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chapter 11 Flashcards

Changing American Life

1
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made machine that could separate seeds from cotton (cotton gin)

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Eli Whitney

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2
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denied the Trinity

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Unitarians

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3
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can easily be replace by identical parts

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interchangeable parts

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4
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large revival in America

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Second Great Awakening

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5
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came to America because of a potato famine in our country

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Irish

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6
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water compartment that can be opened on both ends to let water in or out

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lock

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7
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patented the swing machine with a foot petal

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Isaac Singer

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8
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improved factory system through the development of interchangeable parts

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Eli Whitney

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9
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specific type of road that charges a fee

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turnpike

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10
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also called Cumberland Rd. because of the city where it starts, although it doesnt go near the Cumberland gap

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National Road

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11
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came for rich farmland and to escape political problems in our land

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Germans

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12
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believe that man is born good but is corrupted by society

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transcendentalist

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13
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left England to build factory machines in America

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Samuel Slater

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14
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led drive for tax supported public schools

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Horace Mann

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15
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time period where machines and factories replaced hand tools

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Industrial Revolution

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16
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built across Kentucky on land bought from the Cherokees

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Wilderness Road

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17
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organized to discuss women’s right and proposed law changes

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Seneca Falls Convention

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18
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opposed slavery and wanted to end it

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abolitionists

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19
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first to successfully test a locomotive on an American railroad

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Peter Cooper

20
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created a better plow with a steel blade so soil would not stick

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John Deere

21
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revivals attracted people through new publicly measures special techniques

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Charles Finney

22
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most famous canal in country

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Erie Canal

23
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worked to improve conditions at facilities for the mentally ill

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Dorothea DIx

24
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led debates at Yale about the truth of the the word of God

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Timothy Dwight

25
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people stayed for weeks and days and heard much preaching and sang songs

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camp meetings

26
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national passage through the Cumberland Mts.

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Cumberland Gap

27
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created a mill town for girls in Massachusetts that provided room and board for workers

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Francis Cabot Lowell

28
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picked cotton in southern fields

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slaves

29
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invention expanded communication by sending signals across wires (telegraph)

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Samuel F. Morse

30
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invented a machine for cutting and harvesting grain

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Cyrus McCormick

31
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helped organize Seneca Falls Convention

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Lucretia Mott

32
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helped organized Seneca Falls Convention + taught both marriage + others the Bible were oppressive to women

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

33
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welcomed American trade in our ports

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Chinese

34
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took mail from Missouri to California

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Pony Express riders

35
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threatened into opening American trade with our company

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Japanese

36
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invented the clipper

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John Griffiths

37
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production of large quantities of products

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mass production

38
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worked in factories at a young age and had little education

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children

39
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worked for better working conditions and better pay

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labor unions

40
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faster than other sailing vessels, although it doesn’t have an engine

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clipper

41
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led the building of wilderness road through Cumberland Gap

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Daniel Boone

42
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shallow-manmade water highway

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canal

43
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traveled to Japan to open trade

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Matthew Perry

44
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once called the Great Warrior Path

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Great Wagon Road

45
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steamboat dramatically reduced the travel time from NYC to Albany

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Robert Fulton

46
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could travel faster than any sailboat because of its engine

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steamboat

47
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a postmaster general under Washington

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Samuel Osgood

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