Chapter 13 Flashcards
best remembered for his Blue-Backed Speller
Webster
wrote the first AMerican dictionary
Webster
the most widely used series of schoolbooks in America
McGuffey’s Readers
wrote most widely used schoolbooks in America
Mcguffey
written by Mcguffey and taught Christian morals and school subjects
Eclectic Readers
promoted the idea of public schools (mainly in Massachusetts)
Horace Mann
name for school for professional training pf teachers
normal school
helped found the first normal school
Mann
because they didn’t have to pay, people called public schools
free schools
type of teaching that focuses on passing on to new generations the body of knowledge and teh great traditions of the past
traditional education
year and place of America’s first public high school
Boston 1821
chartered the first state university
Georgia
first state university to began to operate
University of North Carolina
the first coeducational college
Oberlin College in Ohio
first women-only college
Wesleyan College in Georgia
teacher and itinerant lecturer that pioneered the lyceum movement in the States
Holbrook
owner of New York Herald
Bennett
owner of New York Tribune
Greeley
inventor of steel plow
John Deere
invented reaper
McCormick
invented cotton gin
Eli Whitney
the “king” crop in the South
cotton
other important crops in the South
tobacco (world’s leading producer)
sugar cane
rice
hemp
corn
oats
wheat
manufacturing in the home
domestic system
Father of the American Factory System
Samuel Slater
made sewing machine common household item
Singer
invented power loom
Lowell
invented a much-improved sewing machine
Howe
invented the first PRACTICAL steam engine
Watt
first American to develop a HIGH-PRESSURE steam engine
Oliver Evans
roads in which logs were laid side by side
corduroy road
one of the earliest corduroy roads that connected Lancaster, pennsylvania, and Philadelphia
Lancaster Turnpike
connected Cumberland, ML, to Wheeling, VA, and eventually all the way to IL
Cumberland (National) Road
british engineer who engineered roads that were raised above their surrounding terrain in order to aid drainage
McAdam (roads are called macadam roads)
built the first PRACTICAL steamboat
Fulton
Fulton’s steamboat
Clermont
began the canal era
completion of the Erie Canal
year of the completion of the Erie Canal
1825
much of the credit for the construction of the Erie Canal goes to
DeWitt Clinton
the name Clinton’s enemies gave the Erie Canal project
Clinton’s Ditch
the Erie Canal connected the
Hudson River to Lake Erie
the railroad on which Peter Cooper’s engine had its trial run
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
name for Cooper’s engine
Tom Thumb
railroad that connected Albany and Schenectady
Mohawk ad Hudson Railroad
boasted the longest railroad in the world at the time
South Carolina
AMerica’s greatest contribution to the history of sailing vessels was
clipper ship
two clipper ships that traveled from the East Coast to California in 89 days
Andrew Jackson
Flying Cloud
began building an electrical instrument by which a combination of dots and dashes could be transmitted
Samuel Morse
American naval officer and oceanographer that studied the ocean to help plot out a route for the transatlantic cable
Mattew Maury
laid the transatlantic cable
Cyrus Field
two important classes of people that emerged
investors
laborers
composed of those who invested in industry
investors
money or property
capital
owned mutually by a number of investors who buy stock ; formed to generate necessary capital
corporations
profits that are divided among the investors in proportion to the number of shares of stock each investor owns
dividends
group very important for manufacturing
laborers
the largest number of immigrants between 1820 and 1850 were from
Ireland (potato famine, British rule)
the second largest group of immigrants to come to America
Germans (economic problems, revolutions )
