Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Either/Or
100
The first industry to be shaped by the new factory system of manufacturing.
What is textiles?
100
The popular preaching of evangelical revivalists in both the West and eastern cities.
How did the Second Great Awakening derive its religious strength?
100
He was considered the father of the American factory system.
Who is Samuel Slater?
200
The first major improvements in the American transportation system.
What are steamboats and highways?
200
What many of the American utopian experiments of the early 19th Century focused on.
What is communal economics and alternative sexual arrangements?
200
It stressed that God created the world but trusted the moral capacity of human beings to run it.
What is Deism?
300
The most effective long-term solution to trans-oceanic shipping and travel.
What is the steamship?
300
What transcendentalist writers like Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller stressed in their writings and lives.
What is inner truth and individual self-reliance?
300
Polygamy and their cooperative economic practices that ran contrary to American economic individualism.
How did the Mormons arouse hostility from many Americans?
400
America was perceived as the land of opportunity, Europe seemed to be running out of room for its rapidly expanding population, and new technologies made trans-Atlantic travel faster and cheaper.
What contributed to an increased influx of new immigrants to America in the 19th Century?
400
What evangelical preachers like Charles Grandison Finney linked personal religious conversion to.
What is the Christian reform of social problems.
400
The first national part what was the product of an emerging conservation movement that began in the 1830's.
What is Yellowstone?
500
A rise in the gap between rich and poor.
What is a major effect of industrialization?
500
What the Seneca Falls Convention called for that launched the modern women's rights movement.
What is equal rights, including the right to vote?
500
It helped fuel further development of the West, it shortened travel time and lowered costs, and if facilitated trade with interior and southern regions.
What was the significance of the steamboat?
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