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Name ____________________________________________]

The Advance of learning:

Traditional education means:___________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

Noah Webster: ______________________________________________________________________

Wm. McGuffey: _____________________________________________________________________

Horace Mann _______________________________________________________________________

religion: ____________________

"Free" schools = ____________________________________________________________________

first public High School: ______________________________________________________________

Adult Education: first public __________________ ; + lyceum movement (_____________________)

lyceum: __________________________________________________________________

Famous Authors:

Fireside poets:

1. _______________________________________

2. _______________________________________

3. _______________________________________

4. _______________________________________

Transcendentalists:

1. _______________________________________

2. _______________________________________

3. _______________________________________

Rise of Newspapers due to ________________________________________________________

Music:

Minstrel songs: _______________________________________

examples: 1. _______________________________________ .

2. _______________________________________

3. _______________________________________

Technological Advances:

John Deere: __________________________________________________________________

Cyrus McCormick: ____________________________________________________________

James Watt: _________________________________________________________________

Eli Whitney: _________________________________________________________________

Briefly describe the impact on the South in general and slavery in particular:

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Elias Howe vastly improved the: _________________________________________________________

Robert Fulton: ____________________________________________________________________

impact: _____________________________________________________________________

In New York in 1825, Gov. __________________________ saw the ______________ _________

(nicknamed "_______________ _______________ ) improve transportation both in and through New York State.

• Railroads: first US line built in _____ . By 1850, many railroads used _____________ - _________

track. (This was not universal until the Civil War made it imperative.) Railroads were financed by

private _________________ , _____________ , and the ___________________ ____________ .

• Ships: 1. _______________________________________

2. _______________________________________

3. _______________________________________ (most important)

Telegraph invented by __________________________________________________

Intercontinental communication enabled by the ______________________ ___________________

terms:

investors __________________________________________________________________

laborers ___________________________________________________________________

corporations ________________________________________________________________

stock ______________________________________________________________________

domestic system _____________________________________________________________

factory system ______________________________________________________________

Answer "IDEAS" p. 255 # 1, 4, & 5; also anwer the following: "explain the technological improvements in transportation and communication during this period and their effect on American life."