During the __________________________, machines replaced hand tools, and large-scale manufacturing replaced farming as the main source of work.
Industrial Revolution
100
Which invention did Samuel F. B. Morse create, and what was its effect?
telegraph-allowed people to communicate over long distances
100
For what is Nat Turner best known?
leading an armed revolt of some 70 slaves
100
The nation entered a period of political unity, called the Era of Good Feelings, after the election of _______________ as president.
James Monroe
100
In the _______________ of 1820, Congress settled an argument over the issue of slavery in new states to be admitted to the Union.
Missouri Compromise
200
Under the ______________________, workers and machines came together under one roof, usually near a source of water to power the machines.
factory system
200
Who invented the cotton gin in 1793?
Eli Whitney
200
The United States's victory in the War of 1812 brought a spirit of _______________ that inspired Americans to work together to build a better, stronger nation.
nationalism
200
What did the Supreme Court rule in the case of Gibbons v. Ogden?
Only the federal government had the right to control interstate commerce.
200
In the _______________ of 1820, Congress settled an argument over the issue of slavery in new states to be admitted to the Union.
Missouri Compromise
300
Where (region) were most of the nation's early factories built?
New England
300
How did the cotton gin change the South?
It encouraged Southerners to grow more cotton.
300
Hoping to build a stronger economy for the nation, Kentucky congressman _______________ proposed a plan of action that he called the American System.
Henry Clay
300
What did the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819 accomplish?
gave Florida to the United States
300
Why was the Missouri Compromise so important to the nation?
It maintained the balance of power between free states and slave states.
400
What idea of Eli Whitney transformed manufacturing by making each copy of a manufactured item exactly alike?
interchangeable parts
400
What percent of African Americans in the South were free in the 1840s?
8%
400
What was the "American System"?
It was a plan to make the United States economically self-sufficient.
400
In 1818 and 1819, the United States settled border disputes with which countries?
Britain and Spain
400
In an 1823 statement known as the ________________, the United States announced that the Americas would be closed to any more colonization by European nations.
Monroe Doctrine
500
The steamboat, invented by ______________________, improved transportation by carrying people and goods faster, even against a river current or a strong wind.
Robert Fulton
500
What were the songs in which enslaved people of the South expressed their religious beliefs or passed coded messages called?
spirituals
500
What modes of transportation improved the nation's economy?
As each region of the country developed differently, a spirit called ________________ grew, in which people put the interests of their own region ahead of the interests of the nation as a whole.
sectionalism
500
About which region did Monroe specifically direct part of his Monroe Doctrine?