Exam 11: Technology, Culture, and Everyday Life, 1840-1860

In 1851 the a journal editor wrote that in this become "the great agent of civilization and progress, the most powerful instrument for good the world has yet reached." What was he referring to?

By the 1850s where was the center of modern investment firms?

What was one of the changes that transformed American newspapers in the decades before the Civil War?

Who was the most popular dramatist in antebellum America?

What impact did technological changes have on the American worker before the Civil War?

MAP QUESTIONS Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the eastern United States that correctly identifies each of the following: -Richmond, Virginia

Which of the following statements does not accurately describe railroad travel in the antebellum period?

MAP QUESTIONS Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the eastern United States that correctly identifies each of the following: -New Orleans, Louisiana

Who is usually described as the father of mass entertainment in the U.S.?

Which of the following was not one of the causes of nationwide epidemics in the United States during the antebellum period?

Who wrote Woman in the Nineteenth Century?

The popular minstrel show help to shape public perceptions of blacks during the antebellum period because it

What was one of the results of rising urban land values in the early nineteenth-century American city?

MAP QUESTIONS Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the eastern United States that correctly identifies each of the following: -Louisville, Kentucky

MAP QUESTIONS Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the eastern United States that correctly identifies each of the following: -Cincinnati, Ohio

During the pre-Civil War decades, what did most American painters prefer to paint?

MAP QUESTIONS Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the eastern United States that correctly identifies each of the following: -Washington, D.C.

MAP QUESTIONS Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the eastern United States that correctly identifies each of the following: -Chicago, Illinois

Which "theory" proposed that bumps on the skull reveal an individual's personality?

What was one of the purposes of the lyceum lectures?