Key Terms
The official count of a population.
What is a census?
He is the inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This economic system, related to capitalism, has four major elements - competition, economic freedom, private property, and profit.
What is free enterprise?
Travelers had to pay these to use turnpikes owned by private companies.
What is a toll?
This is the change in the way goods were produced.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Loyalty to one's region.
What is sectionalism?
He memorized the design of British machinery and duplicated them in the Rhode Island factory he managed.
Who is Samuel Slater?
Henry Clay suggested this plan, which included a protective tariff, internal improvements, and the creation of a Second National Bank.
What is the American System?
This invention, by Robert Fulton, made river travel against the current easier, and also led to the prosperity of many river towns.
What are steamboats?
This was at the heart of the Industrial Revolution.
What is technology?
An artificial waterway.
What is canal?
He began the factory system when his Massachusetts factory combined all stages of cloth manufacturing.
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell?
In three decisions (court cases) in the early 1800s, this federal judiciary backed the powers of the national government over the states.
What is the Supreme Court?
This is an artificial waterway built by people.
What is a canal?
The Industrial Revolution, more textile factories, and the cotton gin, increased the Southern demand for this crop.
What is cotton?
Identical parts of a machine which can be easily swapped.
What is interchangeable parts?
He became the 5th U.S. President
Who is James Monroe?
This agreement resolved one sectional issue by allowing Missouri to enter the U.S. as a slave state and Maine as a free state. This agreement also solved the question of slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase territory.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The Supreme Court said that only Congress had the power to makes laws governing trade between states.
What is interstate commerce?
This is the region the Industrial Revolution first appeared in the United States.
What is New England?
A document which gives the inventor the sole legal right to profits for a period of time.
What is a patent?
He was a western representative who tried to resolve sectional disputes through compromise.
Who is Henry Clay?
This doctrine was meant to prevent any future colonization of the Americas by European nations.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Running from Maryland to Illinois, this road allowed pioneer families to travel to the west more easily.
What is the National Road?
The employment of these small workers in factories was one of the negative aspects of the Industrial Revolution.
What are children?