Chapter 11 - Changing American Life Flashcards
Who cut the Wilderness Road through Kentucky?
Daniel Boone
Who conducted the first major trial of a railroad?
Peter Cooper
Who discovered the Cumberland Gap?
Thomas Walker
Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
Who built the Clermont, making steamboat travel popular?
Robert Fulton
True or False? The National Road was the first federally funded highway.
True
True or False? The most famous canal, the Hudson Canal, connected Lake Erie with Albany, New York, on the Hudson River.
False
True or False? The greatest problem for canals was competition from the new railroads.
True
A(n) _________________ is a shallow, manmade water highway that connects two bodies of water.
canal
The __________________, another innovation in communication, replaced the pony express.
telegraph
Who put a steel blade on the plow?
John Deere
Who invented the sewing machine?
Elias Howe
Who organized a mill town for girls in Massachusetts?
Francis Cabot Lowell
What was an English mechanic who made factory machinery in Rhode Island?
Samuel Slater
Who created interchangeable factory parts and the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
True or False? Charles Finney was the most famous revivalist of the Second Great Awakening.
True
True or False? Romanticism placed a great emphasis on emotion and intuition.
True
True or False? Commodore Perry took several warships to force a trade treaty with the Chinese.
False
The ____________________ system collected many workers in one place, where they turned out many similar items in one day.
factory
The ____________________ was a new type of sailing vessel designed for increased speeds.
clipper
Who was Asahel Nettleton?
A revivalist
Who was Francis Cabot Lowell?
An industrialist
Who was Horace Mann?
He liked reform movements.
Who was Timothy Dwight?
A revivalist
Who was Ralph Waldo Emerson?
A transcendentalist
Who was William Ellery Channing
A Unitarianist
True or False? Large revival gatherings in western areas such as Kentucky and Tennessee were called camp meetings.
True
True or False? Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were famous female abolitionist who organized the Seneca Falls Convention for women’s rights.
True
True or False? Realism was a movement in literature that placed a great emphasis on emotion.
False
True or False? During this period, most immigrants came to America from Ireland and France.
False
True or False? Workers formed labor unions to promote their goals for labor reforms.
True
True or False? Americans expanded their sea trade to include China, Japan, and Sumatra.
True
True or False? The Second Great Awakening was a partial result of changes occurring in American colleges.
True
True or False? Turnpikes were a very profitable business that private companies maintained for years.
False
True or False? Industrial growth in the early 1800s occurred extensively in the South.
False
True or False? American ships that traded with Asia also helped the United States lay claim to the Pacific coast of North America.
True
True or False? A major function of the early telegraph network was to keep canal traffic coordinated.
False
Who ultimately maintained the roads and turnpikes?
The states
Why were people so willing to work in the factories even though the working conditions were not the best?
They couldn’t farm in the north because the soil was so bad.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
