Ch11 US History BJU

What is a turnpike?

Unitarianism was most popular on the frontier.

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

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

What was America's first major industry?

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

Horace Mann was an orthodox Christian who believed that biblical values had a necessary role in the classroom.

What city became the center of Mormonism?

American education during the first half of the 19th century introduced all of the following except

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

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

Which revival was led primarily by laymen "non ministers"?

Which group practiced polygamy?

Although the cotton gin greatly reduced the number of slaves necessary to clean cotton, it actually increased its demand

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

The national patent law and promise of profits caused inventions to flood the United States.

What step in wheat production did Cyrus McCormick improve?

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

Yale remained unaffected by the Second Great Awakening.

What did prohibition seek to change?

Harvard became a center of Unitarian teaching.

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

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

What biblical teaching was misunderstood by Baptist minister Miller?

What did Eli Whitney introduce to American industry?

The Shakers were an Orthodox denomination.

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

Who or what was most influential in bringing revival to Yale?

Where was the most significant camp meeting revival held?

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

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

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

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

What group became America's largest denomination by the mid-1800s?

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

The most important early American road was

Which of the following transportation methods initially cost the most to build?

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

What state became a model for public education?

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

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