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What is Nationalism?
After the War of 1812, a strong sense of _____________ swept the United States.
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What is the Industrial Revolution?
A revolution in manufacturing, known as ______________, dramatically changed the American economy and way of life.
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What is cotton?
The South's most important cash crop
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What is Missouri?
The _____________ Compromise tried to resolve the growing disagreement between the Northern and Southern states over the issue of slavery.
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What is the Hudson River?
The Erie Canal connected Lake Erie to _________________.
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What is the Tariff of 1816?
Congressed passed the _________________ to protect American manufacturing by taxing British imports to drive up their prices.
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What is Samuel F. B. Morse
_________________ began work on the telegraph n 1832 and developed a code for sending messages.
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What is slave labor?
The South's agricultural economy was based on _____________ labor.
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What is sectionalism?
The presidential elections of 1824 and 1828 highlighted the growing ______________ in the nation's politics.
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What is the steam engine?
The development of the _____________ led to the first railroads and extensive use of steamboats.
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What is John Marshall?
Chief Justice __________________ issued Supreme Court desisions that helped strengthen the national government.
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What is manufacturing? What is agriculture?
The North's economy was based on __________________. The South's economy was based on _______________________.
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What is yeoman?
_______________ farmers made up the majority of the white Southern population.
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What is mudslinging?
In the election of 1828, both candidates engaged in ________________________, criticizing each other's personalities and morals.
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What is protective?
The Tariff of 1816 was considered a _______________ tariff.
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What is Spain?
In the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819, Andrew Jackson acquired Florida from ______________________.
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What is Eli Whitney?
___________________ invented the cotton gin and popularized the concept of interchangeable parts, which revolutionized gun-making.
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What is Nat Turner?
A group of African Americans in Virginia carried out an uprising in 1831, led by __________________, an enslaved minister, who believed God had chosen him to bring his people out of slavery.
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What is Democratic Party?
The new political party that emerged as a result of division within the Democratic Republicans.
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What are strikes?
Factory labor unions used stoppages, or __________________, to improve their working conditions during this era of increasing industrialization.
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What is the Monroe Doctrine
The president's proclamation, known as the ______________________, marked the beginning of a long-term American policy of trying to prevent European powers from interfering in the Americas.
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What is labor unions?
In order to improve working conditions, some workers joined together to form __________________.
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What is the Planters, the Yeomans, and the enslaved.
The three major social classes of the South were:
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What is Henry Clay?
Former influential Speaker of the House and candidate in the election of 1824. Creator of "The American System."
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What are "favorite sons"
Candidates who enjoyed the support of leaders from their own state or region.
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