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Wild Card
100

Besides the railroad, list two other infrastructure improvements, and provide an example of each.

What is 1. roads (EX: National Roads-one was 591 miles long from Maryland to IL). 2. Steamboat (EX: 1,000 operated along the Mississippi River ).

100
The Irish immigrated in the 1840's to escape what?
What is the Potato Famine
100
Were slave families more likely to be separated or sold off on smaller or larger plantations?
What is smaller
100
Who invented the steamship? a. John Deere b. Cyrus McCormick c. Robert Fulton d. Thomas Edison
What is c. Robert Fulton
100
Define what "cult of domesticity" means?
What is it means the time period expectation when women married and therefore should them work as a homemaker in their home.
200
How did infrastructure improve transportation of goods?
What is made the movement of the goods faster and cheaper.
200
This person was the first American author recognized internationally for his work (since Jonathon Edwards).
What is Washington Irving
200
Who led the significant slave rebellion in 1831? a. Frederick Douglass b. Nat Turner c. William Lloyd Garrison d. Sojourner Truth
What is b. Nat Turner
200
Who invented the steel plow? a. John Deere b. Cyrus McCormick c. Robert Fulton d. Thomas Edison
What is a. John Deere
200
Who was the famous American poet of the 1800's?
What is Walt Whitman
300
The most significant transportation infrastructure advance was the __________.
What is railroad
300
Where did German immigrants settle when they came from 1830-1860?
What is small farms in the Midwest, especially in Wisconsin.
300
Who was the escaped slave whose autobiography helped the abolition movement? a. Frederick Douglass b. Nat Turner c. William Lloyd Garrison d. Sojourner Truth
What is a. Frederick Douglass
300
Who invented the mechanical reaper? a. John Deere b. Cyrus McCormick c. Robert Fulton d. Thomas Edison
What is b. Cyrus McCormick
300
How many miles of railroad track were laid down by 1861? a. 100,000 b. 60,000 c. 30,000 d. none of the above
What is c. 30,000
400
What technology was the communications breakthrough of the 1800's?
What is the telegraph
400
Thoreau wrote about __________ ______________ extensively.
What is civil disobedience.
400
Who was the editor of The Liberator? a. Frederick Douglass b. Nat Turner c. William Lloyd Garrison d. Sojourner Truth
What is c. William Lloyd Garrison
400
This person was responsible for the Mormons move to Utah.
Who is Brigham Young
400
T/F: the Transcendentalist Movement was a reaction against Romanticism.
What is False-it was a reaction against rationalism of the Enlightenment in Europe.
500
List the three economic problems caused by the South's over-reliance on cotton.
What is 1. cotton depletes the soil. 2. instability of price of cotton on the international market meant bad times when the price was low. 3. South did not industrialize.
500
What was the first University in the US in 1785?
What is the University of Georgia
500

What percentage of White families in the South owned slaves in the mid-1800's?

What is 20%

500
Name the three leaders of the early feminist movement.
What is Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
500
What are the four characteristics of the Transcendentalist Movement?
What is 1. a commitment to self-reliance. 2. a call for a return to nature. 3. skepticism toward religion. 4. a commitment to individualism.
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