CLEP U.S. History I 077: Religion, Science, and Education
U.S. History to 1877 | Chapter 14 | Lesson 14.4 Antebellum Americans produced knowledge through institutions that sometimes competed and often overlapped. Churches founded colleges, missionary societies, and print networks. State and local governments expanded tax-supported common schools. Voluntary associations sponsored lectures and libraries. Surveyors, physicians, inventors, naturalists, and agricultural improvers collected observations that promised […]
CLEP U.S. History I 076: Popular Print, Minstrelsy, and Contested Mass Culture
U.S. History to 1877 | Chapter 14 | Lesson 14.3 The same transportation and production changes that expanded markets for cloth and farm goods expanded markets for information. Faster presses reduced printing costs. Canals, railroads, and postal routes moved newspapers and books farther. Urban literacy and advertising enlarged audiences. Editors sold inexpensive newspapers to mass […]
