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What is the definition of the term, capital, in the context of the economy?
a. The most important town or city in a state.
b. (of an offense or charge) liable to the death penalty.
c. Money
c. Money
What was the name of the new revolution that had begun?
a. The Industrial Revolution
b. The American Revolution
c. The Spanish Revolution
a. The Industrial Revolution
What was the name of the Museum P.T. Barnum began?
a. The Charleston Museum
b. American Museum
c. The National Museum of Arts and Science
b. American Museum
What canal was started in 1817?
a. Panama Canal
b. Erie Canal
c. Cape Cod Canal
b. Erie Canal
What disease spreads quickly throughout cities?
a. Malaria
b. The Flu
c. Yellow Fever
c. Yellow Fever
What machine did James Hargreaves invent?
a. Spinning Jenny
b. Drawing Board
c. Steam Engine
a. Spinning Jenny
What is the definition of the Industrial Revolution?
a. The revolution in the way goods were produced
b. The revolution for America's freedom from Britain
c. The revolution for equal rights for all
a. The revolution in the way goods were produced
Who invented the cotton gin?
a. Samuel Slater
b. Eli Whitney
c. P.T. Barnum
b. Eli Whitney
How were workers in factories paid?
a. The workers were paid daily or weekly wages.
b. The workers were paid a very good paycheck.
c. The workers were paid at the end of every work month
a. The workers were paid daily or weekly wages.
What did Samuel Slater build in 1790?
a. The first American factory
b. The first American mill
c. The first American museum
b. The first American mill
Who liberated South America?
a. Toussaint Louverture
b. Simon Bolivar
c. Napoleon
b. Simon Bolivar
What did John Quincy Adams convince Spain to do?
a. Convinced Spain to sell more of their trade products for less for the United States
b. Convinced Spain to give up 1/3 of their land for the United States
c. Convinced Spain to sell Florida to the United States
c. Convinced Spain to sell Florida to the United States
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
What is one change that occurred during the Industrial Revolution?
The economy shifted from farming to manufacturing.
How many hours and days a week did a mill worker work?
a. 8-hours a day, five days a week
b. 12-hours a day, six days a week
c. 5-hours a day, seven days a week
b. 12-hours a day, six days a week
To meet the need for moving goods during the Industrial Revolution, what was built?
a. Americans built dirt roads.
b. Americans built canals.
c. Americans built wagons that utilized the steam engine
b. Americans built canals.
What was the name of the best traveled road in America?
a. Lancaster Turnpike
b. Pacific Coast Highway
c. Blue Ridge Parkway
a. Lancaster Turnpike
What was a corduroy road?
a. Roads made out of dirt.
b. Roads made out of gravel.
c. Roads that are made out of logs.
c. Roads that are made out of logs.
Who was a person of European descent born especially in the West Indies or Spanish America?
a. Native Americans
b. Cajuns
c. Creole
c. Creole
What word describes loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole?
a. Sectionalism
b. Nationalism
a. Sectionalism
Who became the new President in 1816?
a. James Monroe
b. Eli Whitney
c. John C. Calhoun
a. James Monroe
What was the “Era of Good Feelings?”
A period in the political history of the United States that reflected a sense of national purpose and a desire for unity among Americans in the aftermath of the War of 1812
What was the court case, McCullough v. Maryland, focused on?
a. establishing the power of judicial review for the U.S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts with respect to the Constitution and eventually for parallel state courts with respect to state constitutions.
b. The states had no right to interfere with Federal institutions within their borders
c. whether Congress had the constitutional power to prohibit slavery in free territories.
b. The states had no right to interfere with Federal institutions within their borders
What did the Monroe Doctrine say?
a. The British could not go through the Panama Canal.
b. The United States could not trade with Latin America.
c. The United States would not interfere in the affairs of European nations or European colonies in the Americas
c. The United States would not interfere in the affairs of European nations or European colonies in the Americas
Who led the Mexican Revolution?
a. Pancho Villa
b. Diego Rivera
c. Miguel Hidalgo
c. Miguel Hidalgo
Who spoke about living in the North?
a. Daniel Webster
b. John C. Calhoun
c. James Monroe
a. Daniel Webster