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Chapter 11: Technology, Culture, and Everyday Life
Section 1: Technology and Economic Growth (pgs 311-319)
Focus Question: What technological improvements increased industrial productivity between
1840-1860?
1. How did technology NOT benefit everyone? (two reasons)
2. Explain the impact and development of the steel-tipped plow and mechanical reaper.
3. What impact did the McCormick reaper have during the Civil War?
4. What inventions were the results of acquiring hand tools by 1840?
5. Which advantages had the American Manufacturing System bring?
6. What had the telegraph been used for and how did Boston change its use?
7. Describe the conditions of railroads by 1850.
8. What were the challenges? Improvements?
9. What city did Chicago replace as the “hub” of shipping goods west to east?
10. Who assumed the responsibility for funding railroads? Why did states reject the
responsibility?
11. How did technological advances improve the lives of consumers? Factory workers? Textile
workers?
12. What advantages did people have during the winter months in comparison to farmers?
13. Why were jobs available to women and children an advantage?
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Agriculture
Technolgy
& Industry
Railroad
Boom
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Technology, Culture, and Everyday Life, 1840-1860
Section 2: The Quality of Life (pgs. 320-323)
Focus Question: How did technology transform the daily lives of middle-class
Americans between 1840-1860?
1. How did middle class and working class homes look different?
2. How did the transportation and industrial revolutions affect American lives?)
3. Why was the use of coal a negative effect of the industrial revolution?
4. What were the challenges for those that did not live near a water source?
5. Describe some of the disgusting conditions in both urban and suburban areas:
6. Which types of diseases were considered epidemics? How did they spread?
7. How did doctors tried to fix the spread of infectious diseases? Why didn’t it work?
8. What were two major developments in medicine during the 1840’s?
9. What was the major step that most doctors missed in surgical rooms?
10. What health problems did “water cure” fix?
11. What did Sylvester Graham suggestion Americans should do with their diets to make
them healthier?
12. What is the study of phrenology AND why was it so popular?
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Conveniences
Inconveniences
Phrenology
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Technology, Culture, and Everyday Life, 1840-1860
Section 3: Democratic Pastimes (pgs. 323-325)
Focus Question: How did American pastimes and entertainment change between
1840-1860?
1. How was the “penny press” created?
2. What made the penny press different that the regular circulars? (3 examples)
3. What were penny press reporters the first to do in reporting news?
4. Who would typically attend theaters? (list people)
5. What were the most popular shows during 1835?
6. How did they portray blacks?
7. What did these shows reinforce in society?
8. What were the major flaws of Barnum?
9. How did Barnum start his career in 1834?
10. What were the original intentions of most museums? Barnum’s American Museums?
11. How did Barnum market the museum to attract Americans?
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Directions: Each table is responsible for creating TWO posters that represent their
assigned topic below. Based on the posters, you will be informing your classmates on
the important information about your topics that will be recorded below.
Newspapers
Theater
Minstrel
Shows
P.T. Barnum
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Technology, Culture, and Everyday Life, 1840-1860
Section 4: The Quest for Nationality in Literature and Art (pgs 326-334)
Focus Question: How did Americans express their distinctiveness in their literature and art?
Directions: Read each section and create three questions AND answers for table rally.
Introduction:
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Roots of the American Renaissance
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Cooper, Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, & Whitman
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Hawthorne, Melville, & Poe
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Literature in the Marketplace
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American Landscape Painting
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Economic &
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Developments
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Cooper
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Fiction & Poetry
Subject of Writing
Titles of Books
Subject of Writing
Titles of Books
Emerson
Thoreau
Fuller
Whitman
Authors
Hawthorne
Melville
Poe