US HIST - Chap. 11

What state became a model for public education?

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

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

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

What is a turnpike?

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

The most important early American road was

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

I was a former slave who made trips to the South to lead slaves to freedom.

I invented the steel plow. Who am I?

What step in cotton was improved by the cotton gin?

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

I was a public education reformer. Who am I?

I was the leader of a slave rebellion. Who am I?

Which group practiced polygamy?

I was the author of elementary readers. Who am I?

I invented the cotton gin. Who am I?

I invented the telegraph. Who am I?

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

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

I invented the steamboat. Who am I?

I stated the first textile mill in America. Who am I?

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

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

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

What biblical teaching was misunderstood by Baptist minister Miller?

Yale remained unaffected by the Second Great Awakening.

What step in wheat production did Cyrus McCormick improve?

What did Prohibition seek to change?

What event was heralded by the words "What hath God wrought"?

What was America's first major industry?

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

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

I was the editor of the Liberator. Who am I?

What city became the center of Mormonism?