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Growth & Expansion of the North and South (Ch. 12 and 15) 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. ___________________________ In 1775, he led settlers on horseback from the Cumberland Gap through the Appalachian Mountains into Kentucky. This new Wilderness Road became the main southern highway from the eastern states to the West

3. ___________________________ Representative from South Carolina who supported improvements in transportation, but spoke for southern interests.

4. ___________________________ Representative from Kentucky who proposed the American System in 1815 and the Missouri Compromise in 1820

5. ___________________________ Sent by President Monroe to stop Seminole raids from Florida into the U.S., entered Florida and claimed it for the U.S. in 1818, led to the Adams-Onís Treaty

6. ___________________________ Combined spinning and weaving into one factory built in Massachusetts in 1814; started the factory city that bears his name and employed young farm girls as labor

7. ___________________________ 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

8. __________________________ 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

9. __________________________ Englishman who came to America with smuggled British technology, opened his first spinning mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1790

10. __________________________ 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

11. ___________________________ Designed and built Tom Thumb, the first American steam-powered locomotive

12. ___________________________ Blacksmith who in 1837 invented a lightweight steel plow which helped farmers in the Midwest

13. ___________________________ His steamboat the Clermont made fast upstream travel possible

14. ___________________________ Helped open the Midwest to farming when he patented a mechanical reaper in 1834

15. __________________________ Artist who invented the telegraph and the code it needed to operate it in 1844

16. __________________________ Born into slavery, most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, even though there was a price on her head, she made 19 trips into the South to help lead others to freedom

17. __________________________ 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

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