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Chapter 11 Social Studies Study Guide By Vivian Overbeck
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Section 1- The Industrial Revolution
Main Idea: During the first half of the 1800s, the Industrial Revolution caused dramatic changes in the way Americans
worked and lived.
Explain what the Industrial Revolution was and its hold on the United States.
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Explain why Lowell, Massachusetts was called a model factory town.
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Describe what daily life was like in early factories.
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Describe the impact that the Industrial Revolution had on American cities.
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Key Terms Matching
____ capital
a. gradual process which machines replaced hand tools,
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b. movement of population from farms to cities.
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c. money raised for a business venture
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d. machine invented in 1764 that spun more than one thread at once
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e. person who invests in business to make a profit
____ Lowell girls
f. identical parts made by a machine made for a specific item
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g. method of producing goods that workers and machines together
____ Industrial Revolution
h. a young woman who worked at a mill in Mass. during the industrial revolution
Section 2- Americans Move Westward
Main Idea: Improvements in transportation in the first half of the 1800s helped make it easier to move people and goods
in the expanding nation.
Explain how settlers traveled west in the early 1800s.
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List and explain the steps that Americans took to improve their roads.
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Describe how steamboats and canals improved transportation for the Americans.
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Key Terms Fill in the Blanks
Flatboat
Turnpike
Erie Canal
National
Road
Corduroy
road
Clermont
Lancaster
Turnpike
________________ was the first steamboat to be successful in American waters.
A road made of logs is a ________________________.
An artificial water way that linked a Great Lake to the Hudson River is _______________________.
A road built in the 1790s that linked 2 Pennsylvanian cities is ___________________________________.
A transportation vehicle used to transport heavy loads on waterways was called a _______________________.
____________________ was the first federally funded road project.
A road built by a company that charges a toll to use it is a _______________.
Section 3- Unity and Division
Main Idea: Despite some tensions between different sections, the nation enjoyed an “era of good feelings” after the
War of 1812.
Discuss the role that sectionalism played during the Era of Good Feelings.
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Describe how Congress helped American industry after the War of 1812.
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Explain Henry Clay’s American system.
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Explain how the Supreme Court gave more power to the federal government.
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Key Terms Questions
Era of Good
Feelings
Sectionalism
American
System
Internal
McCulloch v.
improvements Maryland
Gibbons v.
Ogden
Interstate
commerce
What was the eight years of James Monroe’s presidency? ________________________________.
What are businesses that cross state lines? _________________________.
What were improvements to roads, bridges, and canals? __________________________.
What was loyalty to a state instead of to a country? ______________________________.
What was a case when the Supreme Court upheld the power of the federal government to regulate
commerce? ___________________________________.
What was the program for economic growth promoted by Henry Clay? _______________________.
What was the court case that the Supreme Court said that states had no right to interfere with federal
institutions within their borders? _______________________________.
Section 4- New Nations in the Americas
Main Idea: The United States issued the Monroe Doctrine to discourage Europe from meddling in the affairs of
the newly independent nations of Latin America.
Explain how Latin American nations won independence and became republics.
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Discuss how the United States got Florida from Spain.
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Describe the purpose of Monroe Doctrine.
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Key Terms Matching
____creole
____ Negro Fort
a. settlement of fugitive African slaves in the Spanish colony Florida
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____ intervention
____ United Provinces of Central America
____Adams-Onis Treaty
____Monroe Doctrine
____Republic of Great Columbia
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