Market revolution terms

Question 1

American System

Answer 1

Henry Clay’s proposal for a national bank, protective tariffs, and a national transportation system

Question 2

canal

Answer 2

a human-made waterway cut through an area of land to link two bodies of water

Question 3

doctrine of nullification

Answer 3

an argument stating that since the states had formed the Union, the states had the final authority over laws and could ignore any law they deemed unconstitutional

Question 4

Know-Nothing Party

Answer 4

a political party founded by those with nativist beliefs

Question 5

market revolution

Answer 5

a vast expansion of markets in which manufacturers

and producers could sell goods and products

Question 6

nativism

Answer 6

the belief that immigrants do not deserve the same rights and privileges as native-born Americans

Question 7

panic

Answer 7

a financial crisis in which banks fail and close and those who have accounts there lose their savings

Question 8

slave narrative

Answer 8

the autobiography of a former slave, emphasizing the horrifying conditions from which he or she had escaped

Question 9

tariff

Answer 9

a tax imposed on foreign goods sold in the domestic market; intended to support the purchase of domestically made goods

Question 10

Spinning jenny

Answer 10

Mechanical loom invented by James Hargreaves of Great Britain; brought to the United States by Samuel Slater in 1789

Question 11

Interchangeable parts

Answer 11

Mass-produced, identical parts for machines, tools, and weapons, allowing for mass production by the assembly of standardized parts

Question 12

Cotton gin

Answer 12

Machine that separates cotton seeds from cotton fibers in a fraction of the time it takes a person to do the task by hand

Question 13

Steam boat

Answer 13

Boat whose steam power allows it to travel upstream against the current, something that formerly had been very difficult; enabled Southern planters to send cotton north in bulk, giving rise the to Northern textile industry