Multiple Choice
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
The idea that God wanted America to have all the land westward to the Pacific coast
Manifest Destiny
Who invented the reaper?
Cyrus McCormick
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
Why could Christians not justify the idea of Manifest Destiny?
Because God made no such promise to America in the Bible
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
The belief that man's reason is above the truth of God's Word
Rationalism
Who invented the steam locomotive?
Peter Cooper
The National Republican Party came to be known as the _________.
Whigs
What did Elias Howe invent?
the sewing machine
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
To make invalid; to refuse to obey
Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
The person who built on the ideas of others to invent the first steamboat was ___________.
Robert Fulton
An identical part of a product that can be replaced with a new part if broken
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
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
Who invented the sewing machine?
Elias Howe
The political party that Andrew Jackson and his followers created called themselves the ___________.
Democrats
What did Peter Cooper invent?
The steam locomotive
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
The identical part of a product that can be replaced with a new part if broken.
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
John Deere
What did John Deere invent?
The steel plow