PLEASE HELP I HAVE 10 QUESTIONS I WILL GIVE BRAINLIST What was most significant about Robert Fulton’s steamboat?
It was the first to successfully travel long distances.
It was the first working steamboat to receive a patent.
It was the first to demonstrated the ability to travel to the Northwest Territory.
It was the first commercially used steamboat.
One of the reasons Henry Clay believed a national bank was needed was to
levy an import tax.
improve urban markets.
connect distant regions.
stabilize prices.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, what was the primary means for transporting goods?
canals
railroads
roads
rivers
Henry Clay planned to fund the American System largely through
tariffs on foreign imports.
sales of manufactured goods.
improvements to infrastructure.
sales of food and cash crops.
Henry Clay’s American System proposed improvements to transportation. How did these changes impact trade among regions of the United States?
They made major waterways, such as the Mississippi River, unnecessary.
They made it easier to move goods and raw materials around the country.
They made New Orleans the new center of industry in the South.
They made the Northwest Territory the only farming region in the country.
Which best describes the development of farming in the United States by 1850?
It had become more productive and less difficult.
It had become less productive and more difficult.
It was centered exclusively in the South.
It was centered exclusively in the Midwest.
Which became a major center of commerce and trade after the Erie Canal was built in the early 1800s?
New Orleans
Washington, DC
New York City
St. Louis
After the development of a steam-powered locomotive in the mid-1800s,
the laying of new rail lines grew quickly.
national road construction came to a halt.
steamship travel sharply declined in popularity.
travel by steamboat was concentrated in canals.
Henry Clay was known for his skill in
crafting compromises.
exercising veto power.
inventing the steam engine.
leading the Democratic Party.
What was the most important goal of the American System?
to start growing cash crops in the South
to lower taxes on imported goods
to promote major industries
to abolish river transportation