Vocabulary

Question 0

Machine developed in 1764 that could spin several threads a at once

Answer 0

Spinning jenny

Question 1

Gradual process by which machines replace hand tools, and steam and other new sources of power replaced human and animal power

Answer 1

Industrial revolution

Question 2

Money raised for a business venture

Answer 2

Capital

Question 3

Person who invests in a business in order to make a profit

Answer 3

Capitalist

Question 4

method of producing goods that brought workers and machinery together in one place

Answer 4

Factory system

Question 5

Identical machine-made parts for a tool or instrument

Answer 5

Interchangeable parts

Question 6

Young woman who worked in the Lowell mills in Massachusetts during the industrial revolution

Answer 6

Lowell girl

Question 7

Process of a populations shifting from farms to cities

Answer 7

Urbanization

Question 8

Boat with a flat bottom used for transporting heavy loads on inland waterways

Answer 8

Flatboat

Question 9

Road built by a private company that charges a toll to use it

Answer 9

Turnpike

Question 10

Road made of logs

Answer 10

Corduroy road

Question 11

Person born in Spain’s American colonies to Spanish parents

Answer 11

Creoles

Question 12

Independent state composed of the present day nations of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and panama; established in 1819 after the territory declared independence from Spain

Answer 12

Republic of great Colombia

Question 13

Settlement of escaped African American slaves in the Spanish colony of Florida

Answer 13

Negro fort

Question 14

First federally funded national road project, begun in 1811

Answer 14

National road

Question 15

Steamboat built in 1807 by Robert Fulton; first steamboat to be commercially successful in American waters

Answer 15

Clermont

Question 16

Artificial waterway opened in 1825 linking Lake Erie to the Hudson River

Answer 16

Erie Canal

Question 17

The eight years of James Monroe’s presidency, from 1817 to 1825, when the democratic republicans dominated the nations politics

Answer 17

Era of good feelings

Question 18

Loyalty to a state or section rather than the whole country

Answer 18

Sectionalism

Question 19

Program for economic growth promoted by Henry clay in the early 1800s; called for high tariffs on imports and federal funds to improve transportation

Answer 19

American system