Presidents & Parties
This president believed in the idea of "Manifest Destiny"
Who is James Polk?
The inventor of the first American-built steam locomotive to run on an American Railroad.
Who is Peter Cooper?
The belief that man's reason is above the truth of God's Word.
What is rationalism?
The person credited with inventing the first steamboat.
Who is Robert Fulton?
The president who signed a bill that forced the Indians to move west.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The inventor who was the first to patent a sewing machine that was important for the factory system.
Who is Elias Howe
The term used when something is made invalid; or someone refuses to obey.
What is nullify?
This was an evangelist during the Second Great Awakening. He was a graduate of Yale.
Who is Asahel Nettleton?
The man who lost his job after the treaty he wrote between the United States and Mexico as part of the Mexican Cession was accepted.
Who is Nicholas Trist?
This inventor is credited with developing the idea of making products such as guns and clocks with interchangeable parts as well as the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
What is transcendentalism?
This man invented the steel plow that allowed farmers to easily and smoothly cut through the sticky soil of the Midwest.
Who is John Deere?
The name given to the National Republican Party.
What are Whigs?
In the 1830s this man is invented the reaper. The reaper could cut as much grain in 1 hour as the average farmer could cut in a whole day.
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
A term for identical parts of a product that can be replaced with a new part when broken.
What is interchangeable parts?
This man built the first successful American factory in the 1790s.
Who is Samuel Slater?
The political party of Andrew Jackson and his followers.
What are the Democrats?
This person discovered a way to send messages along a wire by means of electrical pulses. This machine became known as the telegraph.
Who was Samuel Morse?
Because God made no such promise to America in the Bible.
Why Christians could not justify the idea of Manifest Destiny?
The term used for the time period in America where there was a change in the manufacturing process due to many new inventions developed in the late 1700s to early 1800s
What is the Industrial Revolution?