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Industrial Revolution
Westward Bound
Monroe Years
Inventions
Other
100
Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?
What is England?
100
The two main methods that people used to travel west.
What is by land or by river?
100
George Washington was the first president and James Monroe was this number president.
What is 5th?
100
He invented the Cotton Gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
100
The Industrial Revolution led to an extremely high demand of this crop from the South.
What is Cotton?
200
Where did the Industrial Revolution begin in the United States?
What is New England?
200
This was the first government funded road out west that was commissioned by Congress in 1806.
What is the National Road?
200
This was the term used to describe Monroe's time in office because of the lack of argument and disagreement among politicians in Washington.
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
200
Eli Whitney's invention that used identical machine parts to construct a product.
What is interchangeable Parts?
200
James Monroe was able to acquire Florida from this country?
What is Spain?
300
The United States economic system that allowed free enterprise and helped businesses to flourish.
What is Capitalism?
300
These roads were built by private citizens and they charged settlers a fee to use their roads to go out west.
What are turnpikes?
300
This famous compromise orchestrated by Henry Clay allowed Maine to enter the US as free state and Missouri to enter as a slave state. It also set a border for future states to determine if the state should be slave or free.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
This invention greatly increased river travel to the West. It allowed boats to be able to quickly go upstream or downstream on a river.
What is the Steamboat?
300
This was set up by Congress in 1816 to provide loans to give the new start up businesses in the Industrial Revolution the capital needed to succeed.
What is the Second Bank of the United States?
400
The system that allowed all the stages of production of a product to be done in one place under one roof.
What is the factory system?
400
Artificial waterways that are created by people.
What is a canal?
400
This man was known as the Great Compromiser and was also a spokesman for all the western states including his home state of Kentucky.
Who is Henry Clay?
400
This system passed by Congress in 1790 allowed protection for inventors giving them the sole legal right to the products they invent.
What is the Patent System?
400
This Kentucky city was able to flourish into a major United States city because of all the trade coming through the city.
What is Louisville?
500
This was the source of power for most factories or mills in the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
What is water power?
500
This was built in 1825 and allowed people to travel by boat from New York City to the Great Lakes.
What is the Erie Canal?
500
This declaration informed Europe and the rest of the world that the United States would not allow for any new colonies to be developed in North or South America.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
500
This invention changed the power source for mills and factories. It allowed factories and mills to be built anywhere instead of just on fast moving creeks and rivers as in the past.
What is the steam engine?
500
This term refers to people being loyal to their region of the country.
What is sectionalism?