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An invention created by Cyrus McCormick, a pro-slavery southern Democrat, which ironically helped the North win the Civil War. Kept northern agricultural production high.
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McCormick reaper
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A system in which Europeans in 1851 referred to manufacture by interchangeable parts.
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"American System of Manufacturing"
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Center of railroad financing shifted here in the 1850s.
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New York Stock Exchange
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Followers of this scientific fad believed that the shape of a person's skull was an indicator of their character.
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phrenology
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Started a newspaper as a young man, called the Herald of Freedom. As a small town grocer, he cheated people he suspected were cheating him. He also played as the 169 year old slave of George Washington. Started the American Museum, where he faked exhibits.
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P.T. Barnum
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Flowering of literature. Leading figures were James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, etc.
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American Renaissance
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The author of "The Pathfinder" and "The Last of the Mohicans".
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James Fenimore Cooper
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In his most famous work, "The American Scholar," he urged Americans to seek inspiration in nature.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In "Civil Disobedience" he justified the right of a citizen to disobey unjust laws.
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Henry David Thoreau
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Author of "The Raven"
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Who invented the telegraph?
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Samuel F. Morse
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A focus on revealing the longings of one's soul through works of literature.
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Romanticism
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Wrote several lines of poetry in Leaves of Grass.
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Walt Whitman
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Sought to develop a national identity in art. Promoted nature.
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Hudson River school
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Painted as many Native Americans as possible.
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George Catlin
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