Question

Chapter 16 Questions: The Young
Nation Grows—Part 1
p. 199
1. The term “_____” refers to patriotism and a
sense of national identity.
2. The time from about 1815 to 1825 was known
as the Era of _____.
3. The ___ Dynasty consisted of presidents
Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe.
p. 200
4. The American System (proposed by Speaker
of the House Henry Clay) consisted of what
three parts?
5. Why did the South oppose tariffs?
p. 201
6. When the government spends money on
such things as roads and canals, they are
spending money on _____.
7. The _____ connected New York City with the
Great Lakes region.
p. 202
8. It is said that the American _____ began in
Rhode Island when Samuel Slater built the
first spinning mill.
9. The _____ girls were factory workers
employed in Lowell, Massachusetts by
Francis Cabot Lowell.
p. 203
10. Eli Whitney introduced _____ parts for
muskets.
11. The existence of interchangeable parts
created the possibility of _____.
12. _____ is the inventor of the telegraph and of
Morse Code.

13. When _____ devised improvements to the
steam engine, factories no longer needed to
be located near rivers.
14. River transportation improved when _____
perfected the steamboat.
p. 204
15. While farms in the Midwest supplied
Northeastern factory workers with _____, the
Northeast supplied the Midwest with _____.
16. Eli Whitney’s cotton gin increased the
production of cotton in the South, but it also
ended the hope that _____ would quietly fade
away.
17. Plantation owners, who reaped huge profits
in the South, made up about _____ percent of
the population.
pp. 205-206
18. Why was the Midwest more connected to
cities in the North rather than cities in the
South?
19. By 1808, the _____ slave trade had been
abolished, but a terrible _____ slave trade
took its place.
20. By the early part of the 19th century, almost
every enslaved person in the U.S. had been
_____.
21. _____ is a well-known enslaved person who
led a rebellion in Virginia in 1831.
22. Farmers who rented the land they farmed on
were known as _____ farmers.
23. In some Southern states, it was illegal to
teach a slave to _____.

put each answer in its own paragrapgh with no labeling like a number or anything

Answer 1

Nationalism.

Good Feelings.

Virginia Dynasty.

Protective tariffs, a national bank, and federal support for internal improvements (roads and canals).

Because tariffs raised the price of imported goods and favored Northern manufacturers, hurting Southern planters and their export-dependent economy.

Internal improvements.

Erie Canal.

Industrial Revolution.

Lowell girls.

Interchangeable.

Mass production.

Samuel F. B. Morse.

James Watt.

Robert Fulton.

Food (grain and meat) from the Midwest and manufactured goods from the Northeast.

Slavery.

About 2 percent.

Because transportation routes (canals, railroads, and lake shipping) and economic ties (Midwestern farms selling food to Northern factories and buying Northern manufactured goods) linked the Midwest more closely to Northern cities.

The international (importation) slave trade was abolished, but a terrible domestic (internal) slave trade took its place.

Born in the United States.

Nat Turner.

Tenant farmers.

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