Chapter 11 Test Flashcards
The series of trails that the Indians and travelers used
Great Wagon Road
The first highway federally funded in 1806
National Road
Sharp sticks guarding roads
Turnpikes
The young engineer that invented a steamboat
Robert Fulton
The canal that connected Lake Erie with Albany, New York
Erie Canal
The first major trial of a railroad was conducted by:
Peter Cooper
The function of the Postal Service where riders carried mail on horseback
Pony Express
The inventor of the telegraph
Samuel Morse
The system that collected many workers in one place, where they turned out many similar items in one day
Factory System
The man that invented interchangeable parts
Eli Whitney
Assembly of a product from identical pieces that are made with molds
Interchangeable Parts
The English mechanic that saw one of the American advertisements and moved to America to build machines from England
Samuel Slater
The man that organized a mill town for girls in Massachusetts
Francis Lowell
The labor group that tried to help America achieve goals like free public education, ending imprisonment for failure to pay debts, establishing a ten-hour workday, and ending child labor
Labor Union
The inventor of the steel plow
John Deere
The inventor of a reaper, a machine for cutting and harvesting grain
Cryus McCormick
A machine used to separate the seeds from cotton
Cotton Gin
The first American captain to circumnavigate the earth
Captain Robert Gray
The man that took several warships to Japan and tried to secure a trade treaty by threatening the Japanese
Commodore Matthew Perry
The Great Showman that ran a traveling circus
P. T. Barnum
A persuasive preacher and writer. Also a Unitarian
William Channing
The religion that denies the Trinity
Unitarianism
The religion that placed a great emphasis on emotion and intuition
Romanticism
Two of the most popular transcendentalists
Henry Thoreau & Ralph Emerson
