Choice 1: Tariff

Position: North

• The Tariff helped the North’s Manufacturing Company from Great Britain


• So they added 25% to Britain’s $5


• The Tariff worked so well until the south argued that the South need to buy and Trade with England, but the South has to pay the extra 25% when buying from England.

v     All this information comes from American Nation pg. 312-313.

Choice 2: Turnpike

Position North

• The National Turnpike was created in the 1790s. Then in 1806, Congress approved spending for the National Road.


• It was to run from Cumberland, Maryland to Western Virginia.


• The Turnpike Connected states after states.


• It also made manufacturing easier by transporting goods everywhere in the Nation.


• Anther good thing is that the Wagon driver had to pay a toll


• Bad news is that freight haulers increased traffic.


• “In Swampy areas, the roads were made of logs. These roads were called Corduroy roads because the roads looked like Corduroy cloths.


• These roads helped wagons from sinking in. Even though it made a bumpy ride.”(Pg. 306-307)


• They wanted to create stone bridges, but that was costly and wooden bridges rotted too quickly, so Massachusetts Carpenter created a wooden bridge with a roof to protect it from the weather. These bridges lasted much longer.

Choice 3: Admission of a State

·        If Missouri comes in then the senate would go to the South.

·        Then Senator Henry Clay, the Compromiser, says that why doesn’t Maine and Missouri come in at the same time and one as a slave state and one as a free state.

·        With the Missouri compromise comes a line that divides slave and free. The line is at Latitude 36 degrees and 30 degrees

Choice 4: Technology

• Some of these new inventions include Steam Transport and Canals.


• Steam Transports is River Transportation


• Canals allow Boats to cross a stretch of land.


• When Steam Transportation goes upstream is difficult.


• Then the solution to traveling upstream came

The Steam Engine invented by John Fitch was extremely helpful because traveling Upstream took 17 weeks at most. Fitch opened a Ferry Business on the Delaware River, but it closed down.

• A stump Puller was invented when they built the Erie Canal.


• It was invented by several inventors