People
Who created the American System?
James Madison
What is sectionalism?
Saying "I'm from the South" or "I'm from the North"
Which treaty limited the number of warships on the Great Lakes and reduced conflicts between the US and Britain?
The Rush-Bagot Agreement
What overturned the Missouri Compromise 30 years after it was issued?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
Was Missouri considered a slave state or a free state?
Slave state
Who created the steamboat?
Robert Fulton
What is the census?
The official count of a population.
What countries were involved in the Convention of 1818?
Britain and USA
What event in history would the Missouri Compromise eventually help start?
The Civil War
Why did the US switch to train tracks as opposed to building canals?
They were easier and cheaper
Who was the western pioneer that explored Kentucky?
Daniel Boone
What is a road on which tolls are collected?
Turnpilkes
What did the Adams-Onis Treaty do?
Gave Florida to the Us and created a boundary between the US and Spanish territory
What did the Missouri Compromise do?
It made Missouri a slave state and said that slavery was excluded from all new states in the Louisiana Purchase north of the southern boarder of Missouri.
What was the name of Madison's plan to make America economically self-sufficient?
The American System
Who was president when the Monroe Doctrine was enacted?
James Monroe
What is a canal?
An artificial waterway
What did President Monroe issue to keep Europeans out of the western hemisphere?
The Monroe Doctrine
If Missouri had become a state right away, which group of states would have had the majority in the senate?
The slave states
Did most new inventions and innovations help industrialize the North or South?
The North
Who organized a slave rebellion to try to resist the Missouri Compromise?
Denmark Versey
What is a lock?
A separate compartment in which water levels rise and fall in order to raise or lower boats on a canal.
What treaty stopped Indian attacks into Georgia and other southern territories?
The Spanish Treaty
Why did defenders of slavery believe that not allowing Missouri to have slavery would be unfair to future states?
They believed that if congress made the decisions that new states would have fewer rights than the original ones.
What is one thing Madison wanted to accomplish with the American System?
Improve the countries transportation system
Establish a new national bank to promote national currency
Establish a protective tariff to make American goods cheaper than European goods