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100

Who was an evangelist of the Second Great Awakening who graduated from Yale?

A. Robert Fulton

B. Charles Finney

C. Asahel Nettleton

D. Andrew Jackson

C. Asahel Nettleton

100

The idea that God wanted America to have all the land westward to the Pacific coast

Manifest Destiny

100

Who invented the reaper?

Cyrus McCormick

100

The person who used his knowledge of building and operating the machines used in British mills to manage the first successful American factory in the 1790s was ___________.

Samuel Slater

100

Why could Christians not justify the idea of Manifest Destiny?

Because God made no such promise to America in the Bible

200

Which president signed a bill that forced the Indians to move west?

A. Andrew Jackson

B. James Polk

C. John Quincy Adams

D. Zachary Taylor

A. Andrew Jackson

200

The belief that man's reason is above the truth of God's Word

Rationalism

200

  Who invented the steam locomotive?

Peter Cooper

200

The National Republican Party came to be known as the _________.

Whigs

200

What did Elias Howe invent?

the sewing machine

300

Which president believed in the idea of "Manifest Destiny"?

A. Andrew Jackson

B. James Polk

C. John Quincy Adams

D. Zachary Taylor

B. James Polk

300

To make invalid; to refuse to obey

Nullify
300

Who invented the telegraph?

Samuel Morse

300

The person who built on the ideas of others to invent the first steamboat was ___________.

Robert Fulton

300
What is an interchangeable part?

An identical part of a product that can be replaced with a new part if broken

400

What was the period in America where there was a change in the manufacturing process due to inventions developed in the late 1700s to the early 1800s?

A. Second Great Awakening

B. Mexican Cession

C. Manifest Destiny

D. Industrial Revolution

D. Industrial Revolution

400

A philosophy during the late 1830s that taught that truth is found in the feelings and senses rather than in the Word of God.

Transcendentalism

400

Who invented the sewing machine?

Elias Howe

400

The political party that Andrew Jackson and his followers created called themselves the ___________.

Democrats

400

What did Peter Cooper invent?

The steam locomotive

500

Who lost his job after Congress accepted the treaty he wrote between the United States and Mexico as part of the Mexican Cession?

A. James Polk

B. Nicholas Trist

C. Benjamin McCulloch

D. Zachary Taylor

B. Nicholas Trist

500

The identical part of a product that can be replaced with a new part if broken.

Interchangeable part
500

Who invented the cotton gin?

Eli Whitney

500
The inventor of the steel plow was ___________.

John Deere

500

What did John Deere invent?

The steel plow

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