The North Changes
Answer the questions using complete sentences on your own paper.

The American System
1. What was the purpose of the American System?
2. Whose idea was it?
3. What were the three parts of it?
4. What did Clay hope the American System would do?

The Monroe Doctrine
5. What were the four points of the Monroe Doctrine?
6. What did the Monroe Doctrine warn other countries about?
7. How did the United States now see itself after the Monroe Doctrine?

The Erie Canal
8. When did construction begin on Erie Canal?
9. When did the Erie Canal open?
10. How many miles long was the canal?
11. What waterways did the Erie Canal connect?

Shipping in New York
12. How did the canal help merchants who were shipping goods between New York and Lake Erie?
13. How did the Erie Canal pay off the money it cost to build it?

Look at the map below and answer the rest of the questions.

14. What are four major cities along the Erie Canal?
15. What river connected the Erie Canal to Albany?
16. At what city does the Erie Canal start near on Lake Erie?
17. What route would a ship take to get from Albany to Lake Ontario?
18. What body of water is farthest west on the map?