Exam 11: Technology, Culture, and Everyday Life

Why did many antebellum Americans turn to practical or popular science? How does that interest demonstrate a basic American optimism about life and society?

What was one of the advantages of the "American system" of manufacturing?

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

How did John Deere's steel-tipped plow change American agriculture?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Margaret Fuller

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. George Catlin

What advance in heating and cooking occurred in antebellum America?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Minstrel shows

In what ways did antebellum Americans express a growing sense of nationalism and an increasing consciousness of the land through their literature and art? Discuss as examples some of the major literary and artistic achievements of the period.

What statement best describes life for the average American farm worker in the antebellum period?

What type of urban housing developed during the early nineteenth century?

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

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

Phrenology - the belief that bumps on the skull reveal an individual's personality - was appealing to Americans because

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: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Hydropathy

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

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