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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What freed factories from dependence on rivers? | steam power |
| What was the name of the court case that ruled that unions were legal? | commonwealth vs hunt |
| What was a problem faced by rapidly growing cities? | Poor sewage system, spread of disease, housing shortage, poverty |
| What’s the name of young, unmarried women who left their farms to work in factory town in Massachusetts? | lowell mill girls |
| What was the nickname for Cincinnati during this time? | porkopolis |
| Most southern whites were? | yeomen farmers |
| A planter was defined as someone owning ___. | 20+ slaves |
| A planter aristocrat was defined as someone owning ___. | 100+ slaves |
| What event encouraged many Irish to come America? | Irish potato famine |
| Where Irish immigrants well off or poor? | poor |
| Where did the Irish mostly settle? | eastern cities |
| Where the Germans immigrants well off or poor? | well off |
| Where did the Germans settle? | midwest farms |
| What was a reason people feared these new immigrants? | Job competition and fear of religious stuff |
| What was the name of the anti-immigrant party? | American party |
| List one reason for the expansion of newspapers during the 1830s and 1840s. | Penny papers and steam-powered printing press |
| Who wrote "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" ? | washington irving |
| Who wrote the novel The Last of the Mohicans? | james cooper |
| List one transcendentalist author. | ralph emerson |
| What effect did education reform have on sectional politics? | Isolated the south intellectually |
| Who wrote The Scarlet Letter? | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Who wrote Moby Dick? | Herman Melville |
| Who wrote "Paul Revere's Ride? | Henry Longfellow |
| Who depicted the common man and scenes of frontier life? | George bingham |
| What was the name of the Artist that painted American birds? | Audubon |
| Who was known as the "father of American music?" | stephen foster |
| What religious belief saw God as a "clockmaker?" | Deism |
| What religious belief rejected the idea of the trinity and emphasized free will? | unitarianism |
| Why did the Second Great Awakening fit in well with Jacksonian Democracy? | optimism |
| What where the results of the Second Great Awakening. | Increase number of religious sects |
| Transcendentalism was more a_____ rather than a religion. | philosophy |
| 30. Transcendentalism believed in the __- the nebulous belief that God (or goodness) is present within all things. | oversoul |
| List one cause for the rise of Utopian communitarianism. | Increased belief in perfectibility of man |
| Which group renounced marriage and sex and interpreted the Bible literally? | William rapp and the rappites |
| Which group was so named because they shook sin out of their fingers during meetings? | shakers |
| Which group developed into the Seventh Day Adventist Church? | Millerites |
| Which group believed in the idea of “complex marriage?" | Oneida community |
| Which group was designed as an intellectual community? | Brook Farm |
| Which group was the communitarian success story? | mormons |
| Who discover the golden tablets that were translated into the Book of Mormon? | Joseph smith |
| Who led the Mormons to Salt Lake City? | Brigham Young |
| What were the reasons for development of reform movements ? | Second Great Awakening and optimism |
| What were the prison reforms? | Imprisonment for debt eliminated |
| Who was the leading reformer for the treatment of the insane? | Dorothea Dix |
| Why did temperance organizations try to ban alcohol? | Excess drink was blamed for many societal ills |
| What was the name of the 1848 women's right convention? | Seneca Falls Convention |
| What were the reasons for the demand for free public education? | Fear of illiterate immigrants |
| Who was known as the father of American Education? | Horace Mann |
| Who was known as the schoolmaster of the republic? | Noah Webster |
| What were the primary gains for education during this time period? | State control of education is established |
| What effect did education reform have on sectional politics? | Isolate the south intellectually |
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