What is one Idea/Action that promotes nationalism?
Multiple Answers.
The Monroe Doctrine
Adams-Onis Treaty
Westward Expansion
Gibbons V. Ogden case
Missouri Compromise
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What was the Cotton Gin?
An invention that made wool production much more efficient and combed and refined the raw balled cotton from the fields
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What is manifest destiny?
The American belief that Americans were the chosen people to rule the entirety of the US
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Why were railroads such a land transport improvement?
They were MUCH faster and carried larger loads.
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What was the Indian Removal Act, and why is or isn't it constitutional?
It basically said that Indians must vacate from state boundaries and isn't constitutional because it was made by the states and pertains to an independent nation. Only congress can make treaties or land trades with other nations.
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What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The Monroe Doctrine declared America a legitimate world power and warned other nations not to encroach.
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Why was there a huge increase in the number of slaves in the south after the invention of the cotton gin?
There was a large influx of slaves because cotton was so much easier to produce that the plantation owners needed more people to pick the cotton.
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How does the Monroe Doctrine promote Manifest destiny?
It tells all other nations to back off of the US which implies that all of the US will be occupied solely by Americans.
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What is westward expansion?
Americans moving west and settling there.
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What is the Trail of Tears?
The forced march of the Indians forced out of their homes by the Indian Removal Treaty
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What is nationalism?
Nationalism is supporting the whole nation and not just one part or group.
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What invention started the Industrial Revolution (In part) ?
The Cotton Gin
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Does the Industrial Revolution relate to manifest destiny
Nope.
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Why didn't the railroads promote nationalism between the North and the South
The railroads almost never went N-S and almost always went E-W
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Which tribe specifically does this concern?
The Cherokee
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What is Sectionalism
Sectionalism is supporting one specific part or group of the nation and not the whole.
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Who was likely to be a factory worker
A farmer's son with no inheritance, and therefore no livelihood, besides getting another profession or becoming a worker.
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How does the Indian Removal Act promote manifest destiny?
The Indian Removal Act sets the stage for westward expansion by removing the Indians from the path of the Americans, and in turn showing that Americans are Meant to dominate the whole of the US.
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How does improved transport promote westward expansion?
The improved transport makes it much easier to migrate from east to west
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How were Americans represented in the Cherokee's Appeal?
As a good, civilized, intelligent, religious group of people.
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Why was the cotton gin so significant?
It not only increased the production of cotton by more than tenfold but it also created a huge influx of slaves. The cotton gin also (kind of) started an Industry, the textile industry.
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Why is manifest destiny related to westward expansion?
Manifest Destiny is the Belief that Americans solely are meant to take over the US, and Westward Expansion is basically the American rule spreading west.
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What did the first trains run on?
Coal.
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What specifically was the actual APPEAL in the Cherokee Appeal
It appeals to the decency and sense of right of the American people