Chapter 10
A Frenchman who traveled through the United States between 1831-1832 and wrote about American democracy
Alexis de Tocqueville
Before the War of 1812, the ... .... provided the cheapest transportation routes for people and goods.
natural waterways
Inventor of the telegraph
Samuel F.B. Morse
Most whites and free blacks moved west because they ....
believed better opportunities awaited them there
Who said, "my reason teaches me that land cannot be sold"?
Black Hawk, a Sauk ( or Sacs) warrior.
North and South were more similar than dissimilar until the ...
change in economic development in the North after the War of 1812
The first major innovation that improved transportation was the ...
steamboat
In 1844, Massachusetts mill women formed the Lowell Female Reform Association and demanded a ... ...
ten-hour day rather than fourteen-hour days
This partly mythical figure single-handedly overpowered bears and Indians, adopted wilderness ways but at the same time became the pathfinder for civilization
Daniel Boone
Patented a horse-drawn reaper in 1834
Cyrus McCormick
In terms of reforms, women and men in Northeast and Midwest organized to end the abuses of ...
prostitution and alcohol
The Erie Canal runs between
Albany and Buffalo
A labor system instituted by mill owners where entire families were hired and lodged in boardinghouses. men worked farm plots near the factories while their wives and children worked in the mills.
The Rhode Island (or Fall river ) plan
This enterprising merchant helped to chart the Santa Fe Trail running between Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
William Becknell.
Led his people to their "promised land" in the Great Salt Lake valley in 1847
Brigham Young
Even after the War of 1812, the The United States was still financially connected to ...
Europe and especially Great Britain
The railroad era in the United States began in 1830 when Peter Cooper's locomotive named ... ... first steamed along 13 miles of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad track.
Tom Thumb
Throughout the United States wealth was concentrating with relatively small number of people. By 1860, the top 5% of American families owned more than
half of the nations wealth.
When was the transcontinental railroad completed?
1869
In 1851 wrote to his wife that "California is the best country in the world to make money. It is also the best place for black folks on the globe."
Peter Brown
During the War of 1812, trade with European nations halted. This led entrepreneurs to invest more in ... ...
domestic factories
One significant issue which prevented development of a national railroad system in the early 1800's was
the lack of common standard for the width of tracks.
The most rapid urbanization in American occurred between .. and ... .
1820 and 1860
The notion that the US was an ethnic and cultural melting pot could be challenged because
migrants in the Midwest settled in ethnic communities or with people of similar religious values and affiliations. This pattern resembled more an ethnic and cultural checkerboard.
Between 1821 and 1860, the Indian population of California fell from .... to .....
200,000 to 30,000