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28 Cards in this Set
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cotton gin
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Eli Whitney
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steamboat
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Robert Fulton
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steel plow
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John Deere
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reaping machine
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Cyrus McCormick
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telegraph
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Samuel Morse
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textile mill
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Samuel Slater
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Erie Canal
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DeWitt Clinton
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Abolitionists wanted to abolish alcohol because drunkenness affected production.
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False - abolition has to do with slavery, not alcohol
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What harm did Nat Turner’s Rebellion do? (besides people that were killed)
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ruined all hope of a bill asking for gradual emancipation to be passed
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What was wrong with Horace Mann’s focus on education?
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Mann believed that the focus should be on man’s head, not on his heart.
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How did the opening of the West lead to changes for women?
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Because there were fewer women in the West, they had to be self-reliant and independent.
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How did the Industrial Revolution lead to changes for women?
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Women were able to work outside of the home and receive wages for their work.
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Why does the term “utopia” fit the idea of man trying to make an “ideal” place?
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Utopia means no place. Man cannot make a place that is perfect.
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What did the Hudson River School of Painters specialize in painting?
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landscapes
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What type of music was popular during this time?
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folk music (Stephen Foster)
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What is deism?
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belief that God created the universe, set it into operation, and left it to work by itself
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Who is the “Father of Modern Methodism”?
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Francis Asbury
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Do the terms “order” and “restraint” describe revivals in the East or in the West?
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East
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What significance did a haystack have to the birth of foreign missions?
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While taking shelter by a haystack during a storm, some college students expressed the need to take the gospel to others.
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Whom do transcendentalists put their trust in?
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man
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What was America's first major industry?
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Textiles
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In 1860 what was America's most important export?
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Cotton
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What was the main reason the South fell behind the North in developing industry?
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Reliance on cotton exports for income
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Why were roads so common in early America when travel by boat was much cheaper?
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Roads were the only way to reach landlocked areas.
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What was America's first economically successful railroad?
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Baltimore and Ohio
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What event was heralded by the words "What hath God wrought"?
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The first intercity telegraph message
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What was the wrong motive that lay behind public education in America?
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Educators believed they could solve society's problems.
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What area of reform did the Seneca Falls Convention address?
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Women's suffrage
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