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National and Regional Growth (Ch. 11) People
For each definition, identify the person being described. Except for Native Americans, people have full names. All names need to be spelled correctly.
1. ______Secretary of State during the term of James Monroe who successfully negotiated the Adams-Onís Treaty in 1819 that acquired Florida and set the boundary line between the U.S. and Spain; delivered a speech in 1821 against colonization and authored the Monroe Doctrine
2. ______Representative from South Carolina who supported improvements in transportation, he declared in 1817 “Let us bind the Republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals.”
3. ______Representative from Kentucky who proposed the American System in 1815 and the Missouri Compromise in 1820
4. ______Blacksmith who in 1836 invented a lightweight steel plow
5. ______His steamboat the Clermont was the first and made the 300-mile round trip between New York City and Albany in 62 hours in 1807
6. ______Sent by President Monroe to stop Seminole raids from Florida into the U.S., entered Florida and claimed it for the U.S. in 1817, led to the Adams-Onís Treaty
7. ______Combined spinning and weaving into one factory built in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1813; started the factory city that bears his name and employed young farm girls as labor
8. ______Supreme Court Chief Justice who further strengthened the power of the federal government and the Court in the cases of McCulloch v. Maryland in 1819 and Gibbons v. Ogden in 1824
9. ______Helped open the Midwest to farming when he patented a mechanical reaper in 1834
10. ______Artist who invented the telegraph and the code it needed to operate it in 1837
11. ______Elected president in 1816 and 1820, his time in office was known as the “Era of Good Feeling”, he acquired Florida, signed the compromise that admitted Maine and Missouri as states, and issued a statement of American foreign policy that bears his name
12. ______Improved the invention of the steamboat by giving it a more powerful engine in 1816, launched trade and transportation on the rivers.
13. ______Englishman who came to America in 1789 with smuggled British technology, opened his first spinning mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1790
14. ______Led a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831 that killed 55 whites, was captured and hanged, this rebellion led to harsher laws against African Americans in the South
15. ______His invention of interchangeable parts in 1801 led to mass production that changed life in the North, and invention of the cotton gin in 1793 changed the social, economic, and political structure of the South