FPK - Early Republic and Expansion - 1785-1865

Question 1

Ordinance of 1785 established a system of rectangular survey coordinates; this opened the door to settlement of the American West.

Answer 1

1785

Question 2

First US Census

Washington D.C. – First U.S. Grand Plan created by Pierre Charles L’Enfant, A. Ellicott, Benjamin Banneker

Answer 2

1790

Question 3

Louisiana Purchase (800,000 square miles) – doubles nation’s size

Answer 3

1803

Question 4

Governor & Judges Plan for Detroit – Vast radial plan; second city plan adopted by Congress created by Woodward/Hull

Answer 4

1807

Question 5

Cumberland Road is the first major road in the US constructed with federal funds (Cumberland, MY to Columbus, OH)

Answer 5

1811

Question 6

Erie Canal construction begun

Answer 6

1817

Question 7

Erie Canal completed and operational

Answer 7

1825

Question 8

Small grid plan laid out at site of Chicago

Answer 8

1830

Question 9

NY tenements (for waves of European immigrants)

Answer 9

1830’s -1840’s:

Question 10

Salt Lake City “City of Zion” plan by Brigham Young; Joseph Smith

Answer 10

1848

Question 11

Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux – Central Park design

Answer 11

1851

Question 12

First “model tenement” built in Manhattan

Answer 12

1855

Question 13

Central Park, NYC – First major purchase of parkland (Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.)

Answer 13

1856

Question 14

Central Park “Greensward” Plan – First major English Garden in U.S. (Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., Calvert Vaux)

Answer 14

1857

Question 15

American Civil War begins.

Answer 15

1861

Question 16

Homestead Act of 1862 – accelerated the settlement of the western territory by granting adult heads of families 160 acres of surveyed public land for a minimal filing fee and 5 years of continuous residence on that land

Morrill Act – Congress authorizes land grants from the Public Domain to the states. Proceeds from the sale were to be used to found colleges offering instruction in agriculture, engineering, and other practical arts (A&M colleges).

Answer 16

1862

Question 17

New York Council of Hygiene of the Citizens Association mounts a campaign to raise housing and sanitary standards

Answer 17

1864

Question 18

American Civil War ends

Answer 18

1865