Chapter 11

Question 0

manufacturing interchangeable parts

Answer 0

American System of Manufacturing

Question 1

main market was in the north; northern agriculture was at an all-time high

Answer 1

McCormick reaper

Question 2

__________ swept through cities and felled thousands; yellow fever and cholera

Answer 2

Epidemics

Question 3

idea that the human mind comprised 37 distinct faculties; Orson and Lorenzo Fowler

Answer 3

phrenology

Question 4

relied on mass circulation to turn a profit; introduced by James Gordon Bennett

Answer 4

penny press

Question 5

blackface shows

Answer 5

minstrel shows

Question 6

father of mass entertainment in the United States

Answer 6

P.T. Barnum

Question 7

flowering of literature in the United States

Answer 7

American Renaissance

Question 8

first important figure in American Renaissance

Answer 8

James Fenimore Cooper

Question 9

spokesman for American literary nationalism; transcendentalism;

Answer 9

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 10

fully lived his ideas (civil disobedience); “Walden”

Answer 10

Henry David Thoreau

Question 11

feminist and transcendentalist

Answer 11

Margaret Fuller

Question 12

“Leaves of Grass”

Answer 12

Walt Whitman

Question 13

“The Scarlet Letter”

Answer 13

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 14

“Moby Dick”

Answer 14

Herman Melville

Question 15

center of American landscape painting

Answer 15

Hudson River School

Question 16

Name an American landscape painter

Answer 16

Catlin