Industrial Revolution
What country did the Industrial Revolution first start in?
England/Great Britain
Why did people move west?
For possibilities, freedom, and to achieve their own hopes and dreams.
What two types of improvements did people make at this time to make it easier to travel between areas (not Industrial Revolution inventions)?
Built roads and canals.
Directly after the War of 1812 we entered an area where the country felt more united than ever before. What was this era called?
The era of good feelings.
Can you name the two countries that the US will sign treaties with at this time?
Spain and Great Britain
What area of the US did the Industrial Revolution first come to?
New England
Where did most people settle in the west?
Along rivers and waterways
What road first connected Virginia to Kentucky (Daniel Boone helped make this road)?
Wilderness Road.
What does Sectionalism mean?
Differences in the goals and interests of different parts of the country.
What territory did the US want from Spain?
Florida
What type of power did early factories run on?
Water power
What was the first area that settlers began to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains?
Kentucky
What road did the national government sponsor (they deemed it important for national security)?
The National Road.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The compromise proposed by Henry Clay that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state? It set the border between free and slave states and the 30th parallel.
The US was worried that Europeans would come back to conquer newly independent nations throughout the Americas. What did president Monroe do in response?
Issued the Monroe Doctrine.
What is Free Enterprise?
a type of economy in which people are free to buy, sell, and produce whatever they want.
Who led the expiditions into Kentucky?
Daniel Boone
What was the first large scale canal project in the US?
The Erie Canal.
The US government introduced many new tariffs. What section of the country did not like these new tariffs?
The South
What territory did the US negotiate for US citizen to settle in with Great Britain?
The Oregon Country.
Who created the factory system?
Francis Cabbot Lowell
Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio
How many miles worth of canals were built in the US by 1850?
3600 miles worth.
What was the other name for the Tariff of 1816
Tariff of Abominations
What line did the US negotiate the border between the US and Canada would be?
49th parallel.