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year of the first public high school
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1821
2
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year the Erie Canal was completed
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1825
3
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passing on knowledge and tradition of the past to new generations
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traditional education
4
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wrote the Blue-Backed Speller
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Noah Webster
5
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wrote America’s first dictionary
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Noah Webster
6
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wrote eclectic readers
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William H. McGuffey
7
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promoted public education for all children
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Horace Mann
8
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created normal schools to train teachers
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Horace Mann
9
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city the first public school was in
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Boston
10
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first state university
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University of North Carolina
11
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first co-ed college
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Oberlin University (so it was the first to allow women)
12
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first college for only women
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Wesleyan College
13
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organizations that conducted discussions and established libraries and public schools
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lyceums
14
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founded the first lyceum
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Josiah Holbrook
15
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first newspaper to gain national readership
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New York Tribune
16
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founded the New York Tribune
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Horace Greeley
17
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created the telegraph
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Samuel Morse
18
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invented the steel plow
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John Deere
19
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_______ invented the reaper
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Cyrus McCormick
20
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invented the cotton gin
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Eli Whitney
21
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_______ became king in the South
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cotton
22
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the majority of work and production done in colonial America was based around the _________
A
domestic system (work done at home)
23
Q
Father of the American Factory System
A
Samuel Slater
24
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this industry prospered more than any other because of the factory system
A
textiles
25
created the power loom
Francis Lowell
26
invented/improved the sewing machine
Elias Howe
27
made the sewing machine a common household item
Isaac Singer
28
invented the first practical steam engine
James Watt
29
created the high-pressured steam engine
Oliver Evans
30
most roads in the 1800s were either dirt roads or _______ roads
corduroy roads
31
America's first highway
Cumberland Road
32
roads created to add drainage to roads
macadam roads
33
invented the first practical steamboat (the Clermont)
Robert Fulton
34
popularized the use of canals and completed the Erie Canal in 1825
DeWitt Clinton
35
most expensive yet convenient form of travel
railroads
36
______ greatly cut ocean travel time across the Atlantic
clipper ships
37
most _______ were made in England, causing a decline in American shipbuilding industries
steamboats
38
mail-carrying company between Missouri and California
Pony Express
39
series of underwater cables laid for telegraph communication
transatlantic cable
40
"Pathfinder of the Seas"
Matthew Maury (mapped the ocean for the transatlantic cable)
41
laid the transatlantic cable and completed the project
Cyrus Field
42
invested capital ($) into corporations for profit
investors
43
common working class people working in factories
laborers
44
the majority of immigrants to the US were from ______ and ______
Ireland and Germany
45
wrote the first truly American fiction
James Fenimore Cooper
46
developed the detective story and mystery genre
Edgar Allen Poe
47
most popular Fireside Poet of the 19th century
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
48
wrote America's only great epic
Herman Melville
49
America's only great epic
Moby Dick
50
Father of American History
George Bancroft
51
known for the painting the Peaceable Kingdom
Edward Hicks
52
Father of American Music
Stephen Foster
53
year of the Texas War for Independence
1836
54
year Texas was annexed
1845
55
years of the Mexican War
1846-1848
56
year of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
1848
57
year of the California Gold Rush
1849
58
year of the Gadsden Purchase
1853
59
years of President James Polk's presidency
1845-1849
60
nickname for Texas once it became free
"Lone Star Republic"
61
________ was granted a large tract of land in Texas by the government of Mexico
Moses Austin
62
first to lead American settlers to Texas
Stephen Austin
63
leader of Mexico
Santa Anna
64
leader of Texan forces
Sam Houston
65
first major battle of the Texas War for Independence
the Alamo
66
famous people at the Alamo
William Travis, Davy Crockett, James Bowie
67
turning point of the Texas War for Independence
Battle of San Jacinto
68
first president of Texas
Sam Houston
69
expression of the people's will by a vote
plebiscite
70
two nations that had land in Oregon
United States and England
71
_________ established an extensive fur trade for England in Oregon
Hudson's Bay Company
72
________ established a Methodist mission in the Oregon Territory
Jason Lee
73
Presbyterian medical missionary sent to Oregon by the American Board of Foreign Missions
Dr. Marcus Whitman
74
led by Marcus Whitman across the Rockies to settle Oregon
Great Migration
75
the main “road” that settlers took to the Oregon Territory; most travelled by conestoga wagons
Oregon Trail
76
president with the famous campaign slogan, "Fifty-four Forty or Fight"
President James K. Polk
77
parallel that set the Canada-Oregon border
49th Parallel
78
American general sent to protect the Texas-Mexico border from possible invasion
Zachary Taylor
79
Zachary Taylor's nickname
"Old Rough and Ready"
80
negotiated for the purchase of Texas
John Slidell
81
river the US saw as the boundary between Texas and Mexico
Rio Grande
82
capital city of Mexico
Mexico City
83
led American settlers in California against the Mexican government
John C. Fremont
84
revolt in California
Bear Flag Revolt
85
treaty that ended the Mexican War
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
86
man in California with a ranch where gold was found
John Sutter
87
name for gold miners
forty-niners
88
_______ finalized the border of California
the Gadsden Purchase
89
allowed the US to possess any unclaimed land that had guano fertilizer
Guano Islands Act
90
gold rush “street preacher” who became a missionary around the world; farthest reaching missionary of any Methodist evangelist
William Taylor
91
year there was a compromise over California being a slave or free state
1850
92
year of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
1854
93
year the Republican Party was formed
1854
94
year Abraham Lincoln was elected, the first presidential Republican victory
1860
95
president from 1849-50
Zachary Taylor
96
president from 1850-53
Millard Fillmore
97
president from 1853-57
Franklin Pierce
98
president from 1857-61
James Buchanan
99
president from 1861-65
Abraham Lincoln
100
issues of slavery
1. discouraged immigrants and skilled workers
2. caused distinct, strict social classes
3. became a very costly investment for slave owners
4. severely immoral and unethical "business" practice
101
nation founded for freed slaves
Liberia
102
abolitionist who promoted immediate freedom for all slaves; wrote The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
103
secret organization designed to help slaves escape the South
Underground Railroad
104
escaped slave from Maryland; best conductor of the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
105
says that individuals decide slavery or freedom for themselves
popular sovereignty (Lewis Cass proposed)
106
______ ran for the Free-Soil Party in 1848
Martin van Buren
107
_______ admitted California as a free state as well as fixing the Texas-Mexico border, prohibiting slave trade in DC, and forming a new fugitive slave law
Compromise of 1850
108
president after Zachary Taylor died
Millard Fillmore
109
_________ was the offensive document written that said that if Spain refused to sell Cuba, the US could take Cuba
Ostend Manifesto
110
Stephen Douglas promoted ______
the Kansas-Nebraska Act
111
in Kansas
1. pro slavery
2. anti slavery
1. Lecompton
2. Lawrence
112
abolitionist who initiated violence in Kansas
John Brown
113
the beliefs a party has on political issues
platform
114
first candidate of the Republican Party
John C. Fremont
115
chief justice of the Supreme Court during the Dred Scott Case
Roger Taney
116
two men who debated for a seat in Senate
Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln (Douglas won)
117
_______ led an uprising in Harper's Ferry, Virginia
John Brown
118
captured John Brown and his men
Robert E. Lee
119
wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
120
published The Impending Crisis of the South
Hinton Rowan Helper
121
first Republican president
Abraham Lincoln
122
Abraham Lincoln's vice president
Hannibal Hamlin
123
first state to secede from the Union
South Carolina
124
president of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
125
vice president of the Confederate States of America
Alexander H. Stephens
126
day of prayer for the Union
January 4, 1861
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flashcards
Decks in class (35)
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Chapter 1 quiz66
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Chapter 2 quiz45
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3.1-3.347
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test 1178
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5.1-343
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chapter 656
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notes88
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7.1-254
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speech16
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8.1-8.452
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test 3310
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chapter 950
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10.1-446
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11.1-11.247
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12.1-12.341
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test 4132
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chapter 1373
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14.1-14.235
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chapter 1554
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test 5126
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16.1-16.460
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17.1-341
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EXAM188
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chapter 1871
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19.1-19.485
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20.1-252
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2171
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20-21142
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22.1-567
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a bit more of 2347
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chapter 2450
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quiz78
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test 10128
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chapter 2665
