Who?
What?
When?
Where?
Why?
100

WHO invented the telegraph?

Samuel F.B. Morse

100

Be SPECIFIC! WHAT did blacksmith John Deere invent in 1836 to help farmers?

Lightweight plow with steel cutting edge

100

Name the year WHEN Cyrus McCormick invented the reaper.

1834

100

From WHERE to WHERE (city to city) did Robert Fulton sail his steamboat in a record 62 hours?

New York to Albany

100

Name ONE of the three reasons WHY New England had a lot of manufacturing growth.

Fast moving rivers, ships and access to the ocean, willing labor force

200

WHO (country) signed the Rush-Bagot Agreement with the United States?

Great Britain

200

WHAT was invented that boosted the production of clean cotton?

Cotton Gin

200

WHEN (year) was the Adams-Onis Treaty signed? 

1819

200

WHERE (section) in our country did New England trade manufactured goods in exchange for food?

Midwest

200

WHY was steam power important to factories later on?

Didn't have to build the factory next to a river

300

WHO (State) was admitted to the Union as free state under the Missouri Compromise?

Maine

300

WHAT did Congress fund that went from Cumberland, MD to eventually Vandalia, IL? 

National Road

300

WHEN (event or year) did the trading of slaves already in the United States increased?

After slave trade was banned in 1808

300

WHERE (city, state) did Samuel Slater first build a spinning mill?

Pawtucket, RI

300

WHY was Eli Whitney's invention of interchangeable parts for muskets important?

Speeded up production, made repairs easy, could hire lower-paid unskilled labor

400

WHO led the largest slave rebellion mentioned in this chapter?

Nat Turner

400

WHAT was not allowed in the Louisiana Territory north of 36 30' north latitude?

Slavery

400

Name the time period (from what year to what year) WHEN the number of miles of track for steam-powered trains went from 30 miles to 9,000 miles.

1830-1850

400

WHERE (section) in our country did New England trade manufactured goods in exchange for cotton?

South

400

Name a reason WHY the Erie Canal was so important. 

Unified the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes Region to New England, allowed farm products from Great Lakes Region to go East, manufactured goods west, led to NYC becoming the largest city in the country

500

WHO designed the American System?

Henry Clay

500

WHAT did President Monroe issue that said that the Americans were closed to further colonization?

Monroe Doctrine

500

WHEN (event or year) did the Era of Good Feelings begin?

Election of 1816

500

WHERE was the new U.S.-Canadian border located?

49th Parallel

500

WHY were both McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden important causes?

Strengthened the power of the Federal Government