Inventions
He invented this tool that could improve on the common iron plow.
Who was John Deere?
This doctrine rejected the Trinity.
What was unitarianism?
These organizations had goals of establishing free public education, ending imprisonment for failure to pay debts, establishing a 10-hour workday, and ending child labor.
What were labor unions?
This service delivered mail on horseback between St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California between 1860 and 1861.
What was the Pony Express?
The US opened up new markets on this continent.
What was Asia?
This tool, invented by Eli Whitney, cleaned short-staple cotton quickly, making growing cotton more profitable and driving up the demand for slaves.
What was the cotton gin?
This belief taught that people could find the truth without the authority of Scripture.
What was transcendentalism?
This institution began to be viewed as a grave sin.
What was slavery?
This is a shallow, man-made waterway that connects two bodies of water.
What is a canal?
The Chinese liked to buy this product, which American merchants happily supplied in exchange for tea, spices, silk, and chinaware.
What was ginseng root?
This communication tool made the Pony Express obsolete and was originally created to help train stations communicate with each other and track moving trains.
What was the telegraph?
This person preached to large crowds, but also preached that people are not born with sinful natures.
Who was Charles Finney?
Many abolitionists believed that freed slaves should go to this continent set up new colonies. The present day country of Liberia is one of those former colonies.
What is Africa?
This is the most famous canal and it runs through New York between Lake Erie and the Hudson River in Albany.
What is the Erie Canal?
In 1853, an American fleet led by Commodore Matthew Perry arrived at this Asian nation and used intimidation to open it up for trade.
What was Japan?
Cyrus McCormick invented this machine that would be used for cutting and harvesting grain.
What was a reaper?
This Ivy League school in Connecticut experienced a revival in which 1/3 of the students professed their faith in Christ.
What was Yale?
A convention was held in 1848 to call for women's rights in this city in New York.
What was Seneca Falls?
This new system provided a new way to move people and goods across the growing nation.
What were the railroads?
A blight on potatoes led many people to leave this European country for the US.
What was Ireland?
Isaac Singer was found to have violated Elias Howe's patent for this tool used to make clothing and other products.
What was the sewing machine?
This was where many revivals took place- hundreds of people gathered outside cities in tents for weeks.
What were camp meetings?
This period in church history transformed the lives of cold church members and brought new people to Christ who had never before expressed interest.
What was the Second Great Awakening?
John Fitch brought this water-based transportation invention to Philadelphia.
What was the steamboat?
This immigrant group was generally welcomed when they arrived in the US due to their Protestant background and work ethic.
Who were the Germans?