Chapter 11 - Growth and Expansion

In a capitalist system, the government owns property and decides how to use it.

• True

• False

Daniel Boone, an early western pioneer, explored a Native American trail through the Appalachian Mountains.

• True

• False

The National Road helped connect the new state of Ohio with the South.

• True

• False

James Monroe faced many Federalist candidates during the 1816 presidential election.

• True

• False

Official count of the population

• Lowell girls

• Eli Whitney

• census

• Missouri Compromise

Factory workers

• Lowell girls

• Eli Whitney

• census

• Missouri Compromise

Invented the cotton gin

• Lowell girls

• Eli Whitney

• census

• Missouri Compromise

Maintained a balance of power in the Senate

• Lowell girls

• Eli Whitney

• census

• Missouri Compromise

Economic freedom, profit, private property, and competition are the major elements of which type of economic system?

• businesses

• corporation

• free enterprise

• industrial growth

How did business and government officials plan to connect New York City with the Great Lakes Region?

• a canal

• a steamboat

• the National Road

• the Wilderness Road