What was the occupation of most Americans in the early 1800s?
farming
100
Who owned the turnpikes in the early 1800s?
private companies
100
Which Supreme Court case increased the power of the federal government by saying that the federal government has the power to regulate (control) trade between states?
Gibbons vs. Ogden
100
Did Americans support Latin American Revolutions?
Yes
100
A speech to Congress declaring that European intervention in Latin American would no longer be tolerated.
What is the Monroe Doctrine.
200
In which country did the Industrial Revolution begin?
England
200
which road was one of the best in the nation in the 1790s and connected towns to Philadelphia?
Lancaster Turnpike
200
Which Supreme Court case increase the power of the federal government by saying that states have no right to interfere with federal institutions?
McCuulloch v. Maryland
200
What present day state were the Seminoles from?
Florida
200
Spokesperson for the South in Congress.
Who is John C. Calhoun
300
Which invention allowed textile workers to spin more threads at once than a traditional spinning wheel?
spinning jenny
300
What internal improvement helped to reduce the cost of goods shipped from the West?
Erie Canal
300
What was the name of the time period in which America was unusually united?
Era of Good Feelings
300
What was the term used to describe African slaves who escaped to Florida and lived among Native Americans?
Black Seminoles
300
Loyalty to one's state or region rather than to the nation.
What is sectionalism.
400
Who smuggled industrial technology blueprints out of England and to American in the early 1800s?
Samuel Slater
400
What kind of person would have been most supportive of the (protective) Tariff of 1816?
a factory owner
400
Did the War of 1812 help or hurt the American economy?
Helped because Americans could not import goods from Europe, they learn to manufacture goods domestically.
400
What was the name of the treaty in which Spain sold Florida to the U.S. $5 million?
Adams-Onis Treaty
400
Road made of logs
What is a corduroy road
500
Why did the Lowell Mills hire women and children to work in their factories?
They could pay them half of what they pay men
AND
They could fit into small spaces
500
Who came up with the idea of using a steam engine to power a boat?
John Fitch
500
What type of tax did Henry Clay's American System call for?
a high protective tariff
500
Name three reasons why the new Latin American countries had trouble with their independence?
1. geography separated them
2. limited experience in self-government
3. powerful leaders took control