United States History  Quiz  Chapter 13            Name: _____________________________________ Score:
Teacher: Mr. Cap              Education and Science in the 1st 1/2 of the 19th Century

1. In the Orin Fowler quote on page 230, what has disappeared?  ____________________________  

2.  List three aspects of  Education in the 1800's ______________________________________________

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3.  What was said about Noah Webster's Blue-Backed Speller? __________________________________

4.  Who introduced the idea of "free" schools in Massachusetts? __________________________________

_____ 5.   North Carolina                                   a.  first college for women only

_____ 6.  Oberlin College                                   b. organizations that set up libraries around the U.S.

_____ 7.   Wesleyan College                               c. first state college

_____ 8.   Lyceums                                            d.   first coeducational college
 
Write one work that each of these authors wrote.

    James Fenimore Cooper ________________________ Washington Irving  _______________________

    William Cullen Bryant   _______________________  Edgar Allan Poe   _______________________

    Nathaniel Hawthorne  _______________________  Herman Melville  _______________________

    Henry David Thoreau  _______________________ George Bancroft   _______________________

    Francis Parkman   _______________________       Fireside Poets  ___________________________

    Horace Greeley   ___________________________

 Find each American artist and song writer listed below and find one famous work for each.

    Gilbert Stuart  ___________________________ Charles Willson Peale  _______________________

   Edward Hicks  ___________________________  Samuel F. B. Morse  _______________________

9.  List three things Private ownership of land gave pioneers. ___________________________________

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10.  How did the steel plow work? ______________________________________________________

11.  Who invented the cotton gin? _______________________  Sewing machine? _________________

 12.  The  Erie Canal linked the ________________________ River with Lake ____________________

13.  Who developed the first successful steamboat called the "Clairmont"? _________________________

14.  The Clairmont traveled from New York City up the Hudson River to the city of Albany.  This journey of

__________ miles in took ______ hours normally  took _____________ weeks by horse wagon

15.   Samuel Clemens' pen name was  ___________________ who wrote?_____________ , ___________ 

16.   The  Steam locomotive was also known as the ________________________.

17.  How did railroads effect water transportation and the west? __________________________________

                                                               18.  What is the picture to the left called? ________________________

                                                                19.  Who invented it? ___________________

                                                                20.  What was the code used to communicate? ____________________

                                                                                        21.  What was the name of the tool pictured left?

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                                                                                        22.  Who invented it? ___________________________

                                                                                             23.  What type of ship is pictured to the left? 

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