Chapter 13- Education & Technology Flashcards
(44 cards)
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McGuffey
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Eclectic readers
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Webster
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“Blue-backed speller”
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Mann
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Rapid growth of public schools
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Free schools
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Public schools
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1821
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First public high school
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University of North Carolina
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First state university
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Wesleyan college
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First all women college
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Oberlin college
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First coeducational college
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Holbrook
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Father of Lyceum movement
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Bennett
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Began New York herald
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Greeley
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New York tribune
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Lycuems
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National american Lyceum
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Normal schools
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Professional training of teachers
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Deere
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Developed steel plow
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McCormick
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Invented reaper
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Whitney
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Invented cotton gin
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Cotton
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“king” in south
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Other crops grown in south
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- Tobacco
- Sugar
- Rice
- Corn
- Oats
- Wheat
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Domestic system
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Manufacturing in the home
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Slater
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“Father of american factory system”
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Lowell
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Invented power loom
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Howe
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Invented sewing machine
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Singer
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Works with Howe
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Watt
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First practical steam engine
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Evans
Developed high-pressure steam engine
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Factory system
Took place of domestic
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"Coudary road"
Road formed by logs laid side by side
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Macadam roads
Raised above surrounding terrain to aid drainage
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Fulton
Built first practical steamboat
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Erie Canal
Connected Hudson River with lake erie
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Baltimore & ohio railroad
cooper's engine made a train run
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Mohawk & Hudson railroad
Connected Albany & Schenectady
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Clipper ships
Americas greatest contribution to sailing vessels
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Morse
Invented telegraph
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Pony express
Private company that carried mail between missouri and california
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Maury
"Pathfinder of the seas," helped lay out route for transatlantic cable
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Field
Completed an improved & permanent transatlantic cable
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New classes of people created when industrialization began to increase
Investors & laborers
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Telegraph
Put pony express out of business
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Country that provided largest number of immigrants between 1820-1850
Ireland
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Reasons why Irishman came to america
1. Upset with British rule
2. Potato crop failed
3. Severe famine set in
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Second largest group of immigrants to settle in america
Germans
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Reasons why Germans came to america
1. Economic problems
| 2. Escape from persecution
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Why America became alarmed as number of immigrants began to increase
1. Feared newcomers would take their jobs
| 2. Feared they would pull down standard living
