Reference no: EM13170134

1. The most formidable natural barrier between the original states and "the West" of the early nineteenth century was _______________.
2. The 44-inch muzzle-loading weapon that was the western pioneer's inseparable, inevitable companion was the __________________.
3. Thomas Hart Benton was nicknamed "Old Bullion" because he trusted gold as money and distrusted ___________.
4. The policy allowing squatters to purchase the land they occupied at the government's minimum price was called _________.
5. __________ was the great champion of federally financed construction projects in the western states.
6. The capstone of Henry Clay's "American System," an institution first created by Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists, was _____________________.
7. The ____________, Pennsylvania's response to New York's Erie Canal, was a debacle compared to its inspiration.
8. Before the steamboat, the chief means of shipping the products of the Old Northwest down the Mississippi River was _____.
9. The first workable steamboat was demonstrated to the delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 by _________.
10. The first trunk line railroad in the United States was the _________________ Railroad.