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The first great American novelist. Wrote The Last of the Mohicans and The Deerslayer. He evoked the ideal of the independent individual with a natural inner goodness.
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James Fenimore Cooper
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Perhaps the greatest American writer of his era. Wrote Moby Dick in 1851.
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Herman Melville
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Most distinguished Southern novelist of the time. His work expressed a broad nationalism that transcended his regional background.
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William Gilmore Simms
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perfected interchangeable parts
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Eli Whitney
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founder of the Mormons
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Joseph Smith
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founder of The Oneida Perfectionists
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John H. Noyes
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predicted an exact millennial day
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William Miller
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pioneered human treatment of the insane
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Dorothea Dix
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leader of a slave revolt
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Nat Turner
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19th century painter of material things
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John Krimmel
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leader of an American granite industry
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Solomon Willard
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founded an ice industry in America
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Frederick Tudor
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Blacksmith and house designer
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Emerson Bixby
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_____ embraced a theory of the individual that rested on a distinction between what they called "reason" and "understanding."
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Transcendentalists
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wrote that the quest for self-fulfillment, individuals should work for a communion with the natural world.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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said each individual should work for self-realization by resisting pressures to conform to society's expectations and responding instead to his or her own instincts. Wrote "Walden". Believed in 'Civil Disobedience'.
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Henry David Thoreau
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founded by Mother Ann Lee, _____ redefined tradiotional gender roles central to their society. Most distinctive feature was its commitment to complete celibacy. They tried to create a society set apart from the chaos and disorder they believed had come to characterize American life.
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The Shakers
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minister and committed reformer who won many of his followers with his prescriptions for eating fruits, vegetables, and bread made from coarsley ground flour.
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Sylvester Graham
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made vaccination against smallpox
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Edward Jenner
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a Boston surgeon who began using sulphuric ether to sedate surgical patients.
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John Warren
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greatest educational reformer. Believed education was the only way to preserve a democracy. He reorganized the Massachusetts school system, lengthened the academic year, doubled teachers' salaries, broadened the curriculum, and introduced new methods of professional training for teachers.
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Horace Mann
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sisters who became active and outspoken abolitionists, ignored claims by men that their activism was inappropriate to their gender
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Sarah and Angelina Grimke
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his philosophy: Opponents of slavery should not talk about the evil influence of slavery on white society, but rather the damage the system did to blacks. Antislavery figure who founded the New England Antislavery Society.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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In the after the fact essay, The Madness of John Brown, what sickness did some critics believed he suffered from?
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Bi-polar disease
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T/F Critics argued whether or not John Brown was sane or mental in orchestrating the attack on Harper's Ferry.
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TRUE
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Was John Brown manic depressive?
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There has been great debate over this. Some signs point to this such as his long periods of mourning and wanting to die, but no clear answer can be given.
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T/F John Brown suffered a lot of loss as a child.
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True. He lost his mother, a pet squirrel, and a yellow marble he was very fond of.
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T/F Brown's family had a history of mental illness.
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TRUE
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What are some advantages the North had over the South in the Civil War?
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The North had an advanced industrial system able to manufacture almost all the North's own war materials. The North had a much better transportation system, with more and better railroads than did the south.
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What advantages did the South have over the North in the Civil War?
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For the most part, Southern armies were fighting a defensive war on familiar land with local support. The Northern armies were fighting mostly within the South amid hostile local populations.
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In the _____, the war produced considerable discord, frustration, and suffering, but it also produced prosperity and economic growth.
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North
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The government in the North tried to finance the war in what 3 ways?
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Levying taxes, issuing paper currency, and borrowing.
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The largest source of financing the war for the North was ____.
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Loans.
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The new president understood his own weaknesses, and he assembled a cabinet representing every faction of the Republican Party and every segment of Northern opinion.
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Abraham Lincoln
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T/F Lincoln's greatest political problem was the widespread popular opposition to the war, mobilized by those known as Peace Democrats and "Copperheads" by their enemies.
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True
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Kentucky senator who had 7 grandsons. Wanted to prevent the Civil War. Told Lincoln to make an amendment that would extend division of North and South and all North would be free and all South would be slave. Called the Crittenden Compromise which was rejected.
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John Crittenden
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______ was a minster to england during the Kansas controversy. Pro slavery in the background. One of the oldest presidents. Remained single all of his life.
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Buchanan
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Rodnitzky compared Lincoln to which other American president on the basis that both were shot, both weren't on the national scene for very long, and both greatly impacted American history?
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Kennedy
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T/F Lincoln was popular bc he was strong.
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TRUE
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T/F Lincoln and Kennedy were both able to laugh at themselves and joke.
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TRUE
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T/F Although Lincoln himself didn't believe in slavery, the main reason he sought to outlaw it was because of the Dec. of Ind. and what it implied about freedom.
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TRUE
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Slave that was returned to Massachusetts and cost the government 40,000 dollars to get him back to slavery.
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Anthony Burns
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Led small force at Fort Sumter
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Charles Adams
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Commander of confederate forces
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Beauregard
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The ______ clearly and irrevocably established that the war was being fought not only to preserve the Union but also to eliminate slavery
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Emancipation Proclamation
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White commander of 54 Massachusetts infantry, a member of an aristocratic Boston family
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Robert Gould Shaw
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Confederate secretary of state
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Judah Benjamin
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Ran for president, free-soil party
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Martin Buren
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What roles did women take over after men left for war?
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Teachers, salesclerks, office workers, mill and factory hands, and above all nursing
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Made compromise of 1850
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Henry Clay
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made repeating pistol (revolver)
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Samuel Colt
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break up compromise of 1850, senator from illionis
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Stephen Douglass
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Union commander took over NOLA
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David Farragut
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took over when taylor when he died. know nothing nominee
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Mill Fillmore
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general of Lincoln
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U Grant
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vice president of Lincoln
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Andrew Johnson
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____ thought the _____ was going against the Constitution and stagnating economy and growth.
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North, South
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_____ thought _____ was dumb bc slaves had better life than northern industrial workers and the only way they could be peaceful was through slavery. Key to prosperity of the nation was southern economy, southern way of life.
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South, North
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President of the Confederacy
Vice president of the Confederacy |
Jefferson David
Alexander Stephens |
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The Confederacy paid for the war throught the least stable, most destructive form of financing, ______.
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paper currency
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T/F In the South production of all goods increased during the war; in the North, it declined by more than a third.
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False
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The most important Union military commander was _____
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Abraham Lincoln
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_____ Lincoln's commander of the war. He shared Lincoln's belief in unremitting combat and in making enemy armies and resources, not enemy territory, the target of military efforts
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Ulysses S. Grant
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______ was President Davis's principle military advisor
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Robert E. Lee
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What were the advangtages for the Union having naval power?
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It enforced a blockade of the Southern coast and assisted the Union armies in field operations.
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_____ was the Confederate Secretary of state.
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Judah P. Benjamin
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_____ introduced the repeating rifle.
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Oliver Winchester
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What were 2 relatively new technologies used in the war?
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the railroad and the telegraph. The railroad was particularly important in mobilizing millions of soldiers and transferring them to the front.
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The surrender of _____ on April 25,1862 was a important turning point in the war. It closed off the mouth of the Mississippi to Confederate trade, and the South's largest city and most important banking center was in Union hands.
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New Orleans
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The war strengthened the North's economy, giving a spur to ____ and ______ development.
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industry, railroad
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The war weakened the South's economy by destroying millions of dollars of _____ and depleting the region's _______.
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property, youth male population
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_____ was hero of the mexican war. Was against slavery and succession. Said he could not make war on his own county.
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Robert E. Lee
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Told Lincoln the way to win war was through Anaconda Plan: restrict goods up and down mississippi to supply army.
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Winfield Scott
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The Civil War began on ______.
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April 14,1861 when Anderson surrendered.
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began publishing The Liberator in 1831which dealt with why slavery was unmoral,etc.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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In ___ Dorthea Dix crusades for prison and insane asylum reform.
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Dorthea Dix
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____ was the first state to secede from the Union.
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South Carolina
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Democratic senator from Illinois; pushed the Kansas-Nebraska Act through Congress
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Stephen Douglass
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_____ of South Carolina beat Massachusetts Senator _____ brutally with his cane.
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Preston Brooks, Charles Sumner
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Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional in the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision
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Roger Taney
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Made a pamphlet suggesting slaves free themselves.
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David Walker
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