Chapter 11: Growth and Expansion

What program called for a tariff to stimulate growth of American industries?

area defined by a feature or characteristic

factory workers

a market where there is only one provider

Miguel Hidalgo led the movement for independence in Venezuela and Colombia.

toll road

How did the British try to protect their inventions?

Which revolution changed the way people worked?

What was at the heart of the Industrial Revolution?

In what area did many new industrial towns develop?

What happened as a result of the formation of the Second Bank of the United States?

What are the separate canal compartments called where the water levels are raised or lowered?

How far west did the National Road reach?

Republican candidate for president in 1816 election

Where did most Americans live at the time of the first census?

In which country did changes in the way goods were made in the mid-1700s first appear?

Whose mill launched the factory system?

As political differences began to fade away, what phrase was used to describe the years after the War of 1812?

designed the Clermont

What were roads consisting of logs laid side by side called?

In a capitalist system, the government owns property and decides how to use it.

What was a significant development in the way goods were made?

How was the balance between the North and the South preserved in the Senate?

Corporations developed rapidly in the 1830s when legal obstacles to their formation were removed.

What was available in New England that was needed to run factory machinery?

changed how people worked

Where did early pioneer families tend to settle in communities?

official count of the population

invented cotton gin

loyalty to a region

James Monroe faced many Federalist candidates during the 1816 presidential election.

kept an even balance of power in the Senate

chief justice of the Supreme Court

The National Road helped connect the new state of Ohio with the South.

New England offered ideal conditions for farming.

Daniel Boone, an early western pioneer, explored a Native American trail through the Appalachian Mountains.

Why did the period of national harmony end?

Where did the United States's Industrial Revolution begin?

money for investment

Economic freedom, profit, private property, and competition are the major elements of which type of economic system?

What was the purpose of Henry Clay’s American System?

Which of the following called for a stop to European colonization of the Americas?

Which of these means of transportation contributed to the growth of river cities such as Cincinnati?

economic activity taking place between two or more states

invaded Spanish East Florida in 1818

type of business that can have many owners

Who was known as “The Great Compromiser” and believed strongly in the United States?

Which of the following is one of the major elements of free enterprise?

What does Monroe say should give American citizens joy?

The period in history when many people left their homes and farms to work in mills was called the Industrial Revolution.

Libraries, museums, and a variety of shops were in plentiful supply in rural America in the 1800s.

Who invented the cotton gin?

When Spanish officials realized that they could not hold Florida against the Americans, what did they do?

equipment that makes use of knowledge and skill to solve a problem or do a task

In the quote by President James Monroe, in the years following the War of 1812 Americans had a new spirit of

gives legal right to inventions

What gives inventors sole legal rights to their invention and its profits?

A patent gives a person legal rights regarding an invention.

Who developed the system of interchangeable parts?

Which road connected Ohio with the East?

the nation’s first federally funded highway

In three decisions in the early 1800s, whose powers were backed by the Supreme Court?

uniform pieces

nicknamed “The Great Compromiser”

building of roads, bridges, and canals

gave control of Florida to the United States

How did business and government officials plan to connect New York City with the Great Lakes Region?

What helped increase cotton production?

chartered in 1816 by Congress

Created in 1823, what became an important part of American foreign policy?