After reading Chapter 11, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following:

John Deere's steel-tipped plow and Cyrus McCormick's mechanical reaper

American system of manufacturing, or interchangeable parts

Samuel F. B. Morse

Catharine Beecher, A Treatise on Domestic Economy

contagion theory versus miasm theory

Crawford Long and William T. G. Morton

hydropathy

Sylvester Graham

phrenology

James Gordon Bennett, the New York Herald, and the penny press

Horace Greeley and the New York Tribune

Astor Place riot

minstrel shows

P.T. Barnum and the American Museum

Washington Irving

James Fenimore Cooper

Edgar Allan Poe

American Renaissance

Henry David Thoreau

Ralph Waldo Emerson and "The American Scholar"

transcendentalism

Margaret Fuller

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Walt Whitman

Herman Melville

Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, Frederic Church, and the Hudson River school

lyceums

Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux