Important People
Dates
Education
Inventions
Stories
100
this person converted over half a million people, in 1834 he had just led a series of successful revivals in cities along the Erie Canal
Who is Charles Grandison Finney
100
Joseph Smith and his brother were murdered and mangled by a mob in Carthage, Illinois.
What is 1844
100
these schools were scarce in the early years of the plublic
What is Tax-supported primary schools
100
In 1844 Morse strung a wire forty miles from Washington to Baltimore and tapped out the historic message, "What hath God Wrought?"
What is the Telegraph
100
William Cullen Bryant wrote this
What is "Thanatopsis"
200
A brilliant and idealistic graduate of Brown University, secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education.
Who is Horace Mann
200
Thomas Paine wrote this in 1794
What is The Age of Reason
200
one room, one stove, one teacher, and often 8 grades
What is the famed little red schoolhouse
200
This machine was invented by Elias Howe in 1846, but perfected by Isaac Singer
What is sewing machine
200
James Fenimore wrote this in 1821
What is The Spy
300
A teacher-preacher of rare power, his first grade-school readers, first published in 1830s sold 122 million copies in the following decades,
Who is Ohioan William H. McGuffey
300
what did the Millerites and Adventists say would happen on October 22, 1844?
What is Christ would come
300
often ill-trained, ill-tempered, and ill-paid.
What is Schoolteachers
300
Workable device for separating the seed from the short-staple cotton fiber.
What is Cotton Gin
300
Walt Whitman wrote this in 1855
What is Leaves of Grass
400
This person designed the University of Virginia.
Who is Thomas Jefferson
400
both the southern Baptists and the southern Methodists had split with their northern brethren over human bondage,
What is 1844-1845
400
Noah Webster created this
What is dictionary
400
Samuel Slater is known for what
What is "Father of the Factory System"
500
This person helped the mentally ill
Who is Dorthea Dix
500
A federal army marched against the Mormons who harassed its lines of supply and railed to die in their last dusty ditch.
What is 1857
500
first University
What is University of Virginia
500
Samuel Slater created this in 1791
What is Americas first textile mill
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