Chapter 14: Forging National Economy
questions and answers
Samuel Slater - correct answer-He memorized the way that the British made machines and
he brought the idea to America. He made our first cotton spinning machine.
Cyrus McCormick - correct answer-United States inventor and manufacturer of a mechanical
harvester (1809-1884)
Eli Whitney - correct answer-United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin
(1765-1825)
Carl Shurz - correct answer-German immigrant later became a general in Union Army,
senator from Missouri, secretary in administration of Rutherford B Hayes
Robert Fulton - correct answer-American inventor who designed the first commercially
successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815)
Samuel F. B. Morse - correct answer-an American painter of portraits and historic scenes,
the creator of a single wire telegraph system, and co-inventor, with Alfred Vail, of the Morse
Code
DeWitt Clinton - correct answer-United States politician who as governor of New York
supported the project to build the Erie Canal (1769-1828)
Industrial Revolution - correct answer-the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial
nation
limited liability - correct answer-the liability of a firm's owners for no more than the capital
they have invested in the firm
transportation revolution - correct answer-rapid growth in the speed and convenience of
transportation; in the United States this began in the early 1800s
nativism - correct answer-a policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones
cult of domesticity - correct answer-the ideal woman was seen as a tender, self-sacrificing
caregiver who provided a nest for her children and a peaceful refuge for her husband, social
customs that restricted women to caring for the house
ecological imperialism - correct answer-an aggressive and often heedless explotiation of the
west. settlers often killed species to the point of extinction, and they farmed the lands dry. it
was a hard land to live on, and ecological imperialism was sometimes the only way to
survive and make a profit.
questions and answers
Samuel Slater - correct answer-He memorized the way that the British made machines and
he brought the idea to America. He made our first cotton spinning machine.
Cyrus McCormick - correct answer-United States inventor and manufacturer of a mechanical
harvester (1809-1884)
Eli Whitney - correct answer-United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin
(1765-1825)
Carl Shurz - correct answer-German immigrant later became a general in Union Army,
senator from Missouri, secretary in administration of Rutherford B Hayes
Robert Fulton - correct answer-American inventor who designed the first commercially
successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815)
Samuel F. B. Morse - correct answer-an American painter of portraits and historic scenes,
the creator of a single wire telegraph system, and co-inventor, with Alfred Vail, of the Morse
Code
DeWitt Clinton - correct answer-United States politician who as governor of New York
supported the project to build the Erie Canal (1769-1828)
Industrial Revolution - correct answer-the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial
nation
limited liability - correct answer-the liability of a firm's owners for no more than the capital
they have invested in the firm
transportation revolution - correct answer-rapid growth in the speed and convenience of
transportation; in the United States this began in the early 1800s
nativism - correct answer-a policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones
cult of domesticity - correct answer-the ideal woman was seen as a tender, self-sacrificing
caregiver who provided a nest for her children and a peaceful refuge for her husband, social
customs that restricted women to caring for the house
ecological imperialism - correct answer-an aggressive and often heedless explotiation of the
west. settlers often killed species to the point of extinction, and they farmed the lands dry. it
was a hard land to live on, and ecological imperialism was sometimes the only way to
survive and make a profit.
