Industrial Revolution
What are textiles?
Answer: Cloth products
Why did more people vote during the 1820s and 1830s?
Answer: Property requirements were lowered
What law forced Native Americans off their land?
Answer: The Indian Removal Act
What compromise allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state and Maine as a free state?
Answer: The Missouri Compromise
What are turnpikes?
Answer: Roads that charged tolls
What invention by Eli Whitney boosted the southern economy and increased slavery?
Answer: The cotton gin
What crisis involved South Carolina threatening to break away from the U.S. over tariffs?
Answer: The Nullification Crisis
DAILY DOUBLE
What was the forced journey of Native Americans to reservations called?
Answer: The Trail of Tears
What did the Supreme Court decide in Worcester v. Georgia?
Answer: The Cherokee had the right to stay on their land
What improvement was made to roads in the early 1800s?
Answer: They were cleared of trees and covered with gravel
Who brought the factory system to the United States?
Answer: Samuel Slater
What happened to the U.S. economy after Jackson destroyed the National Bank?
Answer: The Panic of 1837 (a Great Depression)
How did the Cherokee resist removal from their land?
Answer: By protesting and filing petitions
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What Supreme Court case said states couldn’t tax the federal bank?
Answer: McCulloch v. Maryland
What are canals?
Answer: Man-made rivers for transporting goods
Why did people, especially women, take factory jobs during the Industrial Revolution?
Answer: They needed money to help support their families
How did Jackson react to the Supreme Court ruling in Worcester v. Georgia?
Answer: He ignored it and removed the Cherokee anyway
What tribe resisted the U.S. government by continuing to fight in Florida?
Answer: The Seminole
What Supreme Court case gave the federal government power over interstate trade?
Answer: Gibbons v. Ogden
What canal helped make New York the “Empire State”?
Answer: The Erie Canal
What organization did Sarah Bagley help found to improve working conditions?
Answer: Lowell Female Labor Reform Association
How did Jackson's actions during the Nullification Crisis show his desire to keep the country unified?
Answer: He opposed South Carolina’s attempt to nullify federal law to preserve national unity
Why did Jackson and his supporters want to remove Native Americans from the Southeast?
Answer: To give land to settlers and search for gold
What was the “Corrupt Bargain” in the 1824 election?
Answer: Henry Clay helped John Quincy Adams win the presidency in exchange for a political position
What was Henry Clay’s plan to make the U.S. economy self-sufficient called?
Answer: The American System