Invention and Progress
What was the most significant development of the Transportation Revolution?
Steam locomotives
What is the term for a state breaking away from the Union?
Secession
The Shoshone girl that accompanied Lewis and Clark, what was her name?
Sacagawea
What is a person who risks personal loss to create and market new ideas or products?
entrepreneur
Who was Alexander Hamilton killed by in a duel?
Aaron Burr
Which tribe was forcibly removed to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears?
Cherokee
During the War of 1812, what city did the British Army burn?
Washington DC
Who developed the steel plow?
John Deere
How did Francis Cabot Lowell bring higher standards to U.S. factories?
Lowell provided his employees with housing, education, food, and recreation.
What country sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States?
France
Who was the first president to die in office?
William Henry Harrison.
Why did Americans desire to move farther west in the early 1800s?
Land was becoming scarce, and Americans sought greater opportunities for their families.
Who was the leading Warhawk before the War of 1812?
Henry Clay
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
Who led the slave rebellion in Virginia?
Nat Turner.
What development made New Orleans a major commercial port?
Steamboats
What political party was created out of dislike for President Jackson?
The Whig Party
What is the trail that Western settlers used to travel through the Cumberland Gap?
Wilderness Road
When was the end of War of 1812?
1814
Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel F. B. Morse
What is the practical use of science?
applied science or technology
What vice president wrote a pamphlet on his views of the tariff of 1828?
John C. Calhoun
What is a closed meeting of political party leaders?
Caucus
Who was the southern half of Louisiana explored by?
Zebulon Pike
Who was the author of the Star-Spangled Banner?
Francis Scott Key
Who developed the reaping machine?
Cyrus McCormick
Who chose the location of the transatlantic cable?
Matthew Maury
What president vetoed the Bank Charter Bill in 1832?
Andrew Jackson
Who won the favorite son's election?
John Quincy Adams.
What was the first frontier state to be added to the Union?
Kentucky
Who won the Battle of Lake Erie?
Oliver Hazard Perry
Who improved the power loom?
Francis Cabot Lowell.
Who was the first female physician in the United States?
Elizabeth Blackwell.
How did the Tariff of 1828 caused division between the North and the South?
The Tariff increased the profit of Northern manufacturers at the expense of the South.
What policy prohibited European powers from new colonization of the Western Hemisphere?
The Monroe Doctrine.
What was the first state of the Northwest Territory to be admitted to the United States?
Ohio
How did the War of 1812 affect U.S. foreign relations?
Nations respected the United States, and England and the United States would work together to resolve conflicts.
Who developed the steamboat?
Robert Fulton
Who opened the Erie Canal?
Dewey Clinton
Who proposed the Compromise Tariff of 1833?
Henry Clay
What senator from Massachusetts was the greatest orator in Congress?
Daniel Webster.
When was the Louisiana Purchase?
1803
What was the last great battle of the War of 1812?
New Orleans.
Who used nitrous oxide to ease the pain of dental work?
Horace Wells
When was the transatlantic cable laid?
1858
What statement required all the land to be bought with with gold and silver?
Specie Circular
When was the Webster-Ashburton Treaty?
1842
When did Spain cede Florida to the United States?
1819
What treaty ended the War of 1812?
Treaty of Ghent
Who improved the sewing machine?
Isaac Singer