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24 Cards in this Set
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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 (B&O)
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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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The wrong motive that lay behind public education in America was that educators?
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believed they could solve society's problems
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The Seneca Falls Convention passed resolutions which supported what important area of reform?
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women's suffrage
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What did Prohibition seek to reform?
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alcohol abuse
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What type of painting attempted to copy the balanced, restrained styles of Europe?
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Federalist
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What famous architect helped design the United States Capitol?
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Charles Bulfinch
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Who began a famous poem with the line "I celebrate myself, and sing myself"?
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Walt Whitman
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Who became famous for writing short stories and poems that explored the dark side of human nature?
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Edgar Allen Poe
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What was the revival that affected the entire nation in the early eighteenth century?
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Cane Ridge revival
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What religion was popular among prominent Patriots, such as Thomas Paine?
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Deism
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Where was the greatest camp meeting revival held?
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Cane Ridge
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What young sect became America's largest denomination by 1840?
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Methodists
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What biblical teaching was misused by Baptist minister William Miller?
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Second Coming of Christ
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What group was persecuted because the men took more than one wife?
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Mormonism
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What was the first revival to be led primarily by laymen?
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Prayer Meeting Revival
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What new production method did Eli Whitney use to make standardized rifles?
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interchangeable parts
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What will the government grant an inventor to protect his rights to an invention?
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patent
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What was the fastest type of sailing ship ever built?
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clipper ship
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What do we call a Methodist who traveled on horseback to the small frontier settlements in his region?
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circuit riders
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