U.S. History Early 1600s Chapter 11 Vocabulary

Question 1

Cotton Gin

Answer 1

A machine that removes the seed from the cotton fiber

Question 2

Interchangeable Parts

Answer 2

A part of a machine or device that can be replaced by another identical part

Question 3

Patent

Answer 3

A sole legal right to an invention and its profits

Question 4

Capitalism

Answer 4

An economic system in which people and companies own the means of production

Question 5

Capital

Answer 5

Money or other items such as machines or buildings are used to create wealth

Question 6

Free Enterprise

Answer 6

A type of economy in which people are free to buy, sell, and produce whatever they want

Question 7

Census

Answer 7

The official count of a population

Question 8

Turnpikes

Answer 8

A road on which tolls are collected

Question 9

Canal

Answer 9

An artificial or man-made waterway

Question 10

lock

Answer 10

Separate compartments in which water levels rise and fall in order to raise or lower boats on a canal

Question 11

Erie Canal

Answer 11

A 363-mile canal that connects New York and Buffalo

Question 12

Sectionalism

Answer 12

Rivalry based on the special interests of different areas

Question 13

Monopoly

Answer 13

A market where there is only one provider

Question 14

Interstate Commerce

Answer 14

Economic activity taking place between two or more states

Question 15

Missouri Compromise

Answer 15

This compromise allowed Maine to enter the union as a free state and Missouri to enter the union as a slave state to keep an even balance of power; 12 free states and 12 slave states. It also blocked slavery to the north and allowed it to the south

Question 16

Cede

Answer 16

1. To transfer control of something

2. give up (power or territory)

Question 17

The Monroe Doctrine

Answer 17

Prevented the U.S. from getting involved in European Wars or interfering with existing European colonies and also states that North and South America are not to be considered subjects for future colonization by Europe