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best remembered for his Blue-Backed Speller

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Webster

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wrote the first AMerican dictionary

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Webster

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the most widely used series of schoolbooks in America

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McGuffey’s Readers

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wrote most widely used schoolbooks in America

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Mcguffey

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written by Mcguffey and taught Christian morals and school subjects

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Eclectic Readers

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promoted the idea of public schools (mainly in Massachusetts)

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Horace Mann

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name for school for professional training pf teachers

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normal school

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helped found the first normal school

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Mann

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because they didn’t have to pay, people called public schools

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free schools

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type of teaching that focuses on passing on to new generations the body of knowledge and teh great traditions of the past

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traditional education

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year and place of America’s first public high school

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Boston 1821

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chartered the first state university

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Georgia

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first state university to began to operate

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University of North Carolina

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the first coeducational college

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Oberlin College in Ohio

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first women-only college

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Wesleyan College in Georgia

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teacher and itinerant lecturer that pioneered the lyceum movement in the States

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Holbrook

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owner of New York Herald

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Bennett

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owner of New York Tribune

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Greeley

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inventor of steel plow

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John Deere

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invented reaper

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McCormick

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invented cotton gin

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Eli Whitney

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the “king” crop in the South

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cotton

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other important crops in the South

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tobacco (world’s leading producer)
sugar cane
rice
hemp
corn
oats
wheat

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manufacturing in the home

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domestic system

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Father of the American Factory System

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Samuel Slater

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made sewing machine common household item

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Singer

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invented power loom

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Lowell

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invented a much-improved sewing machine

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Howe

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invented the first PRACTICAL steam engine

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Watt

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first American to develop a HIGH-PRESSURE steam engine

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Oliver Evans

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roads in which logs were laid side by side

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corduroy road

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one of the earliest corduroy roads that connected Lancaster, pennsylvania, and Philadelphia

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Lancaster Turnpike

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connected Cumberland, ML, to Wheeling, VA, and eventually all the way to IL

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Cumberland (National) Road

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british engineer who engineered roads that were raised above their surrounding terrain in order to aid drainage

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McAdam (roads are called macadam roads)

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built the first PRACTICAL steamboat

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Fulton

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Fulton’s steamboat

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Clermont

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began the canal era

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completion of the Erie Canal

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year of the completion of the Erie Canal

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1825

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much of the credit for the construction of the Erie Canal goes to

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DeWitt Clinton

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the name Clinton’s enemies gave the Erie Canal project

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Clinton’s Ditch

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the Erie Canal connected the

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Hudson River to Lake Erie

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the railroad on which Peter Cooper’s engine had its trial run

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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

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name for Cooper’s engine

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Tom Thumb

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railroad that connected Albany and Schenectady

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Mohawk ad Hudson Railroad

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boasted the longest railroad in the world at the time

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South Carolina

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AMerica’s greatest contribution to the history of sailing vessels was

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clipper ship

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two clipper ships that traveled from the East Coast to California in 89 days

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Andrew Jackson
Flying Cloud

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began building an electrical instrument by which a combination of dots and dashes could be transmitted

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Samuel Morse

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American naval officer and oceanographer that studied the ocean to help plot out a route for the transatlantic cable

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Mattew Maury

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laid the transatlantic cable

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Cyrus Field

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two important classes of people that emerged

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investors
laborers

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composed of those who invested in industry

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investors

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money or property

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capital

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owned mutually by a number of investors who buy stock ; formed to generate necessary capital

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corporations

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profits that are divided among the investors in proportion to the number of shares of stock each investor owns

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dividends

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group very important for manufacturing

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laborers

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the largest number of immigrants between 1820 and 1850 were from

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Ireland (potato famine, British rule)

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the second largest group of immigrants to come to America

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Germans (economic problems, revolutions )

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