People
Iventions and
Transportation
Missouri Compromise
Vocab
Potpourri
100

General who defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans

Andrew Jackson

100

Machine that removed seeds from cotton

cotton gin

100

As part of the Compromise, this state would be admitted as a slave state

Missouri

100

System where people are free to work wherever they wish and to buy, sell, and produce whatever they want

free enterprise
100

Name 3 states admitted to the Union between 1791 and 1819.

Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mississippi, Alabama.

200

Inventor of the cotton gin

Eli Whitney

200

The Erie Canal connected the Great Lakes to which city?

New York

200

As part of the Compromise, this state was admitted as a free state

Maine

200

When one company controls an entire industry

monoply

200

Treaty that ended the War of 1812

Treaty of Ghent

300

Congressman who proposed the Missouri Compromise

Henry Clay

300

The name of Robert Fulton's steamboat

Clermont

300

What were the map coordinates of the Missouri Compromise line?

36 30

300

Differences in beliefs and goals of different parts of the country

sectionalism

300
The treaty which gave the US Florida

Adams-Onis Treaty

400

Pioneer who helped create the Wilderness Road

Daniel Boone

400

The longest river in the US

Mississippi River

400

After the Missouri Compromise, this was the number of slave and free states in Congress

12 each

400

The official count of the population

census

400

Which President issued a statement saying the US would not get involved in European affairs, and that Europe should remain out of ours.

James Monroe

500

New York government official who developed plan for Erie Canal

DeWitt Clinton

500

Road that connected Cumberland, Maryland and Ohio

National Road

500

The territory directly south of Missouri that was open to slavery

Arkansas

500

Trade between the states

interstate commerce

500

What were the 3 parts to Henry Clay's American Plan?

tariffs, National Bank, internal improvements