Chapter 10 Study Review Name on your Paper Objective: Students will be able to review the major facts of Chapter 10

Henry Clay’s American System To enforce a protective tariff to get funding for transportation improvements. To build better roads and canals in the country. Factories would prosper because raw materials would be cheaper to move from the west and south to the factories on the east coast. Produced, finished goods could then be shipped back to people in the south and west.

The Erie Canal Very important to the country. Lowered cost of shipping raw material and goods from the western great lakes -- back east -- and returned products to the west. Allowed people to live farther away from the rivers. Most importantly it united the country.

Sectionalism Caused problems and hurt the country People in different regions held very different opinions about tariffs, slavery, the national bank, canals and road importance. It ended the Era of Good Feelings and national harmony.

Convention of 1818- England Adams-Onis Treaty - Spain Convention of 1818--Set the official border between Canada and the United States. Andrew Jackson invaded Spanish west Florida in 1818 and set a strong example of “military strength” Spain gave up east Florida and signed the Adams-Onis Treaty in 1819.

American System Stimulated growth with a tariff (tax on imported goods) to provide money for transportation

John C. Calhoun Believed the tariffs would create higher prices for goods produced and people couldn’t afford them, so then they wouldn’t sell very many goods. The Tariff of 1816 made British goods more expensive to but by Americians.

Pioneers Traveled as families units west. They used wagons called schooners.

Vandalia, Illinois Western End Point for the National Road

Elements of Free Enterprise Competition Economic freedom Private property Profit

Eli Whitney Invented the Cotton Gin

Industrial Revolution Mid-1700’s changed the way goods were made and first appeared in England. Started in the area of America on Eastern Coast or New England. Patents controlled the legal rights or ownership of inventions.