

Answer 17

Made it easier to pass through the application mountains

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Aides early exploration to TN and opened a door for more settlement

Question 19

Who blazed the trail for the Wilderness Road?

Answer 19

Daniel Boone

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

Willam Blount

Question 22

What was important about John Sevier?

Answer 22

First governor of TN

Question 23

What is a long hunter?

Answer 23

An American wilderness explorer for at least 6 months a time

Question 24

What is a turnpike?

Answer 24

Toll roads

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

Natchez trace

Question 26

Who created the first steamboat?

Answer 26

Robert Fulton

Question 27

Steamboats improved the transport of what two things?

Answer 27

Goods, and passengers

Question 28

What are artificial waterways?

Answer 28

Canals

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Erie Canal

Question 30

Who was the President in 1817?

Answer 30

James Monroe

Question 31

What was the Era of Good Feelings?

Answer 31

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

Question 32

Why did the Era of Good Feelings not last long?

Answer 32

Western expansion of the US

Question 33

What is the name for showing loyalty to a region?

Answer 33

Sovereignty

Question 34

Who was a chief supporter of state sovereignty?

Answer 34

John c Calhoun

Question 35

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

Answer 35

The American system

Question 36

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

Answer 36

The Missouri compromise

Question 36

What two states were involved in the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 36

Missouri and Maine

Question 37

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

Answer 37

Chief Justice Marshall

Question 38

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

Answer 38

Adams-Onis treaty

Question 39

What statement was an important part of American foreign policy?

Answer 39

Monroe doctrine

Question 40

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

Answer 40

McCullouch v. Maryland