Chapter 11 Names/Terms
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40 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 the practical application of science to improving life | technology |
| useless in battle but good for duels | revolvers |
| inventor of the steel plow; halved the labor required to clear prairie for planting. | John Deere |
| Midwest's major cash crop | Wheat |
| inventor of mechanical reaper; harvested grain 7x faster with half the labor force | Cyrus McCormick |
| droppings of sea birds used as fertilizer | guano |
| identical components made by machine tools, speeding manufacturing process; by Eli Whitney | interchangeable parts |
| (one of the Connecticut Firms) began mass producing the revolving pistol. | Smith & Wesson |
| dramatized technology's democratic promis | railroad |
| had more track than any other railroad in 1855; made money by haling cargo and by real estate speculation | Illinois Central Railroad |
| helped made Wall Street the nation's greatest capital market | Railroad boom |
| home to Irish immigrants and free blacks | tenements |
| first national epidemic that followed shipping routes | cholera epidemic of 1832 |
| first to employ anesthesia during surgery | Crawford Long |
| successfully uses anesthesia | William Morton |
| a poet who published a paper on how unclean hands spread puerperal fever | Oliver Holmes |
| "water cure"-to cleanse and rejuvenate the system | Hydropathy |
| popularized dietary changes as a way to better health | Sylvester Graham |
| created the scientific fad phrenology | Franz Grall |
| became chief promoters of phrenology | Orson and Lorenzo Fowler |
| publishing house by Orson Fowler that marketed phrenology books | Fowlers and Wells |
| one of the founders of the penny press | James Bennett |
| greatest showman of the century | P.T. Barnum |
| one of the many antebellum popularizers of black minstrelsy | Dan Bryant |
| Inventer of the Singer Machine-a sewing machine that did continuous stitching | Isaac Singer |
| wrote songs for minstrel shows reflecting white's notions of how black sang | Stephen Foster |
| British author whose historical novels became widely popular in the U.S. | Sir Walter Scott |
| author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" | Harriet Stowe |
| pioneer in development of a national literature with distinctively American themes | James Cooper |
| poet/didn't publish her work | Emily Dickinson |
| most popular dramatist | Shakespeare |
| created "tales of sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle" | Irving |
| popular figure in Cooper's novels | Natty |
| invented the sewing machine | Howe |
| transmitted the 1st telegraph message | Morse |
| invented the revolving pistol | Colt |
| created the couse of empire; amazing artist | Cole |
| painted numerous Native Americans in their "savage" state | Caitlin |
| designed NYC's Central Park to look like undisturbed countryside | Olmsted; Vanx |
| transcendentalism reinforced her feminist ideas; wrote "women in the 19th century" | Fuller |
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