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| The Erie Canal connected Buffalo, on Lake Erie, with this city, on the Hudson River. | What is Albany? |
| It was the first federally financed paved road | What is the National (or Cumberland) Road? |
| He built the first commercially usable steamboat, and ran it north on the Hudson River in 1807. | Who is Robert Fulton |
| As mayor of New York, he championed the building of the Erie Canal. | Who is DeWitt Clinton? |
| When completed, it was 363 miles long. | What is the Erie Canal? |
| He was Samuel Slater’s partner in his first factory. | Who was Moses Brown? |
| Most of the early factories used this type of power. | What is water? |
| He set up the first cotton cloth factory at Waltham Massachusetts. | Who is Francis Cabot Lowell? |
| This early 19th Century war helped to stimulate American industry, because the war cut off most British imports. | What is the War of 1812? |
| In 1798, Eli Whitney used interchangeable parts and mass production to manufacture 10,000 of these. | What are muskets? |
| The main sources of immigrants to the U.S. from 1830 – 1860 were England, Ireland, and this central European country. | What is Germany? |
| This third political party, formed in the 1850s was anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic. | What is the Know-Nothing (or American) Party? |
| Because much of this crop died in the 1840s, many Irish, who depended on the crop, were forced to emigrate. | What is the potato? |
| Until the 1840s, these state laws said that labor unions were illegal. | What are Conspiracy Labor Laws? |
| Although short-lived, this was the first attempt at a national labor union. | What is the National Trades Union? |
| The year that Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. | What is 1793? |
| The first year of the Irish potato famine. | What is 1845? |
| The year that the Erie Canal was finished. | What is 1825? |
| The year that Andrew Jackson lost the presidential election to John Quincy Adams. | What is 1824? |
| The year that Andrew Jackson was first elected President. | What is 1828? |
| Another term for cloth, this was the first product in early American industry. | What are textiles? |
| He invented a mechanical reaper for cutting grain in 1837. | Who is Cyrus McCormick? |
| By 1860, there were about 30,000 miles of these in the U.S. | What are railroad tracks? |
| In 1816, the federal government passed the first one of these, which was designed to protect American industry from foreign competition. | What is a protective tarff? |
| An important part of the market revolution was when farmers began to do this, i.e. they began to grow only one crop, which they would then sell for cash. | What is specialize (or engage in specialization)? |
| Andrew Jackson was born on the border between North Carolina and this state. | What is South Carolina? |
| Jackson was accused of enlarging this practice of rewarding loyal party workers with government jobs. | What is the spoils system? |
| In 1818, Jackson invaded this Spanish territory, trying to end Indian attacks into the U.S. | What is Florida? |
| The nickname for President Jackson’s informal advisors | What is kitchen cabinet? |
| During Jackson’s presidency, these began to replace the congressional caucus, as the way to pick presidential candidates. | What are national nominating party conventions? |
