General Overview
This president oversaw the Louisiana Purchase
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This was an early factory town located in Massachusetts along the Merrimack River
Lowell, Massachusetts
This invention by Eli Whitney boosted the Southern economy during this era.
What is the cotton gin?
The President during the Era of Good Feelings who made a Goodwill Tour to different part of the U.S. including Massachusetts.
James Monroe
The name of the vast amount of territory purchased from France.
Lousiana Territory
This convention in 1815 brought about the end of Federalist Party
The Hartford Convention
What was one of the early power sources at Northern Factories or Mills?
Water powered by rivers.
(Hydro power)
What was the main cash crop grown in plantations during this time?
Cotton
This Speaker of the House was a powerful politician from Kentucky during this era after the War of 1812. He is also known as the Great Compromiser and promoting the American System.
Henry Clay
This political party were thought of as unloyal and traitors because they opposed the War of 1812.
The Federalist Party
This war ending in 1815, marked the beginning of the Era of Good Feelings.
What is the end of the War of 1812?
This is a man-made waterway built to move water, boats, or goods from one place to another.
A canal
Large southern farms that grew cash crops were called this...
Plantations
The name of the plan to make the United States stronger by building roads and canals, and protecting American industries from foreign competition with tariffs.
The American System
This part of the country grew quickly with new factories during this time.
The North
This European country ceded Florida to the U.S. in this 1819 Adams-Onis Treaty.
Spain
True or False: Young women were the earliest factory workers in places like Lowell, MA?
True
sAs the growth of cotton production grew in the South, there was also a demand for this...
Enslaved laborers
During this time, the U.S. expanded westward into this territory purchased by France in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
This financial crisis marked the end of the economic prosperity of the Era of Good Feelings.
What is the Panic of 1819?
These two founding fathers and ex presidents died on the same day on July 4th, 1826 (50 years after the Declaration of independence).
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
This is the name of identical pieces made in a factory that can be easily swapped in or out when building or fixing a product
Interchangeable Parts
What is something the cotton gin was able to do?
Clean the cotton and remove the seeds.
This political party became dominant after the War of 1812 and the lack of political division during this time ushered in the Era of Good Feelings.
This canal, completed in 1825, connected the Great Lakes to the Hudson River and greatly boosted trade in New York.
What is the Erie Canal?