Chapter 13

Question 1

best remembered for his Blue-Backed Speller

Answer 1

Webster

Question 2

wrote the first AMerican dictionary

Answer 2

Webster

Question 3

the most widely used series of schoolbooks in America

Answer 3

McGuffey’s Readers

Question 4

wrote most widely used schoolbooks in America

Answer 4

Mcguffey

Question 5

written by Mcguffey and taught Christian morals and school subjects

Answer 5

Eclectic Readers

Question 6

promoted the idea of public schools (mainly in Massachusetts)

Answer 6

Horace Mann

Question 7

name for school for professional training pf teachers

Answer 7

normal school

Question 8

helped found the first normal school

Answer 8

Mann

Question 9

because they didn’t have to pay, people called public schools

Answer 9

free schools

Question 10

type of teaching that focuses on passing on to new generations the body of knowledge and teh great traditions of the past

Answer 10

traditional education

Question 11

year and place of America’s first public high school

Answer 11

Boston 1821

Question 12

chartered the first state university

Answer 12

Georgia

Question 13

first state university to began to operate

Answer 13

University of North Carolina

Question 14

the first coeducational college

Answer 14

Oberlin College in Ohio

Question 15

first women-only college

Answer 15

Wesleyan College in Georgia

Question 16

teacher and itinerant lecturer that pioneered the lyceum movement in the States

Answer 16

Holbrook

Question 17

owner of New York Herald

Answer 17

Bennett

Question 18

owner of New York Tribune

Answer 18

Greeley

Question 19

inventor of steel plow

Answer 19

John Deere

Question 20

invented reaper

Answer 20

McCormick

Question 21

invented cotton gin

Answer 21

Eli Whitney

Question 22

the “king” crop in the South

Answer 22

cotton

Question 23

other important crops in the South

Answer 23

tobacco (world’s leading producer)
sugar cane
rice
hemp
corn
oats
wheat

Question 24

manufacturing in the home

Answer 24

domestic system

Question 25

Father of the American Factory System

Answer 25

Samuel Slater

Question 26

made sewing machine common household item

Answer 26

Singer

Question 27

invented power loom

Answer 27

Lowell

Question 28

invented a much-improved sewing machine

Answer 28

Howe

Question 29

invented the first PRACTICAL steam engine

Answer 29

Watt

Question 30

first American to develop a HIGH-PRESSURE steam engine

Answer 30

Oliver Evans

Question 31

roads in which logs were laid side by side

Answer 31

corduroy road

Question 32

one of the earliest corduroy roads that connected Lancaster, pennsylvania, and Philadelphia

Answer 32

Lancaster Turnpike

Question 33

connected Cumberland, ML, to Wheeling, VA, and eventually all the way to IL

Answer 33

Cumberland (National) Road

Question 34

british engineer who engineered roads that were raised above their surrounding terrain in order to aid drainage

Answer 34

McAdam (roads are called macadam roads)

Question 35

built the first PRACTICAL steamboat

Answer 35

Fulton

Question 36

Fulton's steamboat

Answer 36

Clermont

Question 37

began the canal era

Answer 37

completion of the Erie Canal

Question 38

year of the completion of the Erie Canal

Answer 38

1825

Question 39

much of the credit for the construction of the Erie Canal goes to

Answer 39

DeWitt Clinton

Question 40

the name Clinton's enemies gave the Erie Canal project

Answer 40

Clinton's Ditch

Question 41

the Erie Canal connected the

Answer 41

Hudson River to Lake Erie

Question 42

the railroad on which Peter Cooper's engine had its trial run

Answer 42

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

Question 43

name for Cooper's engine

Answer 43

Tom Thumb

Question 44

railroad that connected Albany and Schenectady

Answer 44

Mohawk ad Hudson Railroad

Question 45

boasted the longest railroad in the world at the time

Answer 45

South Carolina

Question 46

AMerica's greatest contribution to the history of sailing vessels was

Answer 46

clipper ship

Question 47

two clipper ships that traveled from the East Coast to California in 89 days

Answer 47

Andrew Jackson Flying Cloud

Question 48

began building an electrical instrument by which a combination of dots and dashes could be transmitted

Answer 48

Samuel Morse

Question 49

American naval officer and oceanographer that studied the ocean to help plot out a route for the transatlantic cable

Answer 49

Mattew Maury

Question 50

laid the transatlantic cable

Answer 50

Cyrus Field

Question 51

two important classes of people that emerged

Answer 51

investors laborers

Question 52

composed of those who invested in industry

Answer 52

investors

Question 53

money or property

Answer 53

capital

Question 54

owned mutually by a number of investors who buy stock ; formed to generate necessary capital

Answer 54

corporations

Question 55

profits that are divided among the investors in proportion to the number of shares of stock each investor owns

Answer 55

dividends

Question 56

group very important for manufacturing

Answer 56

laborers

Question 57

the largest number of immigrants between 1820 and 1850 were from

Answer 57

Ireland (potato famine, British rule)

Question 58

the second largest group of immigrants to come to America

Answer 58

Germans (economic problems, revolutions )