Era of Good Feelings
Era of Good Feelings #2
Manifest Destiny
Sectionalism
Technology
100
In 1806 President Thomas Jefferson signed a law and created this toll road from Cumberland, Maryland to Ohio.
What is The National Road.
100
Who did the U.S. purchase the Louisiana Territory from and for how much?
France - Napoleon and $15 million dollars
100
What did Manifest Destiny mean?
People believed it meant that we were supposed to spread west across the country and bring our culture, religion, and way of life/civilization to others, because it was our God given destiny.
100
This part of the country favored business and industry, with factories leading the way.
The North.
100
What is the device and who created it?
Cotton Gin & Eli Whitney
200
This is a tax/tariff on goods coming from another country, making them more expensive. This forced Americans to buy things made in America.
What is a Protective Tariff
200
True or False?
At this time in U.S. History, slavery existed in entire country, both North and South?
True
200
What would be the negative impact of the cotton gin?
Cotton could be cleaned faster, which means now more was planted and more slaves would be needed.
200
This part of the country relied primarily on slave labor for an agrarian society.
The South.
200
What is the process for making and improving steel called?
The Bessemer Process
300
What was the American System?
A series of major changes that made the U.S. stronger through building roads, canals, and a national bank.
300
What natural resources did many New England factories use to power their equipment before electricity?
water and coal
300
How did Manifest Destiny affect Native American tribes?
They would lose their land due to lies and broken treaties, killed through violence, disease and then placed on reservations.
300
What country did we get Florida from with the Adams-Onis Treaty?
Spain
300
What is this engineering wonder that created access from the Great Lakes to New York Harbor?
The Erie Canal
400
Why was it called "The Era of Good Feelings?"
It was called this because America was feeling good about itself after it beat England in the War of 1812, bought the Louisiana Purchase, funded the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was growing powerful and moving West!
400
What type of boat is this and why was this technology so vital to the growing economy of the U.S.
This was a steamboat invented by Robert Fulton. It was vital because it could sail up and down river against the current. This meant that trade could happen all of the time without the need for sails, wind, or ropes to tow boats along the shore.
400
Why was the change to interchangeable parts so important in the growth of our economy?
Because now things could be mass produced on an assembly line and not handmade one at a time.
400
Why did southerners want to take their slaves with them when they went west?
Because they were considered property.
400
Who invented this new farm technology to speed up the harvesting process and what is it called?
Cyrus McCormick and the mechanical reaper
500
Identify the 4 points of the Monroe Doctrine
1). The U.S. will not interfere with the affairs of European Nations (we won't mess with stuff in Europe)
2). The U.S. would recognize and not interfere with the colonies in North and South America
3). Western Hemisphere was off limits to other nations for future colonies (everyone stays away from the West)
4). If other nations did try to colonize Western Hemisphere lands, the U.S. would see it as a hostile act and may lead to eventual war( you come over here and we take it as a threat)
500
Why were some people in the U.S. afraid that we now had all this new territory from the Louisiana Purchase?
Because it would affect the spread of slavery and allow it to grow.
500
What are 3 parts of the Missouri Compromise?
1). Missouri becomes a slave state
2). Maine becomes a free state
3). Any states that want to become states after 1820 must become free states
500
This person would create the first textile factories in the U.S. These factories would make New England wealthy.
Samuel Slater
500
Who was the inventor of this long distance communication device and what was it called?
Samuel Morse and the telegraph