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chapter 13 Flashcards

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year of the first public high school

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1821

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year the Erie Canal was completed

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1825

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passing on knowledge and tradition of the past to new generations

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traditional education

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wrote the Blue-Backed Speller

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Noah Webster

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American spelling book that was an all-in-one textbook used by most schools in America

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Blue-Backed Speller

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wrote America’s first dictionary

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Noah Webster

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wrote the Eclectic Readers

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William H. McGuffey

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______ are also called eclectic readers

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McGuffey’s Readers

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promoted primary education for all children; created first normal schools to train teachers

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Horace Mann

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schools to train teachers

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normal schools

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public schools were called _______

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free schools

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America’s first tax-supported high school (public high school) was in _______

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Boston

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first state university

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University of North Carolina

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first co-ed college

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Oberlin University

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first college for only women

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Wesleyan College

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organizations that conducted discussions and established libraries and public schools

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lyceums

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founded the first lyceum

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Josiah Holbrook

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first newspaper to gain national readership

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New York Tribune

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founded the New York Tribune

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Horace Greeley

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______ allowed papers to be printed with great speed

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telegraph

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discovered and published many of America’s greatest writers

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William Dean Howells

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____ made plowing easier for the rocky soil in the North

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the steel plow

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invented the steel plow

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John Deere

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____ allowed for easier harvest of grain

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the reaper

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invented the reaper
Cyrus McCormick
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______ invented the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
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the _______ revolutionized the cotton industry in the South
cotton gin (know it was in the SOUTH)
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cotton became ______ in the South
King
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crops that the South was known for
tobacco, rice, hemp, and sugar cane
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work done at home that was the majority of work and production in Colonial America
domestic system
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brought the factory system to America from England
Samuel Slater
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Samuel Slater was known as _______
Father of the American Factory System
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the _______ industry prospered more than any other because of the factory system
textile
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invented the power loom
Francis Cabot Lowell
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improved the sewing machine
Elias Howe
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made the sewing machine a common household item
Isaac Singer
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invented the first practical steam engine
James Watt
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invented the high-pressured steam engine
Oliver Evans
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most roads in the 1800s were either _____ or _______
dirt roads or corduroy roads
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America's first "highway"
Cumberland Road
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roads created to add drainage
macadam roads
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created macadam roads
John L. McAdam
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invented the first practical steamboat
Robert Fulton
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first practical steamboat
the Clermont
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man-made body of water that connects two larger bodies of water
canals
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________ popularized the use of canals and completed the Erie Canal in 1825
DeWitt Clinton
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most expensive yet convenient form of travel
railroads
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by 1840, nearly ______ miles of track had been laid
3,000
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_______ greatly cut ocean travel time across the Atlantic
clipper ship
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_______ caused a decline in American shipbuilding industries because most were made in England
steamboats
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mail-carrying company between Missouri and California
Pony Express
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invented the telegraph
Samuel Morse
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a series of underwater cables laid for telegraph communication
transatlantic cable
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mapped the ocean for the transatlantic cable
Matthew Maury
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"Pathfinder of the Seas"
Matthew Maury
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_______ laid the transatlantic cable and completed the project
Cyrus Field
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_____ invested capital into corporations for profit
investors
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common working class people working in factories
laborers
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from 1800-1860, America's population grew from ___ to ___ million people
5 to 31
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the _______ saw the most dramatic population growth
West and cities
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most immigrants to the US were from ____ and ____
Ireland and Germany
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the age of literature around this time was referred to as ________
the Romantic Era
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wrote the first truly American fiction
James Fenimore Cooper
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________ developed the detective story and mystery genre
Edgar Allen Poe
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most popular American poet of the 19th century
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Fireside Poet)
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______ was known for writing Moby Dick
Herman Melville
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America's only great epic
Moby Dick
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Father of American History
George Bancroft
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known for the Hudson River School Movement (this has to do with art)
Thomas Cole
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known for the art piece, The Peaceable Kingdom
Edward Hicks
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_______ were developed in music
shape notes
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known for music education in public schools
Lowell Mason
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"Father of American Music"
Stephen Foster
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