History Test 5 Flashcards by Maleea McKenzie

America’s First Public High School founded

1821

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Erie Canal completed

1825

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concerned with passing on to new generations the knowledge and traditions of the past

traditional education

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American Spelling Book nickname

Blue-Backed Speller

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wrote the Blue-Backed Speller

Noah Webster

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a school for professional training of teachers

normal school

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the first coeducational college

Oberlin College

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who founded the first lyceum

Josiah Holbrook

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editor of the Atlantic Monthly

William Dean Howells

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allowed publishers to print current news with amazing speed

telegraph

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who founded the New York Tribune

Horace Greeley

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invented the reaper

Cyrus McCormick

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transformed the Southern agriculture in 1793

cotton gin

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escaped Great Britain and brought their industrial secrets to the US

Samuel Slater

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Father of the American Factory System

Samuel Slater

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invented the power loom

Francis Cabot Lowell

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first American to develop a high-pressure steam engine

Oliver Evans

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called the national road connected Cumberland, Maryland with Wheeling, VA

Cumberland road

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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

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who constructed the Erie Canal

DeWitt Clinton

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what did the Erie Canal connect

Hudson River to Lake Erie

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America’s greatest contribution to the history of sailing vessels

clipper ship

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invented morse code

Samuel Morse

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texas war for independance

1835-1836

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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