U.S. History Ch. 11

Question 1

Unitarianism was the most popular on the frontier

Accepted Answer

False

Question 2

Erie Canal

Accepted Answer

D. Clinton

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

Methodists

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

Grace of God

Question 5

Founder of Salt Lake City, the Mormon "capital."

Accepted Answer

Brigham Young

Question 6

Former slave who made trips to the south to free slaves

Accepted Answer

Harriet Tubman

Question 7

Father of American Methodism

Accepted Answer

Francis Asbury

Question 8

Founder of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Accepted Answer

Joseph Smith

Question 9

In 1869 what was America's most important export?

Accepted Answer

Cotton

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

Walt Whitman

Question 11

What did prohibition seek to reform?

Accepted Answer

Alcohol abuse

Question 12

Abolitionist Editor of the Liberator

Accepted Answer

W. Lloyd Garrison

Question 13

What famous architect helped to design the US capitol?

Accepted Answer

Charles Bullfinch

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

Deism

Question 15

What was the revival that affected the entire nation in the early 18th century?

Accepted Answer

Second Great Awakening

Question 16

What was America's first economically successful railroad?

Accepted Answer

Baltimore & Ohio

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

Prayer Meeting Revival

Question 18

All romanticists shared a belief in man's inherent goodness

Accepted Answer

False

Question 19

The cotton gin greatly reduced the # of slaves necessary to clean cotton, it inc. slave demand

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

Insane Asylum Reformer

Accepted Answer

Dorthea Dix

Question 21

President of Yale who encouraged revival

Accepted Answer

Timothy Dwight

Question 22

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

Accepted Answer

Reliance on cotton exports for income

Question 23

Who became famous for writing short stories and poems that explored the dark side?

Accepted Answer

Edgar Allan Poe

Question 24

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

Accepted Answer

Interchangeable Parts

Question 25

The prayer meeting revival was organized according to the New Measures

Accepted Answer

False

Question 26

What do we call a Methodist minister who traveled on horseback to small frontier settlements?

Accepted Answer

Circuit Rider

Question 27

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

Accepted Answer

Believed they could solve society's problems

Question 28

Founder of modern revival methods

Accepted Answer

Charles Finney

Question 29

Steamboat

Accepted Answer

R. Fulton

Question 30

Founder of the Methodists

Accepted Answer

John Wesley

Question 31

Leader of the slave rebellion

Accepted Answer

Nat Turner

Question 32

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

Accepted Answer

Mormons

Question 33

What biblical teaching was misused by Baptist minister William Miller?

Accepted Answer

Second Coming of Christ

Question 34

Cotton Gin

Accepted Answer

E. Whitney

Question 35

NY's Erie Canal proved to be a great investment

Accepted Answer

True

Question 36

New Harmony Utopia

Accepted Answer

Robert Owen

Question 37

Telegraph

Accepted Answer

S. Morse

Question 38

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

Accepted Answer

Women's Suffrage

Question 39

What was America's first major industry?

Accepted Answer

Textiles

Question 40

What will the government grant an inventor to protect his rights to an invention?

Accepted Answer

Patent

Question 41

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

Accepted Answer

True

Question 42

Author of Elementary Readers

Accepted Answer

William McGuffey

Question 43

What was the fastest type of sailing ship ever built?

Accepted Answer

Clipper

Question 44

First textile mill in America

Accepted Answer

S. Slater

Question 45

Heroic missionary to Burma

Accepted Answer

Adoniram Judson

Question 46

Founder of the African Methodist Episcopal church

Accepted Answer

Richard Allen

Question 47

Public Education reformer

Accepted Answer

Horace Mann

Question 48

Reaping Machine

Accepted Answer

C. McCormick

Question 49

Where was the greatest camp meeting revival held?

Accepted Answer

Cane Ridge

Question 50

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

Accepted Answer

Federalist Style

Question 51

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

Accepted Answer

The first intercity telegraph message

Question 52

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

Accepted Answer

Roads were the only way to reach landlocked areas

Question 53

Steel Plow

Accepted Answer

J. Deere

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