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Chapter 4 Test

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Who ushered in the Era of the Common Man?
Andrew Jackson
What is Mudslinging?
Using negative criticism of your opponents to gain votes
What political party supported Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams?
Whigs
Where did most of Andrew Jackson's supporters live?
South and West
What agreement decided whether states would be admitted into the Union as Free or Slave States?
Missouri Compromise
What was Andrew Jackson's nickname?
Old Hickory
The election of 1824 ended with no decisive win, who decided the next President?
House of Representatives
What area wanted a weak Federal government and strong state government?
South and West
What means before the war?
Antebellum
Why did farming decline in the North?
Rocky and not fertile soil, climate
Why did many farmers and immigrants move to the cities in the North?
Factory jobs
What type of issues are associated with living in an urban area?
Overcrowding, crime, fire, sanitation and families
What is the Lowell Mill System?
Textile mill employees (Single woman/children) who lived around the mill, creating a "company town".
What are Unions and what do they accomplish?
Group of workers united to get better conditions and more rights
What invention helped increase the amount of slavery?
Cotton gin
Approximately how many slaves lived in America when the Civil War began?
Four million
Nickname for the South?
Cotton Kingdom
Define Yeoman?
Common farmer in the South
What were Slave Codes?
Laws that helped control slaves
How were slaves bought and sold?
Auctions
What was the Underground Railroad used for?
For slaves to escape
Samuel Slater?
Invented textile mills
Samuel Morse?
Invented the telegraph
Eli Whitney?
Invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts
John Deere?
Invented the steel plow
Robert Fulton?
Invented the steamboat
Noah Webster?
Defined American and British English as different
Cyrus McCormick and what his invention did?
Mechanical reaper, farmers could harvest larger pieces of land
What area of the country had an economy that was based on the factory system?
North
Tariff?
Tax on foreign products
Who worked at the Lowell Mill?
Single woman and children
What is a man made river?
Canal
What did the most to encourage westward expansion and settlement?
Railroads
While the North depended on Industrialization the South depended on?
Agriculture/agrarianism
Who is known for the Era of Good Feeling?
Monroe
Who's Court increased supremacy of the Federal Government?
John Marshall
Who owned Florida prior to it becoming part of the United States of America?
Spain
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
A statement that declared that the Americas were off limits to the Europeans
What is the American System and who is known for designing it?
The American System, founded by Henry Clay, planned on encouraging economic growth as the country expanded westward
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