Misc. 1
Factory workers @ the Lowell Mill Co.
Who are the Lowell Mill Girls?
This individual invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
Official count of the population, done every 10 years.
What is a census?
An artificial waterway.
What is a canal?
This individual designed the Clermont.
Who is Robert Fulton?
This act, proposed by Henry Clay, kept the balance of power between slave & free states even in the Senate.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This machine that removes the seeds from cotton crops.
What is a cotton gin?
Part of a machine that can be replaced by another identical part.
What are interchangeable parts?
This term refers to the sole legal right to an invention and its profits.
What is a patent?
An economy where people are free to buy, sell, and trade whatever they want.
What is free enterprise?
This term refers to a market where there is only one provider and no competition exists.
What is a monopoly?
This economic system in which people and companies own the means of production.
What is capitalism?
This term refers to money or other items, such as machines or buildings, used to create wealth.
What is capital?
This term refers to the separate compartment in which water levels rise & fall in order to raise or lower boats on a canal.
What are locks?
This economic activity taking place between two or more states.
What is interstate commerce?
What type of power (natural resource) was available in New England that was needed to run factory machinery?
What is waterpower?
What Presidential administration was the Missouri Compromise passed?
Who is James Monroe?
The time period where people left farms to go to cities to make wages is known as what?
What is the industrial revolution?
The National Road connected Ohio with what part of the United States?
What is the West?
This doctrine claimed that United States had sole control of affairs happening in the Americas & no European powers were to interfere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
What planet in the solar system is referred to as the "red planet"?
What is Mars?
What is Venus?
What were the two major political parties that we discussed in this class thus far in the early 1800s?
What are the Democratic-Republicans & Federalists.
What Latin term refers to this number: 8
What is Octa?
What planet in the solar system is no longer considered to be a planet, but instead a dwarf planet?
What is Pluto?