American History Test

1821

First Public High School

1825

Completion of the Erie Canal

Traditional Education

Passing on knowledge and tradition of the past to new generations

Blue-Backed Speller

American Spelling book

Noah Webster

Wrote America’s 1st dictionary

Horace Mann

Promoted primary education for all children; created the 1st normal schools to train teachers

1821

America’s 1st tax-supported high school in Boston

University of North Carolina

1st state university

Oberlin U.

1st Co-ed college

Mcguffey readers

What book was written by William H. McGuffey

Horace Mann

Who created the 1st normal schools

Free schools

What were public schools called

Boston

Where was America’s 1st tax-supported high school

Wesleyan College

1st college for only women

Lyceums

Organizations that conducted discussions and established libraries and public schools

Josiah Holbrook

founded the 1st Lcyceum

Newspapers and Magezines

New York Tribune

Founded by Horace Greeley; 1st newspaper to gain a national readership

William Dean Howells

discovered and published many of America’s greatest writers

Steel Plow

invented by John Deere during the 1830s; made plowing easier for the rocky soil in the North

Reaper

invented by Cyrus McCormick; allowed for easier harvest of grain

Cotton Gin

Invented by Eli Whitney (1793)

Telegraph

What allowed for papers to be printed with great speed

Horace Greeley

Who founded the New York Tribune

Eli Whitney

Who invented the Cotton Gin

South

What region was the cotton industry revolutionized

South

What region did Cotton became king

Domestic System

Majority of work and production in Colonial America was based around what system?

Francis Lowell

power loom

Elias Howe

Sewing machine

James Watt

Invented the first practical steam engine

Oliver Evans

High-pressured steam engine

Cumberland Road

America’s 1st “highway”

Macadam Roads

created by John Macadam; added drainage to roads

Samuel Slater

Who brought the factory system to America from England

Samuel Slater

Who is known as the father of the American Factory system

Textile Industry

What prospered more than any other industry

High-pressured steam engine

What did Oliver Evans invent

Practical steam engine

What did James Watt invent

Corduroy Roads

What were most of the roads in the 1800s

Robert Fulton

invented the 1st steamboat, the Clermont

Clinton

Popularized the use of canals; completed the Erie Canal in 1825

Railroads

Most expensive yet convenient form of transportation

Clipper Ship

greatly cut ocean travel time across the Atlantic

Steamboats

Most were made in England; caused a decline in American shipbuilding industries

Pony Express

mail-carrying company between Missouri and Califronia (1860)

Telegraph

invented by Samuel Morse (1844);

The Clermont

What was the name of the 1st steamboat

Erie Canal

What did DeWitt Clinton create

Samuel Morse

Who invented the telegraph

Transatlantic Cable

A series of underwater cables laid for telegraph communication

Matthew Maury

Mapped the ocean for the cable; “Pathfinder of the Seas”

Cyrus Field

laid the cable and completed the project (1858)

Investors

invested capital money into corporations for profit

Laborers

Common working class people working in factories

West

What region saw the most dramatic growth

Ireland and Germany

What countries were majority of immigrants from

Romantic era

What is the mid 19th century considered as

Cooper

wrote 1st truly American fiction

Edgar Allan Poe

developed the detective story and mystery genre

Detective Story and Mystery Genre

What 2 books did Edgar Allan Poe develop?

Longfellow

most popular American poet of the 19th century; fireside poet

Fireside poet

What is Longfellow known as?

Herman Melville

Known for writing Moby Dick

Moby Dick

What is America's only great epic?

Bancroft

Father of American History

Thomas Cole

Hudson River School

Edward Hicks

The Peaceable Kingdom

The Peaceable Kingdom

What did Edward Hicks write?

Shape Notes

What in music was developed?

Mason

Music education. In Public Schools

Foster

“Father of American Music”

1836

Texas War for Independence

1845

Annexation of Texas

1848

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

1849

California Gold Rush

Moses Austin

granted a large tract of land in Texas by the govt. Of Mexico

Stephen Austin

1st to lead American settlers to Texas

General Santa Anna

Leader in Mexico

Sam Houston

Leader of Texan Forces

The Alamo

First major battle of the war

William Travis

led the Texans against Santa Anna's army

Crockett and Bowie

What 2 defenders were killed in the Alamo?

Lone Star Republic

What was established when the Mexican army surrendered?

Sam Houston

1st president of Texas

Plebiscite

expression of the people's will by a vote; Texas wanted to be annexed to America

Slavery

Why was the North against Texas joining the war?

Hudson Bay Company

established an extensive fur trade for England

Jason Lee

established a Methodist mission in the Oregon Territory

1846-1848

Mexican War

1845-1849

President James Polk

1853

Gadsden Purchase

Jason Lee

established a Methodist mission in the Oregon Territory

Dr Marcus Whitman

Presbyterian medical missionary sent by the American Board of Foreign Missions

Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Spalding

1st white women to journey west of the Rockies

Great Migration

Led by Marcus Whitman across the Rockies to settle Oregon

Oregon Trail

The main “road” that settlers took to the Oregon Territory; most travelled by Conestoga wagons

Jedediah Smith

The South Pass

James K. Polk

Defeated Henry Clay in the election of 1844

“Fifty-four Forty or Fight”

Polk’s famous campaign slogan of his willingness to fight the British for Northwest territory