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Who created the telegraph and what was it used for?
Samuel F. B. Morse created the telegraph to allow people to communicate over long distances.
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Eli Whitney transformed manufacturing by making items exactly alike.  What was this called?
Interchangeable parts
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True or False - the cotton gin reduced the need for slaves in the South.
False
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Most of the nation's first factories were built here.
New England
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Why did the Northeast and the Midwest develop a close bond?
There was a great deal of trade between them.
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Name 3 ways better transportation changed life in the 1800s.
Larger markets for products; movement of people and products was cheaper and easier; encouraged national unity by linking distant places.
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The Monroe Doctrine had a section about what foreign country?
Latin America
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What did slaves use spirituals for?
To secretly spread plans to escape.
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What modes of transportation improved the nation's economy?
Canals, steamboats, improved roads, steam powered trains.
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What was the Missouri Compromise?
A plan to allow Slavery to spread into some areas but not others.
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In 1818 and 1819 the U.S. settled border disputes with which foreign countries?
Britain and Spain
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A person who put the interests of his/her state or region ahead of what is best for the nation had what attitude?
Sectionalism
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What did the Supreme Court rule in the case of Gibbons v. Ogden?
Only the federal government had the right to control interstate commerce.
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What was the American System?
A plan to make the United States economically self-sufficient.
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The Supreme Court's ruling in such cases as McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden had what important overall effect?
The created a stronger federal government.