Chapter 11 - Changing American Life

Question 1

Who cut the Wilderness Road through Kentucky?

Answer 1

Daniel Boone

Question 2

Who conducted the first major trial of a railroad?

Answer 2

Peter Cooper

Question 3

Who discovered the Cumberland Gap?

Answer 3

Thomas Walker

Question 4

Who invented the telegraph?

Answer 4

Samuel Morse

Question 5

Who built the Clermont, making steamboat travel popular?

Answer 5

Robert Fulton

Question 6

True or False? The National Road was the first federally funded highway.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

True or False? The most famous canal, the Hudson Canal, connected Lake Erie with Albany, New York, on the Hudson River.

Answer 7

False

Question 8

True or False? The greatest problem for canals was competition from the new railroads.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

A(n) _________________ is a shallow, manmade water highway that connects two bodies of water.

Answer 9

canal

Question 10

The __________________, another innovation in communication, replaced the pony express.

Answer 10

telegraph

Question 11

Who put a steel blade on the plow?

Answer 11

John Deere

Question 12

Who invented the sewing machine?

Answer 12

Elias Howe

Question 13

Who organized a mill town for girls in Massachusetts?

Answer 13

Francis Cabot Lowell

Question 14

What was an English mechanic who made factory machinery in Rhode Island?

Answer 14

Samuel Slater

Question 15

Who created interchangeable factory parts and the cotton gin?

Answer 15

Eli Whitney

Question 16

True or False? Charles Finney was the most famous revivalist of the Second Great Awakening.

Answer 16

True

Question 17

True or False? Romanticism placed a great emphasis on emotion and intuition.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

True or False? Commodore Perry took several warships to force a trade treaty with the Chinese.

Answer 18

False

Question 19

The ____________________ system collected many workers in one place, where they turned out many similar items in one day.

Answer 19

factory

Question 20

The ____________________ was a new type of sailing vessel designed for increased speeds.

Answer 20

clipper

Question 21

Who was Asahel Nettleton?

Answer 21

A revivalist

Question 22

Who was Francis Cabot Lowell?

Answer 22

An industrialist

Question 23

Who was Horace Mann?

Answer 23

He liked reform movements.

Question 24

Who was Timothy Dwight?

Answer 24

A revivalist

Question 25

Who was Ralph Waldo Emerson?

Answer 25

A transcendentalist

Question 26

Who was William Ellery Channing

Answer 26

A Unitarianist

Question 27

True or False? Large revival gatherings in western areas such as Kentucky and Tennessee were called camp meetings.

Answer 27

True

Question 28

True or False? Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were famous female abolitionist who organized the Seneca Falls Convention for women's rights.

Answer 28

True

Question 29

True or False? Realism was a movement in literature that placed a great emphasis on emotion.

Answer 29

False

Question 30

True or False? During this period, most immigrants came to America from Ireland and France.

Answer 30

False

Question 31

True or False? Workers formed labor unions to promote their goals for labor reforms.

Answer 31

True

Question 32

True or False? Americans expanded their sea trade to include China, Japan, and Sumatra.

Answer 32

True

Question 33

True or False? The Second Great Awakening was a partial result of changes occurring in American colleges.

Answer 33

True

Question 34

True or False? Turnpikes were a very profitable business that private companies maintained for years.

Answer 34

False

Question 35

True or False? Industrial growth in the early 1800s occurred extensively in the South.

Answer 35

False

Question 36

True or False? American ships that traded with Asia also helped the United States lay claim to the Pacific coast of North America.

Answer 36

True

Question 37

True or False? A major function of the early telegraph network was to keep canal traffic coordinated.

Answer 37

False

Question 38

Who ultimately maintained the roads and turnpikes?

Answer 38

The states

Question 39

Why were people so willing to work in the factories even though the working conditions were not the best?

Answer 39

They couldn't farm in the north because the soil was so bad.

Question 40

What is the Second Great Awakening?