Chapter 11 Test Review

The abolitionists gained popularity because they employed a friendly manner and polished speech.

What modern denomination was formed by a split over slavery in 1844?

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

Unitarianism was most popular on the frontier

Congress refused to spend money on roads until the Civil War required it.

Soon after the telegraph was invented, the U.S. recognized its potential.

What biblical teaching was misused by Baptist minister William Miller?

Who began a famous poem with the line "I celebrate myself, and sing myself"?

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

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

Which style of music was least prominent in America during the first half of the 19th century?

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

What early reform movement never achieved its goals?

In 1860 what country was carrying on the most sea trade?

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

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

Most Christians in the South condemned slavery as sin.

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

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

Shakers were so named because they were frequently mistaken for Quakers.

From 1789 to 1861, every major American newspaper avoided reporting scandals and other sensational accounts.

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

What did Prohibition seek to reform?

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

What famous architect helped design the U.S. Capitol?

Almost one million people were converted during the Prayer Meeting Revival.

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

By 1860 America produced seven-eighths of the world's cotton.

What was the first revival to be led primarily by laymen?

What denomination was established specifically to serve black congregations?

The Second Great Awakening resulted in all of the following except

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

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

What was America's most important transportation method in 1860?

What early group of painters turned from European models to America's majestic landscapes?

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

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

Where was the greatest camp revival held?

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

What step in wheat production did McCormick improve?

The most important early American road was

What was America's first major industry?

What state became a model for public education?

The national patent law caused inventions to flood the U.S.

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

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

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

What city grew because of its central location for railroad traffic?

What single crop dominated southern agriculture in the mid-nineteenth century?

The Prayer Meeting Revival helped prepare the nation for the stress of the Civil War.

Harvard became a center of Unitarian teaching.

Yale remained unaffected by the Second Great Awakening.

What was the revival that affected the entire nation in the early 19th century?

In 1858 what was the quickest means of communication between North America and the British Isles?

Railroads in the North and the West never used a standard width of track.

Which of the following was least characteristic of the "New Measures"?

The Methodists' success arose partly from their leaders' willingness to travel great distances to meet people's needs.

Some southern Christians defended slavery as a positive good for the benefit of blacks.

What was America's first economically successful railroad?

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

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

Western camp meeting revivals were often loud and lively, sometimes punctuated by people jumping, jerking and shaking

The literature from the time of Washington to the time of Jackson is usually called the Hudson River school.

The Shakers were an orthodox denomination..

In 1860 what was America's most important export?

One weakness of the "New Measures" of revival was the overemphasis on man's ability in conversion

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

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

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

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

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

What is a turnpike?

What did Eli Whitney introduce to American industry?

Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison condemned the Constitutional "a league with death, and a covenant with hell."

The pony express went broke after fewer than two years of service.

What city became the center of Mormonism?

What is a corduroy road?