Chapter 13- Education & Technology

Question 0

McGuffey

Answer 0

Eclectic readers

Question 1

Webster

Answer 1

“Blue-backed speller”

Question 2

Mann

Answer 2

Rapid growth of public schools

Question 3

Free schools

Answer 3

Public schools

Question 4

1821

Answer 4

First public high school

Question 5

University of North Carolina

Answer 5

First state university

Question 6

Wesleyan college

Answer 6

First all women college

Question 7

Oberlin college

Answer 7

First coeducational college

Question 8

Holbrook

Answer 8

Father of Lyceum movement

Question 9

Bennett

Answer 9

Began New York herald

Question 10

Greeley

Answer 10

New York tribune

Question 11

Lycuems

Answer 11

National american Lyceum

Question 12

Normal schools

Answer 12

Professional training of teachers

Question 13

Deere

Answer 13

Developed steel plow

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McCormick

Answer 14

Invented reaper

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Whitney

Answer 15

Invented cotton gin

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Cotton

Answer 16

“king” in south

Question 17

Other crops grown in south

Answer 17

1. Tobacco
2. Sugar
3. Rice
4. Corn
5. Oats
6. Wheat

Question 18

Domestic system

Answer 18

Manufacturing in the home

Question 19

Slater

Answer 19

“Father of american factory system”

Question 20

Lowell

Answer 20

Invented power loom

Question 21

Howe

Answer 21

Invented sewing machine

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Singer

Answer 22

Works with Howe

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Watt

Answer 23

First practical steam engine

Question 24

Evans

Answer 24

Developed high-pressure steam engine

Question 25

Factory system

Answer 25

Took place of domestic

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“Coudary road”

Answer 26

Road formed by logs laid side by side

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Macadam roads

Answer 27

Raised above surrounding terrain to aid drainage

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Fulton

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Built first practical steamboat

Question 29

Erie Canal

Answer 29

Connected Hudson River with lake erie

Question 30

Baltimore & ohio railroad

Answer 30

cooper’s engine made a train run

Question 31

Mohawk & Hudson railroad

Answer 31

Connected Albany & Schenectady

Question 32

Clipper ships

Answer 32

Americas greatest contribution to sailing vessels

Question 33

Morse

Answer 33

Invented telegraph

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Pony express

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Private company that carried mail between missouri and california

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Maury

Answer 35

“Pathfinder of the seas,” helped lay out route for transatlantic cable

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Field

Answer 36

Completed an improved & permanent transatlantic cable

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New classes of people created when industrialization began to increase

Answer 37

Investors & laborers

Question 38

Telegraph

Answer 38

Put pony express out of business

Question 39

Country that provided largest number of immigrants between 1820-1850

Answer 39

Ireland

Question 40

Reasons why Irishman came to america

Answer 40

1. Upset with British rule
2. Potato crop failed
3. Severe famine set in

Question 41

Second largest group of immigrants to settle in america

Answer 41

Germans

Question 42

Reasons why Germans came to america

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1. Economic problems

2. Escape from persecution

Question 43

Why America became alarmed as number of immigrants began to increase

Answer 43

1. Feared newcomers would take their jobs

2. Feared they would pull down standard living