Early Democracy
This election was known as the “Revolution of 1800” because it marked a peaceful transfer of power between political parties.
What is the Election of 1800?
By the 1820s, voting rights expanded to nearly all of these men.
Who are white men?
This entrepreneur revolutionized the textile industry using a centralized factory system.
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell?
This 1825 canal linked the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Erie Canal?
Name one the two immigrant groups that arrived in large numbers to Northern industrial cities.
Who are the Irish and the Germans?
This 1793 invention rapidly increased cotton production in the South.
What is the cotton gin?
These two men tied in the Electoral College during the Election of 1800.
Who are Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr?
This new political party rose to national prominence under Andrew Jackson.
What is the Democratic Party?
This invention by Eli Whitney made mass production possible through uniform parts.
What are interchangeable parts?
These three major types of transportation projects helped connect regional markets.
What are roads, canals, and railroads?
Name one of the two river-city hubs that exemplified westward growth and industrial trade in the early 1800s.
What is Pittsburgh or Cincinnati
The South supplied this raw material that fueled Northern industrialization.
What is cotton?
Jefferson’s political philosophy emphasized this type of constitutional adherence.
What is strict adherence?
This election symbolized increased public participation, especially from the “common man.”
What is the Election of 1828?
This communication invention allowed messages to travel instantly over long distances.
What is the telegraph?
Name one of the two regions that became economically interdependent because of transportation improvements.
What are the North and the Midwest?
This early industrial town was known for young women working long hours in textile mills.
What is Lowell, Massachusetts?
The economic link between Northern industry and Southern cotton production created this famous nickname for cotton.
What is “King Cotton”?
Name one of the two major items that Jefferson reduced to support his vision of limited government.
What are the federal government bureaucracy and the military?
This major U.S. land purchase in 1803 doubled the size of the country.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Name at least two agricultural inventions significantly boosted farm productivity.
What are the mechanical reaper and the steel plow and cotton gin?
This energy technology powered factories and transportation, increasing production speed
What are steam engines?
This phrase described the emerging expectation that women should focus on home and family.
What is the cult of domesticity?
Northern merchants facilitated this type of commerce by exporting Southern cotton to Europe.
What is international trade?
This document, issued in 1823, warned Europe against interfering in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This 1819 treaty secured Florida for the United States from Spain.
What is the Adams-Onís Treaty?
Entrepreneurs shifted the U.S. economy from local trade to this type of large-scale system.
What is a market-driven economy?
The courts and legislation encouraged infrastructure development by protecting these two components of business investment. (name one)
What are contracts and property rights?
This educator promoted the idea that women were responsible for national morality and family structure.
Who is Catherine Beecher?
Regional interdependence grew among many areas, but this region became increasingly isolated economically.
What is the South?