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36 Cards in this Set
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The change from an agrarian society to one based on industry which began in Great Britain and spread to te United States around 1800.
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Industrial Revolution
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Economic system of the United States.
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Capitalism
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Money
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Capital
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People are free to buy and sell and produce whatever they want. They can also work wherever they wish.
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Free Enterprise
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Scientific discoveries that simplify work.
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Technology
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A simple machine that quickly and effciently removed the seeds from the cotton fiber.
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Cotton Gin
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This gives an inventor the sole legal right to the invention and its profits for a certain amount of time.
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Patent
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A system bringing manufacturing steps together in one place to increase efficiency.
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Factory System
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These are identical machine parts that could be quickly put together to make a complete product.
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Interchangable Parts
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The official counnt of a population.
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Census
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Toll roads
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Turnpike
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An artificial waterway
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Canal
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Separate compartments where water levels were raised or lowered.
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Locks
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Loyalty to their region.
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Sectionalism
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Federal, state, and privately funded projects such as canals and roads
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Internal Improvements
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This system included a protective tariff; a program of internal improvements especially the building of roads and canals, to stimulate trade; and a national bank to control inflation and to lend money to build developing industries.
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American System
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The removal of weapons
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Disarmament
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A border without armed forces.
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Demilitarized [Border]
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Tried by a military court
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Court-Martialed
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Why did the Industrial Revolution began in New England?
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The soil was poor. Farming difficult. People leave their farms to find work.
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Who introduced the use of interchangeable parts?
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Eli Whitney
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What was a result of the industrial growth of the 1800's?
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Easier to produce things cheaper and more efficient.
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What are the elements of making a profit?
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Competition, private property, profit, economic freedom
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What was the Second Bank of the United States? When was it charted?
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The Second Bank of the United States in 1816.
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How did the use of steamboats effect shipping of goods?
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Cheaper and faster
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How did canals effect shipping?
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East and Midwest joined so they could travel from one side of a country to another.
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National Road
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Connected Maryland and Illinois- east to west
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How and with who did Pioneers migrate west with?
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Traveled w/ conestoga wagons traveled w/ people from their home communities
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What was the Era of Good Feelings?
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The absence of major political divisions after the war of 1812 because no major conflicts.
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Who was John C. Calhoun and what did he support?
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A planter; South Carolina; warhawk and nationalist
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Who was John Quincy Adams?
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Massachusettes; Son of John Adams
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What was the Missouri Compromise?
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Official in March 1820 provided for admission of Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
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What was the Tariff of 1816?
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Protected American industries from foreign competition.
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Who was Henry Clay?
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Speaker of the House of Representitives and Delagation.
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Andrew Jackson
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General who invaded Spanish and East Florida
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Miguel Hidalgo
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Rebellion against Spanish government.
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