History

What step in cotton production was improved by the cotton gin?

In 1860 what country was carrying on the most sea trade?

Who or what was most influential in bringing revival to Yale?

The ___ Trail was the most important trail in the settlement of the for West.

In 1860 what was America's most important export?

What did Ell Whitney introduce to American industry?

Which group was persecuted because the men took more than one wife?

What early type of painting tried to copy the balanced, restrained styles of Europe?

Which of the following events came last?

What dispute was the immediate cause of the Mexican War?

What young sect became America's largest denomination by 1840?

What was America's first economically successful railroad?

What biblical teaching was misused by Baptist minister William Miller?

What single cash crop dominated southern agriculture in the mid-nineteenth century?

For which of the following military leaders was the Mexican War not a "boot camp" for the Civil War?

John Tyler was called "His Accidency" because he

What president led America during the Mexican War?

Which of the following was not accomplished by James Polk?

The wrong motive that lay behind public education in America was that educators

What was the revival that affected the entire nation in the early nineteenth century?

What state became a model for public education?

What transportation method helped bring an end to the "canal craze"?

What early group of painters turned from European models to America's majestic landscapes?

What industry developed in America as a result of the discovery of hard coal in western Pennsylvania?

Where was the greatest camp meeting revival held?

What is a turnpike?

Which of the following groups was started primarily by a famous American writer?

The ___ Trail was a trade route between Mexico and the U.S.

What was the main problem of water transportation that the steamboat solved?

What was America's most important transportation method in 1860?

Who became famous for writing short stories and poems that explore the dark side of human nature?

The Second Great Awakening resulted in all the following except

The most important early American road was

What latitude became the border between the Oregon Territory and Canada?

Why did Californians revolt against their American conquerors during the Mexican War?

In 1858 what was the quickest means of communication between North America and the British Isles?

Which state was the "Bear Flag Republic"?

Why were roads so common in early America when boat travel was much cheaper?

Who may have lost a presidential election because he hedged his position on the annexation of Texas?

What did Prohibition seek to reform?

All of the following contributed to the Mexican War except

The Seneca Falls Convention passed resolutions supporting what important area of reform?

Who was perhaps the hardest working president in our nation's history?

What was the first revival to be led primarily by laymen?

What city became the center of Mormonism?

What city grew because of its central location for railroad traffic?

What was the main reason the South fell behind the North in developing industry?

What step in wheat production did McCormick improve?

What was America's first major industry?