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Amer. Hist. Ch. 7
American History Chapter 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Eli Whitney | demonstrated the first musket made of interchangable parts |
| interchangable parts | parts that exactly alike |
| mass production | the production of goods in large quantities |
| Industrial Revolution | social and economic reorganization that took place as machines replaced hand tools and large scale factory production developed |
| Samuel Slater | a British immigrant that had established the first succesful mechanized textile factory in America |
| cotton gin | helped to set the south on a different course of development from the north |
| Henry Clay | a house speaker began to promote the American System |
| American System | would unite the nations economic interests |
| National Road | began in 1811 and was a new road that extended from Cumberland, Maryland to Vandalia, Illinois |
| Erie Canal | one of the most impressive projects, stretched 363 miles |
| Tariff of 1816 | purpose was to improve roads, canals and lighthouses |
| Robert Fulton | recieved a charter from New York legislature that gave them exclusive right to run steam boats on rivers in that state |
| Clermont | Robert Falton's boat propelled by a steam engine cruised 150 miles up the Hudson River |
| Gibbons vs. Ogden | helped ensure that the federal government has the power to regulate just about everything that crosses state lines |
| McCulloch vs. Maryland | the courts ruling also supported the national government over the states governments |
| John Marshall | guided the supreme court to a ruling that stregthened the federal governments control over the economy |
| John Quincy Adams | established foreign policy guided by nationalism |
| nationalism | the belief that national interests should be placed ahead of regional concerns or the interests of other countries |
| James Monroe | the president |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | in this treaty Spain ceded Florida to the U.S. |
| Monroe Doctrine | is what the principles became known as |
| Missouri Compromise | a series of agreements |