key terms american system market economy transportation and communications revolution erie canal, baltimore and ohio relailroad, etc nationalism and sectionalism midterm short answer - key term, why is it significant, brief paragraph 15m/c 10 fill in the blank 2pts a piece october 6 generally, doesn't put words on powerpoint these are important: internal improvements "let us bind the republic together with a perfect system of roats and canals. let us conquer space." - John C. Calhoun in 1800, US was generally suck along the east coast expanded to old southwest then expanded to large block to include parts west of mississippi river era of good feelings - pretty awesome except for some issues like panic of 1819 and missouri crisis monroe is leader of era unprecedented westward expansion 1800, 5% of americans lived west of appalachians 1820, 25% population doubles to 9.6 million during this time people worried about the growth and that the nation would be pulled apart madison and calhoun recognize this in 1817, madison goes to calhoun, and says there needs to be a good way to bind people together they come up with transportation bonus bill to fund transportation projects, madison vetos b/c unconstitutional american system/plan: each part of nation has a specialized part of economy, increases efficiency, south focuses on agriculture, north on industry, west on raw materials less mixed economy, people worry about government involvement in economy start creating turnpikes, successful, people willing to pay to use canals being built 1816, 100 miles of canals, 1840, lots more miles of canal built erie canal in new york, 1825, 364 miles, lots of locks towed by horses robert fulton - takes steam engine and put it in boat, propels ship by steam, goes up the hudson river let large ships get places where they couldn't before trip from new orleans to kentucky went from 4 months to 4.5 days henry schrieve - operator of steam ship line that conquered red river raft (natural blockage on mississippi river), cut it out and burned it 1840ish steam boat leads to steam locomotive, looked wonky, dangerous, open carriages for passengers steam power winning out over horse power miles of railroad track skyrockets shipping prices getting extremely cheap, less than 10C/mile factories start cropping up for textiles, women, children, immigrants b/c cheap and easily exploitable gibbon vs ogden - fulton's monopoly no longer valid, fed gov't to control commerce capitalism and imperialism start becoming important monroe doctrine - manifest destiny ecologically - stripping land of resources, scars from canals and railroads status now equating with money