Guided Reading 2nd Six Weeks
Pages 226-235
what accounts for the increase in population during this time period?
Regional identities emerge during this time period - describe the regional identities that appear and why
does this phenomenon occur?
What is the typical view of the Indian?
What fraud was committed against Indians in the Ohio Valley?
What is the chief function of cities during this time period?
What accounts for the prosperity during this time period?
Why did trade and commerce stifle industrialization?
What were the specific goals Jefferson wanted to achieve as President?
Describe the qualities that Jefferson a great politician/president.
How did Gallatin and Jefferson handle the national debt?
What were some of the reasons the federalist party was declining after the election of 1800?
Read about the Louisiana Purchase - how did purchasing this piece of real estate conflict with Jefferson's
political ideology
Evaluate TJ's first term.
Reading 236-244
Barbary Pirates
how did Jefferson deal with the pirates?
What were the successes of Jefferson's first term/
describe the Federalist last ditch effort to maintain control (midnight judges)
Marshall was very clever in deciding the case - Marbury v. Madison - describe how he gave the court
extreme power while not causing issues with Republicans
Who are the Quids? What is their political ideology?
What was the Yazoo land controversy?
Fletcher v. Peck ?????
Aaron Burr - what is he up to?
Slave debate once again - what are the arguments in the north and south about ending the slave trade?
What were the provisions of the law that Jefferson signed into law?
Foreign Policy distaster - it is Britain and France - what is going on????
Britain issues Orders in Council? what is it?
Napoleon responds - berlin decree and Milan Decree
we are caught in the middle - how does Jefferson respond?
Embargo Act purpose? reaction of the nation?
Reading 244-250
Why is Britain and France not granting US neutrality rights (freedom of the seas)?
Non-intercourse Act?
Macon’s Bill #2?
Significance of the Battle of Tippecanoe?
Who are the War Hawks?
Why is the US unprepared for war?
What was key to the victory in the Great Lakes region?
Significance of the Battle of New Orleans?
Explain the reason and outcome for the Hartford Convention.
What were the provisions of the Treaty of Ghent?
Reading 262-270
Explain the development of the transportation network and its contributions to a market economy.
Explain the concept “internal improvements”
What factors contributed to the abundance of goods flowing throughout the country?
Impact of the Steam Boat (Robert Fulton).
What FIVE factors contributed to the South’s rise to “King Cotton”?
Explain the emergence of the new financial system- credit is crucial – why?
How did a market economy create new opportunities for industrialists?
Lowell Mill – who what when why
Industrial development in the WEST???
Reading 270-277
How did the “republicans” (party of Jefferson) also contribute to the demise of the federalist party under
Madison and Monroe’s presidency?
Goal of the American System – components of this idea?
Why the change in federal policy over further internal improvements? (Madison and Monroe’s
presidency)
Cause of the Panic of 1819
Why did sectionalism emerge and how did the debate over the Missouri compromise reflect these
differences?
How was nationalism reflected in foreign policy from the Adams-Onis Treaty through the Monroe
Doctrine?
Role of the Marshall Court – know those cases!!!!
Why could JQ Adams not survive the growing sectional and economic divisions in the US?
Reading 287-295
What was the most obvious indicator of the supremacy of democracy?
Why was a two-party system essential to a democratic government?
What changes occurred in nominating a president during this time period?
What accounts for the rise in voter participation?
According to Jacksonians, the major threat to democracy came from what group?
Describe the “corrupt bargain”
Who support and opposed the tariffs?
What did the Tariff of abominations demonstrate?
How did the election of 1828 demonstrate a new era of mass democracy?
Describe the negative campaigning in the election of 1828.
What gave Andrew Jackson the advantage?
Describe the Peggy Eaton Affair.
Summarize the issues surrounding Indian Removal.
Reading 295-305
Describe the differences between Jackson and Calhoun in regards to states rights and nullification.
What was the nullification crisis? What did it reveal about the South?
Explain the criticism of the bank.
Describe Jackson’s argument for vetoing the re-charter of the Bank.
How did Biddle respond to the veto?
Explain the philosophies of the Democrats and Whigs. Who supported the democrats? Whigs?
What economic issues contributed to the Panic of 1837?
Describe Van Buren’s solution. Success or failure.
What were the circumstances surrounding the election of 1840?
What solution did the Whig provide for solving the economic issues?
Describe the programs/philosophies of each political party.
What groups supported the Democrats? Whigs?
How did lifestyles and religion play a role in party choice?
What was Tocqueville’s view of American democracy? Agree or disagree?
Chapter 11
Reading 310-314
Causes of the new wave of religious fevor (2nd Great Awakening)
Similarities and Differences between frontier and northern experience
What were the criticisms of Finney by Beecher?
What is the link between reform movements during this time period and religious movement?
Why was the burned over district so involved in the reforms of the period?
Reading 314-321
What changes occurred in the family?
Distinguish – make sense of “cult of domesticity” “Cult of True Womanhood” “doctrine of two spheres
BIG IDEA! How did this new way of thinking about women both promote and restrain the women’s
movement in the 1840s and 1850s?
Of the various groups of women – affluent, middle class women, single unmarried working class women,
and African American women how did they relate to the ideology? What hardships did they face?
Reforms in the prison system and the treatment of mentally ill?
Reading 321-331
Changes in education?
Abolitionist movement
– what is the connection between revivalism and abolitionism?
-goal of the American colonization Society – why was it a failed program?
-What tensions developed within the movement?
What was the attitude of most Americans during this time period toward slavery and race issues?
-How did various personalities and philosophies divide the abolitionist movement?
BIG IDEA! Was the abolitionist movement of the 1830s and 1840s a success or failure – defend your
answer.
How did the abolitionist movement serve as a catalyst for the women’s movement?
BIG IDEA! Why were women unable to make significant improvements in their position during this time
period?
In what ways could women identify with the plight of African American slaves?
BID IDEA! Why did the Whig party support many of the social and economic reforms and the
“Democratic” party of Jackson oppose many of the reforms?
Radical Ideas
What gave rise to utopian socialism?
- Know the communities that emerged – leaders – beliefs
Transcendentalism
- What is this? Leader? Split in the movement?
Why the movement to perfect society? Skeptics?
Short Answer questions for next test – you will be given three from the list – you will
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How did the election of 1824 bring an end to the Era of Good Feelings?
How did Andrew Jackson represent the rise of the common man?
In what ways did the spoils system support the ideas of Jacksonian Democracy?
Was William Lloyd Garrison a positive or negative force in ending slavery in America?
In what ways were temperance reformers both progressive and repressive in their ideology and
tactics?
How did the development of the Market Revolution give rise to the development of the utopian
societies in the 1830s and 1840s?
Why did the Jacksonians, the people who championed egalitarianism and political equity, oppose
the many of the reforms of the 1830s?
Which US leader up to this date in history (1801-1832) made the greatest contribution to
American nationalism? Defend your answer.
Example - Question: What factors contributed to Indian Removal? It is essential you weave outside
information in your answer.
White settlers in the states of Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama were clamoring over the fertile
land held by the remaining Indian settlements. Prior presidents have been involved in policies that
promoted Indian removal, but the underlying policy towards Indians was assimilation. The Five
Civilized Tribes, located in the region had adopted many cultural values held by white society, but that
was not enough – the white settlers were anxious to expand and coveted their fertile land. The Cherokee
Indians, in particular had adopted a constitution, a written language, and agrarian way of life. The states,
Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama will assert authority over the Indians located within the state
boundaries. Jackson will support states rights in this matter and will advocate an Indian Removal Act
which will give him the authority to purchase land or forcibly remove them. The matter ends up in the
Supreme Court, in Worcester v. Georgia, the court denied the right of states to extend their jurisdiction over
Indian land, but Jackson and his supporters ignored the ruling. The Cherokees were the last hold outs
and eventually forced off their land by the US military on foot which resulted in the Trail of Tears.
Several thousand Indians died on the march as this event was depicted the prejudice and greed of the
time period.
(you could also include: the invention of the cotton gin led to the expansion of cotton production –
discuss how cotton depletes the soil – led to expansion of cotton west and south!)