Inventions
Who invented the steel plow?
John Deere
What did Samuel Morse invent?
The telegraph
Which president believed in Manifest Destiny?
James Polk
What was the first cartoon to ever air on television?
Willie the Worm
Who lost their job after writing a treaty at the end of the Mexican War?
Nicholas Trist
Violet! (Think ROY G BIV)
Who invented the reaper?
Cyrus McCormick
Which president signed a bill that forced the Native Americans to move west?
Andrew Jackson
what does it mean to nullify?
To make invalid or refuse to obey
Which president instigated the Mexican War?
What did Elias Howe invent?
What is the largest fish in the ocean?
a Whale Shark!
What political party was created by Andrew Jackson?
What was the name of the philosophy that taught truth is found in feeling and in the senses?
transcendentalism
What was the name of the general who was used to help start the Mexican War?
Zachary Taylor
Who invented the steam locomotive? Who used that engine to then create steamboats?
Peter Cooper invented the locomotive, and then Robert Fulton used that principle to create the steamboat
What did Eli Whitney create?
The cotton gin
The National Republic Party was also known as __________.
The Whigs
What was the period in America with a great change in the industrial processes due to many new inventions? Who helped manage the first successful factory in America?
The Industrial Revolution. The first factory was ran by Samuel Slater
What is the common name for a "Canis lupus familiaris"?
a dog!
What do you call an identical part of a product that can be used to replace a piece if it is broken?
an interchangeable part
Who was an evangelist of the Second Great Awakening that graduated from Yale?
Asahel Nettleton
What makes the mexican jumping bean jump?
The larvae inside the beans wakes up with warmth and light and begins to move or "jump"
What is rationalism?
The belief that man's reason is above the truth of God's word.
Why could Christians NOT justify the idea of Manifest Destiny?
God made no such promise to America in the Bible