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57 Cards in this Set
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Who invented the steel plow?
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John Deere
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Who traveled with Lewis and Clark?
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Sacagawea
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Who invented a much-improved sewing machine?
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Elias Howe
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Who invented the reaper?
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Cyrus McCormick
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Who worked with the transatlantic cable?
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Cyrus Field
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Who improved the power loom and built textile factories in New England?
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Francis Cabot Lowell
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In what country did the great potato famine occur?
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Ireland
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What system of mail delivery came before the telegraph?
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Pony Express
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Who invented the telegraph?
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Samuel Morse
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What is an entrepreneur?
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one who risks personal loss to develop and market new products or ideas.
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Who was America's greatest science teacher?
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Louis Agassiz
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Who made important improvements on the sewing amchine?
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Issac Singer
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Who wrote the "Star Spangled Banner"?
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Francis Scott Key
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What famous author used his experiences as a steamboat pilot to write books such as "Life on the Mississippi"?
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Mark Twain/ Samuel Clemens
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What was the name for the sleek, record-breaking sailing ships built in America?
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clipper ships
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Who founded the AME?
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Richard Allen
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Who is the "Father of American Missions"?
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Adoniram Judson
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Who started New York City's first Sunday school program?
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Katy Ferguson
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Who improved the treatment of the mentally ill?
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Dorothea Dix
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Who founded New York City's first settlement house?
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Phoebe Palmer
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Who opened Japan to trade?
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Matthew Perry
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Who discovered the Hawaiian isalnds?
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James Cook
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Who was the first baptist missionary to Japan?
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Jonathan Goble
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Who united all of Hawaii but two islands?
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Kamehameha I
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Who is known as the "Father of Western African Missions"?
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Lott Carey
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Who opened Japan to missionaries?
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Townsend Harris
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Who was the leading evangelist of the Second Great Awakening?
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Charles Finney
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What great Mehtodist circuit rider preached the gospel in Kentucky and Tennessee for 20 years?
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Peter Cartwright
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Who pioneered the camp meeting revival?
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James McGready
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What did Transcendentalists worship?
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nature
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What was the first state to outlaw the use of liquor?
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Maine
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What society was organized in 1816 to distribute Bibles to frontier families?
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American Bible Society
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What did the American Temperance Union work to stop?
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the sale and comsumption of alcohol
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What Indian tribe experienced hardship and suffering on the "Trail of Tears"?
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Cherokee
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What was the name of the Socialist Society set up by Robert Owen?
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New Harmony
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What did Horace Mann work to achieve?
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tax-supported schools
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What is William McGuffey best remembered for?
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his reading textbooks
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When is your test?
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Friday, Nov. 5th
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Edgar Allen Poe
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"The Tell-Tale Heart"
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Old Ironsides"
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John Greenleaf Whittier
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"Snowbound"
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"The Song of Hiawatha"
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"The Scarlet Letter"
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Herman Melville
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Moby Dick
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Washington Irving
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"Rip Van Winkle"
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James Fennimore Cooper
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"The Last of the Mohicans"
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Who wrote the Blue-Backed Speller?
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Noah Webster
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Henry David Thoreau wrote..
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Walden
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What was one of the most popular learning techniques in the town schools?
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spelling bee
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T/F Leatherstockings is a good example of one of James Fennimore Cooper's Hudson River Tales
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True
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Who wrote the following songs: "Swanee River" "My Old Kentucky Home" and "Oh! Susanna"?
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Stephen Foster
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What is a cult?
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A counterfeit church group that teaches salvation by works rather than salvation by faith?
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What invented the written language for the Cherokee indians?
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Sequoya
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What was America's greatest contribution to the field of music?
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the spiritual
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What was the name for evangelists who rode regular routes on horseback, conducting church services on the frontier?
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circuit riders
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What was the term for the group of poets who emphasized family values and patriotism in their works?
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Schoolroom Poets
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Name the Methodist leader of the circuit riders
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Francis Asbury
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