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24 Cards in this Set
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The subject of "science" became important in the United States because:
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the influence of the enlightenment
a desire by some to make the Us one of the "learned nations" of the western world |
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Which city was both the temporary U.S.Capitol and the center of intellectual life in 1790?
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philadelphia
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Which disease caused New York to rise as a commercial center by the early 1800s.
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yellow fever
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Charles Wilson Peale opened a museum in 1786 that featured:
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curiosities of nature
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Peales museum advertised in a way that was meant to attract which group
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the middle class
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The "Mammoth Craze" was started by the discovery of what item in New York?
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dinosaur bone fossils
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Jefferson hoped Lewis and Clark would find the Northwest Passage but also:
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wonders comparable to the ancient ruins of Europe
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Elisha Kent Kane advocated using the techniques of Arctic people for survival. why did some resist his suggestions?
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They were "heathen" practices
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The rise of an industrial economy affected where work was done. It shifted the economy from?
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from "the wharf to the waterfalls"
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The establishment of factory-based work imposed what new routines on working people?
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A system based on the clock and on specialized tasks
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Sam Patch was a man who did what for money?
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Jumped from high places
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The "Market Revolution" included which of the following develpments in the U.S. economy
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New forms of transportation (canals, railroads, steamboats)
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The market revolution caused wealth to be distributed more unevenly than in the past. It also revealed what about the American economy?
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social mobility was actually limited
that boom_and-bust cycles were frequent |
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The "nullification crisis" was the belief by states that they could:
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Leave the federal Union
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Which president campaigned as a "man of the people" despite being a wealthy slave owner?
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andrew jackson
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The Whig Party appealed mainly to which type of voter?
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businessmen and planters
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The American Temperance Society was an example of one of many groups who promoted:
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Abstinence from alcohol
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"Aboltiionism" was a movement dedicated to eliminating what?
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the consumption of alcohol
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The "Second Great Awakening" refers to what sort of activity
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labor union rallies
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Why were factories located by water falls
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water used for power
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P.T. Barnum is known as an entrepreneur but he is also known as the creator of what?
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public relations
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The "figee mermaid" was and exhibit that was made from what two animals?
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a monkey and a fish
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How did "human curiosities" most commonly end up with traveling shows as "exhibits"?
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sold by their parents
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The textile mills in the north caused what to become a major crop in the south by 1840?
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cotton
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