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US History Chapter 11
Telegraph...?
What did Prohibition seek to change?
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What did Prohibition seek to change?
education
Slavery
insane asylums
alcohol use
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Telegraph...?
Miguel Telemundo
Samuel F. B. Morse
Nat Turner
Alexander Graham Bell
3
By mid 1800s, what was America's most important export?
Wheat
Iron
Cotton
Textiles
4
Essay: Why did slavery fail to die out in America as the Founding Fathers had hoped?
Because the economic and industrial enviornment in the country changed
...Which increased demand for cotton and increased demand for slaves
cotton industry in the South was increased by Eli Whitney's cotton gin...
5
What step in cotton production was improved by the cotton gin?
Harvesting
Cleaning
Spinning
Weaving
6
Why were roads so common in early America when boat travel was much cheaper?
Roads were the only way to reach landlocked areas
Americans had too few merchant ships
Travel by roads was faster than travel by ship
Travel by roads was safer than travel by ship
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To maintain its lead in manufacturing, Great Britain forbade skilled workers from leaving the country
False
True
8
Editor of the
Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
Harriet Tubman
Nat Turner
Robert Owen
9
What Biblical teaching was misunderstood by Baptist minister William Miller
Trinity
the grace of God
Second Coming of Christ
the Judgment of God
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What state became a model for public education?
Arkansas
Massachusetts
Maine
Wyoming
11
Leader of a slave rebellion
Nat Turner
Hattie Carrol
Cyrus McCormick
Rosa Parks
12
The Seneca Falls Convention passed resolutions supporting what important area of reform?
Prohibition
Women's suffrage
Public education
National prayer
13
According to William Lloyd Garrison, the treatment of blacks was sometimes little better in the North than in the South
True
False
14
What industry developed in America as a result of the discovery of hard coal in western Pennsylvania?
Textiles
Vulcanized rubber
Clipper ships
Iron
15
President of Yale
Timothy Dwight
Dwight Timothy
Dwide Schroode
Dwight Schroote
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Belief that God is Creator but that he was rarely involved in the affairs of men
Agnostic
Atheism
Deism
17
Which of the following groups was started primarily by a famous American writer
Millerites
Shakers
Mormons
Transcendentalists
18
First textile mill in America
Samuel Slater
Samuel F. B. Morse
Robert Fulton
Robert Owen
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What step in wheat production did Cyrus McCormick improve?
Planting
Winnowing
Harvesting
Crushing
20
Yale remained unaffected by the Second Great Awakening
True
False
21
Steamboat
Samuel Slater
Fredrick Douglass
Horace Mann
Robert Fulton
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Cotton Gin
Jedidiah Whitney
Eli Whitney
Donald Whitney
Whitney Houston
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All romantics shared a belief in man's inherent goodness
True
False
24
Essay: Name 2 leading abolitionists and describe their work
William Lloyd Garrison... look in notes
Fredrick Douglass.. look in notes
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Essay: Why was early industry centered in the North rather than the South?
Coal and iron resources were in the North
North had better developed means of transporting goods- canals, railroads
South focused on producing agricultural products such as cotton
South became a consumer of goods made in the North rather than a producer
26
What transportation method helped bring an end to teh "Canal craze"?
Clipper ships
The Pony Express
Railroads
Steamships
27
What group practiced polygamy?
Mormons
Transcendentalists
Millerites
Shakers
28
What famous canal connected the Great Lakes and Albany, New York?
Albany Canal
Michigan Canal
New York Canal
Erie Canal
29
Steel Plow
Robert Owen
Eli Whitney
John Deere
Horace Mann
30
The South felt little need to develop manufacturing because cotton growing was so profitable
False
True
31
The Pony Express went broke due to the invention of the telegraph
True
False
32
Former slave who made trips to the South to lead slaves to freedom
Rosa Parks
Hattie Carrol
Nat Turner
Harriet Tubman
33
What city became the center of Mormonism?
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Salt Lake City
Phoenix
34
Founder of Mormonism
Charles Finney
Joseph Smith
Brigham Young
Donovan Mitchell
35
What event was heralded by the words "What hath God wrought?"
First intercity telegraph message
Succesful thirteen mile trip of the Tom Thumb
First voyage of McKay's Lightning
Opening of the Erie Canal
36
Father of American Methodism
Joseph Compton
Charles Wesley
John Wesley
Francis Asbury
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Public education reformer
Horace Mann
Nat Turner
Cyrus McCormick
William McGuffey
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Founder of Salt Lake City
Rudy Gobert
Mitt Romney
Brigham Young
Joseph Smith
39
Who became famous for writing short stories and poems that explore the dark side of human nature?
Lou Costello
Walt Whitman
Edgar Allen Poe
Hames Fenimore Cooper
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What new production method di Eli Whitney use to make standardized rifles?
Interchangeable parts
Something else
Cotton gin
