Southern Economy
What crop did farmers grow in the northern southern states?
Tobacco
What important right did slaves not have?
Ability to own property
What is mudslinging?
Criticizing another personality and morals
What party was the Favorite sons from?
Republican
What was longest canal in the nation at that time was almost 2 miles long
The Erie Canal
What machine quickly combed seeds out of cotton?
Cotton Gin
Who was a prominent anti slavery leader
Frederick Douglass
Would the north or south benefit from the Missouri Compromise?
South
Who won the election in 1824?
John Quincy Adams
Who stunned the nation when his steamship, the Clermont, went 150 miles up the Hudson river?
Robert Fulton
What crop dominated coastal regions of South Carolina and Georgia?
Rice
How did the native Americans deal with enslavement?
Music and religion
In the end, did the Missouri Compromise give Missouri the right to have slaves?
Yes
What message did Adams announce?
Ambitious program of nationalist legislation
Besides the steamboat, what other mode of transportation was used in the early 1800’s?
The railroad
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
Even though congress had outlawed foreign slave trade in 1808 the slave population grew from 1.5 million to 4 million. Why?
High demand for slaves and a high birth rate among enslaved women
How many slave states were there in 1819?
11
Who won the election in 1828
Andrew Jackson
What locomotive pulled the nation's first load of train passengers?
The Tom Thumb
How many bales of cotton did the south produce in 1801?
100,000 Bales
About how many freed slave were in the south by 1850
225,000
When did tensions reach the highest in Missouri?
1819
What nickname did Jackson earn?
Old hickory
Coal extraction shot up from 50,000 tons in 1820 to how many in 1860?
14 million