U.S. History - Chapter 11

What was America's first major industry?

Who was the governor that urged the construction of the Erie Canal?

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

The cotton gin greatly reduced the # of slaves needed to clean cotton, it actually increased the demand for slaves.

Who devised the cotton gin?

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

Which of the following is the abolitionist editor of the Liberator?

What was America's first economically successful railroad?

Which of the following was a public education reformer?

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

Who is known as the founder of the Methodists?

What biblical teaching was misused by Baptist minister William Miller?

Which of the following was a former slave who made trips to the South to free slaves?

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

Who perfected the steel plow?

Who constructed the first textile mill in America?

Which of the following could be described as an 'eloquent former slave'?

Who was responsible for creating the reaping machine?

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

Which of the following was a heroic missionary to Burma?

In 1860 what was America's most important export?

Who was the founder of Salt Lake City, the Mormon "capital"?

Where was the greatest camp meeting revival held?

Which of the following was a leader of a slave rebellion?

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

Who is known as the "father of American Methodism"?

What famous architect helped to design the United States Capitol?

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

Who was the president of Yale who encouraged revival?

What did Prohibition seek to reform?

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

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

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

Which of the following was an author of elementary readers?

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

What was the fastest type of sailing ship ever built?

Who was the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints?

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

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

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

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

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

Samuel Morris invented the telegraph.

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

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

Who was the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church?

Who was the inventor of the steamboat?

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

Who was the founder of modern revival methods?

Unitarianism was most popular on the Frontier.

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

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