US History Ch 11 23-24

What was the most important early American road?

Cotton gin

What new production method did Eli Whitney used to make standardized rifles?

To maintain its lead in manufacturing, Great Britain forbade skilled workers from leaving the country.

What city became the center of Mormonism?

What industry developed in America as a result of the discovery of hard: Western Pennsylvania?

By the mid-1800s, what was America’s most important export?

President of Yale

What state became a model for public education?

Leader of a slave rebellion

Which group practiced polygamy?

Steamboat

Yale remained unaffected by the Second Great Awakening.

What did Prohibition seek to change?

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

All romantics shared a belief in man’s inherent goodness.

First textile mill in America

What was the main reason the South lagged behind the North in manufacturing?

Author of elementary readers

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

Telegraph

Founder of Mormonism

The South felt little need to develop manufacturing because cotton growing was so profitable.

Founder of Salt Lake City

Editor of the Liberator

Former slave who made trips to the south to lead slaves to freedom.

Father of American Methodism

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

What was America’s first major industry?

What step in wheat production did Cyrus McCormick improve?

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

Who became famous for writing short stories and poems about human nature?

Public education reformer

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

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

The Pony Express went broke due to the invention of the telegraph.

What biblical teaching was misunderstood by Baptist minister Miller?

Steel plow

What is the turnpike?

According to William Lloyd Garrison, the treatment of blacks was sometimes little better in the North than in the South.

Which event was heralded by the words “What hath God wrought”?