The great success of the Erie Canal, which opened in 1825, launched a canal-building boom in the United States.

Alexander Hamilton saw America’s future as a metropolitan, commercial, industrial society, in contrast to Thomas Jefferson’s nation of small farmers.

Factory work in the mid-nineteenth century involved all of the following EXCEPT

During the 1820s and 1830s, canal building projects 

The first major industry to industrialize in the U.S. was the textile industry.

It was assumed that republican governments would include all of the following EXCEPT

The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, authored by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, argued that states had the right to declare federal laws unconstitutional.

As secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton sought to

The Constitution most decisively strengthened  

As part of the Great Compromise, each state would have three Representatives and Senators in Congress.