Chapter 11: National and Regional Growth (1800-1844) Homework Packet

MONDAY
Read pages 341-345
Chapter 11 Vocabulary
Define the vocabulary words
1) Industrial Revolution
7) Nationalism
2) Factory system
8) American system
3) Lowell mills
9) Erie Canal
4) Interchangeable part
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Sectionalism
5) Cotton gin
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Missouri Compromise
6) Spirituals
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Monroe Doctrine
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TUESDAY
Read pages 348-353
Design a Robert Fulton Plastic Boat
1) Think of a design for a plastic bottle boat that you think will win in a race.
2) Draw your design and explain it on a piece of paper.

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***Build a boat using a plastic bottle, rubber bands, Popsicle
sticks/chopsticks, glue/tape/staples, corks, and other reusable/recyclable
items***
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WEDNESDAY
Read pages 354-359
Write Morse Code Message.
1) Use the information to write 3 complete sentences (English and Morse Code).

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THURSDAY
Chapter 11 Review Questions (ON THE BACK)
1) When did factory machines begin to replace hand tools and manufacturing replace farming as
the main form of work?
2) What was a method of production that brought many workers and machines together into one
building?
3) Who travelled from England, knew how to make thread/cloth, and built the first waterpowered textile mill in America?
4) The Lowell Mills were located in what city and state?
5) Who demonstrated the use of interchangeable parts with muskets to George Washington?
6) Who invented a steamboat that could move against the current or a strong wind?
7) Who invented the telegraph, a machine that sent long and short pulses of electricity along a
wire that could be translated into messages?
8) What did Eli Whitney invent in 1793 that cleaned cotton much faster and far more efficiently
than human workers?
9) What were religious folk songs, which often contained coded messages about a planned or an
owners unexpected return?
10) Who led a slave rebellion and is quoted as saying, Remember that ours is not a war for
robberyit is a struggle for freedom.
11) What is a feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward ones country?
12) Who was a Representative from Kentucky, a strong nationalist, and supporter of the
American System?
13) Who became the fourth President of the United States in the Election of 1816?
14) In the Convention of 1818, __________ parallel became the U.S.-Canadian border.
15) What American general followed the Seminoles into Florida, which was a Spanish territory,
and claimed Florida for the United States?
16) In what treaty did Spain hand over Florida to the United States and give up claims to the
Oregon Country?
17) What is a vocabulary word for loyalty to the interests of ones own region ahead of the
interests of the nation as a whole?
18) As part of the Missouri Compromise, Missouri was admitted as a slave state, and
__________ was admitted as a free state.
19) Missouri Compromise banned slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the __________
parallel, Missouris southern border.
20) What was a policy of U.S. opposition to any European interference in the Western
Hemisphere announced by President Monroe in 1823?

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