US History Chapter 11 (BJU5)

Question 1

telegraph

Accepted Answer

Samuel F. B. Morse

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 3

author of elementary readers

Accepted Answer

William McGuffey

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 5

first textile mill in America

Accepted Answer

Samuel Slater

Question 6

What famous canal connected the Great Lakes and Albany, New York?

Accepted Answer

Erie Canal

Question 7

What city became the center of Mormonism?

Accepted Answer

Salt Lake City

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 9

steel plow

Accepted Answer

John Deere

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

iron

Question 11

What state became a model for public education?

Accepted Answer

Massachusetts

Question 12

editor of the "Liberator"

Accepted Answer

William Lloyd Garrison

Question 13

founder of Salt Lake City

Accepted Answer

Brigham Young

Question 14

Which group practiced polygamy?

Accepted Answer

Mormons

Question 15

The most important American road was

Accepted Answer

the National Road

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

Edgar Allan Poe

Question 17

What term describes western revival services that lasted several days and were often held outdoors?

Accepted Answer

camp meetings

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

cleaning

Question 19

What step in wheat production did Cyrus McCormick improve?

Accepted Answer

harvesting

Question 20

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

Accepted Answer

women's suffrage

Question 21

What was America&#x27;s firs major industry?

Accepted Answer

textiles

Question 22

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

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 23

cotton gin

Accepted Answer

Eli Whitney

Question 24

Some Americans saw God as Creator but thought He was rarely involved in affairs of men. What was this "faith" called?

Accepted Answer

deism

Question 25

What can the government grant an inventer to protect his rights to an invention?

Accepted Answer

patent

Question 26

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

Accepted Answer

Harriet Tubman

Question 27

Yale remained unaffected by the Second Great Awakening.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 28

Father of American Methodism

Accepted Answer

Francis Asbury

Question 29

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

Accepted Answer

transcendentalists

Question 30

What did Prohibition seek to change?

Accepted Answer

alcohol use

Question 31

founder of Mormonism

Accepted Answer

Joseph Smith

Question 32

What popular ballad writer wrote such American favorites as "Camptown Races" and "Oh, Susanna"?

Accepted Answer

Stephen Foster

Question 33

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

Accepted Answer

roads were the only way to reach landlocked areas

Question 34

What term describes a minister who traveled on horseback to the small frontier settlements in his region?

Accepted Answer

circuit rider

Question 35

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

Accepted Answer

railroads

Question 36

public education reformer

Accepted Answer

Horace Mann

Question 37

What is a turnpike?

Accepted Answer

a road paid for with tolls

Question 38

leader of a slave rebellion

Accepted Answer

Nat Turner

Question 39

What biblical teaching was misunderstood by Baptist minister Miller?

Accepted Answer

Second Coming of Christ

Question 40

What event led was heralded by the words "What hath Grod wrought"?

Accepted Answer

first intercity telegraph message

Question 41

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

Accepted Answer

interchangable parts

Question 42

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

Accepted Answer

cotton

Question 43

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

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 44

What term best describes a model community, such as New Harmony, Indiana?

Accepted Answer

utopian

Question 45

steamboat

Accepted Answer

Robert Fulton

Question 46

president of Yale

Accepted Answer

Timothy Dwight

Question 47

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

Accepted Answer

upstream travel

US History Chapter 11 (BJU5)

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US History Chapter 11 (BJU5)

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