History Test 5 Flashcards
America’s First Public High School founded
1821
Erie Canal completed
1825
concerned with passing on to new generations the knowledge and traditions of the past
traditional education
American Spelling Book nickname
Blue-Backed Speller
wrote the Blue-Backed Speller
Noah Webster
a school for professional training of teachers
normal school
the first coeducational college
Oberlin College
who founded the first lyceum
Josiah Holbrook
editor of the Atlantic Monthly
William Dean Howells
allowed publishers to print current news with amazing speed
telegraph
who founded the New York Tribune
Horace Greeley
invented the reaper
Cyrus McCormick
transformed the Southern agriculture in 1793
cotton gin
escaped Great Britain and brought their industrial secrets to the US
Samuel Slater
Father of the American Factory System
Samuel Slater
invented the power loom
Francis Cabot Lowell
first American to develop a high-pressure steam engine
Oliver Evans
called the national road connected Cumberland, Maryland with Wheeling, VA
Cumberland road
were raised above their surrounding terrain to aid in drainage and were constructed of tightly packed layers of crushed rock bound together by fine gravel
macadam roads
who constructed the Erie Canal
DeWitt Clinton
what did the Erie Canal connect
Hudson River to Lake Erie
America’s greatest contribution to the history of sailing vessels
clipper ship
invented morse code
Samuel Morse
texas war for independance
1835-1836
mexican war
1846-1848
texas admitted to the union
1845
california gold rush
1849
mexican cession; treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed
1848
three generals who died during texas war
travis, bowie, crocket
houston and his forces won a decisive victory and practically ended the war at what battle
battle of san jacinto
an expression of a people’s will by direct vote
plebiscite
became the first two white women to journey west of the rockies
narcissa whitman; eliza spalding
the largest wagon train to go west
great migration
a dedicated christian adeventurer from new york and ohio played an important role in exploring the west and in opening it to settlers
jedediah smith
who did the whigs nominate in the 1844 election
clay
who adopted the “fifty-four forty or fight”
polk
under whos control was the army detachment sent to defend the texas border
taylor
sent as a special envoy to mexico
john slidell
sent by water to attack mexican coastal city of veracruz and to press an attack from there to mexico city
winfield scott
taylor won a decisive victory against overwhelming odds
battle of buena vista
who helped the settlers in California with an attack on mexican authority
John C Fremont
a methodist preacher followed the fold rush to california
william taylor
republican party formed
1854
republicans won their first election
1860
compromise of 1850
1850
what was a disadvantage of slavory when it came to immigration
it discouraged it because it reduced the availability of good paying jobs
a fiery new englander who demanded the immediate and unconditional freeing of slaves
garrison
wrote the newspaper the liberator
garrison
composed of moderate abolitionists who unlike garrison were loyal to the constituition
liberty party
a network of escape routes and hiding places by which fugitive slaves could escape
underground railroad
stipulated that in the land gained from mexico neither slavory nor servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory
wilmot proviso
clay proposed this to the senate as a series of compromises
compromise of 1850
webster made his last great speech called what
seventh of march speech
webster called upon his fellow senetors to give their full support to the compromise
seventh of march speech
one of the longest debates in american history was for what bill
compromise of 1850
called for land to be divided into two territories one being free and one to be a slave state
kansas-nebraska act
attacked a proslavery settlement at pottawatomie creek
john brown
when did the republican party come about
1854
declared that slaves were not citizens and couldnt sue in court and slaves were property
dred scott vs sanford
what won enough support from the state of illinoise that douglas was reelected to the US senate
freeport doctrine
published the impending crisis of the south
helper
lincolns running mate
hamlin
southern democrats chose who to run int he election of 1860
breckinridge
made president of the confederacy
jefferson davis
who said “ i have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the instituition of slavery in the state where it exists
lincolns inauguration
