U.S. History Chapter 11 Test

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

What term describes a Methodist minister who traveled on horseback?

first textile mill in America

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

public education reformer

Which of the following was least characteristic of the “New Measures”?

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

Dorothea Dix

New York’s Erie Canal proved to be a great investment.

What biblical teaching was misused by Baptist minister William Miller?

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

What was the fastest type of sailing ship ever built?

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

author of elementary readers

cotton gin

founder of modern revival methods

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

Unitarianism was most popular on the frontier.

One weakness of the “New Measures” of revival was the overemphasis on man’s ability in conversion.

The Prayer Meeting Revival was organized according to the “New Measures.”

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

Erie Canal

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

Where was the greatest camp meeting revival held?

Father of American Methodism

founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

What famous architect helped design U.S. Capitol?

What can the government grant an inventor to an invention?

eloquent former slave

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

founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church

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

telegraph

Where was the greatest camp meeting revival held?

What was the first revival to be led primarily by lay

What was America’s first major industry?

leader of a slave rebellion

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

steel plow

founder of Salt Lake City, the Mormon “capital”

What was America’s first economically successful railroad?

What religion was popular among Patriots, such as Thomas Paine?

former slave who made trips to the South to lead slaves to freedom

steamboat