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Vocabulary
Industrial Rev
Moving Westward
Building National Unity
Latin American and the US
100
Movement of the population from farms to cities.
What is urbanization?
100
A long, slow process which completely changed the way goods were produced.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
100
When Kentucky entered the Union.
What is 1792?
100
He spoke for the West; leader of the War Hawks; born in Virginia; favored a more active role for the central government.
Who is Henry Clay?
100
People born in Latin America to Spanish parents.
Who are creoles?
200
Machine made parts that were all alike.
What are interchangeable parts?
200
Girls that the Boston Associates hired from nearby farms; usually worked a few years in the mills before returning home to marry.
What are Lowell girls?
200
The best road in the United States.
What is Lancaster Turnpike?
200
He spoke for the South; he went to Yale College; supported the War of 1812; he opposed policies that would strengthen the power of the federal government.
Who is John C. Calhoun? Anyone know his nickname?
200
Became known as the Liberator for his role in the Latin American wars of independence; became leader of the rebel forces; led army from Venezuela into Colombia and defeated Spanish forces there.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
300
An artifical channel filled with water that allows boats to cross a stretch of land.
What is a canal?
300
This brought workers and machinery together in one place to produce goods.
What is the factory system?
300
Roads were made of logs in swampy areas and they were called this.
What are corduroy roads?
300
From New Hampshire; very good public speaker; opposed the war of 1812; he wanted the federal government to take a larger role in building the nation's economy.
Who is Daniel Webster?
300
He attacked Spanish territory.
Who is General Andrew Jackson?
400
Trade between different states.
What is interstate commerce?
400
This was the year when more Americans lived in cities than on farms.
What is 1920?
400
He launched his steamboat, the Clermont, on the Hudson River in 1807.
Who is Robert Fulton?
400
This raised tariffs on imports; Congress passed it in 1816.
What is the Tariff of 1816?
400
The name of the treaty where Spain agreed to give the US Florida in exchange for $5 million.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
500
Loyalty to one's state or section rather than to the nation as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
500
Three problems that growing cities had.
What is no sewers; people threw grabage in the street; disease spread easily; fire; streets turned into mudholes when it rained.
500
New York governor who had the Eric Canal built.
Who is DeWitt Clinton?
500
Describe the American System.
What is high tariffs, which would help northern factories; then northerners would buy farm products from the West and South; this would also help reduce America's dependence on foreign goods; would use the money to build roads, bridges, canals.
500
Describe the Monroe Doctrine.
What is the US said they would not interfere in the affairs of European nations or colonies; and it warned European nations to not interfere with Latin American countries; US would oppose any attempt to build new colonies in the Americas; tried to keep European powers out of the Western Hemisphere.