This document protects an inventor's rights to their invention.
What is a patent?
100
America's Industrial Revolution first took root in this region.
What is New England?
100
These man-made waterways allowed merchants to quickly ship goods East to West.
What are canals?
100
The growth of factories led to the growth of these since factory workers needed to live close to the factories they worked in.
What are cities?
100
He invented the steamboat the Clermont.
Who is Robert Fulton?
200
These types of parts, which could be used to easily replace broken parts, caused the price of products to go down.
What are interchangeable parts?
200
Eli Whitney invented this machine that was meant to making picking cotton harvests easier.
What is the cotton gin?
200
This transportation development used the power of steam to speed up the time it took ships to sail against the river current.
What is the steamboat?
200
New developments in transportation encouraged more people to move West. These pioneers tended to settle near these.
What are rivers?
200
This industrialist memorized the design of British machines and then duplicated them in his Rhode Island cotton mill.
Who is Samuel Slater?
300
Canals use these special compartments to raise or lower water as ships travel.
What are locks?
300
Competition, economic freedom, private property, and profit are the four main elements of this economic system.
What is free enterprise?
300
This was the first road built by Congress, as it was a military necessity.
What is the National Road?
300
Henry Clay proposed this plan of internal improvements for the country, but most of his plan wasn't put into effect.
What is the American System?
300
He is the inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts.
Who is Eli Whitney?
400
This means pride in one's region.
What is sectionalism?
400
This revolution changed where and how people worked by bringing workers together into factories with machines.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
400
The success of this canal, which connected New York City to the Great Lakes, led to an explosion in canal building.
What is the Erie Canal?
400
Fearful that Spain might try to regain their lost colonies in South America, President Monroe issued this policy. It warned European countries not to create any new colonies in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
400
He created the factory system by bringing together all manufacturing steps in one place.
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell?
500
This term refers to a state's right to govern itself.
What is state sovereignty?
500
The textile mills in New England had this effect on the demand for cotton. (increased demand or decreased demand?)
What is increased demand?
500
These were toll roads that helped made it easier to travel and trade.
What are turnpikes?
500
As a result of this treaty the US gained Eastern Florida.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
500
He led the business and government officials that developed the plan to build the Erie Canal.