Review Sheet for AP Test over Sectionalism in Antebellum America, Age of Jackson, Era of Reform (October 23)
October 9
Commonwealth v. Hunt
Factors limited improvement for workers
Causes of the surge in immigration from 1830 to 1860
Characteristics of Irish immigration
Causes of Nativism in the United States during the mid-1800s & the Rise of the Know Nothing Party
October 10
Impact of Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin & "King Cotton" & the growth of the Peculiar Institution"
Resistance of slaves
Factors that led to the increase of Free African Americans
Southerners Defense of slavery
October 11
The Changing Western Frontier
Political changes & reforms during the Jacksonian Years that led more involvement of the common man during Jacksonian Democrarcy
Party Nominating Conventions & the Impact of the Anti-Masons Convention in 1832
Spoils System & Rotation of Officeholders
October 12
The 1824 Election and the Breakdown of the old congressional caucus system
The Corrupt Bargain
Tariff of 1828 (Tariff of Abominations)
The Revolution of 1828 & the Rise of Jacksonian Democracy
October 15
Maysville Road Veto
Kitchen Cabinet
Peggy Eaton Controversy
Indian Removal Act & Trail of Tears
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia in 1831
Worcester v. Georgia in 1832
John Calhoun's Nullification Theory
Webster-Hayne Debate over the Tariff Issue
The Jackson vs. Calhoun Controversy at Jefferson's Birthday Celebration
Jackson's Force Act
Why Jackson did not like the Bank of the United States
The 1832 Election and the Bank Issue
October 16
Differences between the Whig Party and the Democrat Party during the 1830s
Jackson's Specie Circular
Causes of the Panic of 1837
The 1840 Election "Log Cabin and Hard Cider"
John Tyler's Controversial Presidency and why he was kicked out of the Whig Party
October 18
Religious Movements during the 2nd Great Awakening: (Revivalism in New York, Baptists, Methodists, Millennialism, Mormons)
Transcendentalists: (Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau…Brook Farm)
Communal Experiments: (Shakers, New Harmony, Oneida community)
October 19
Causes & Impact of the Temperance Movement (Different Temperance Organizations)
Movement for Public Asylums (Dorothea Dix & Mental Hospitals, Schools for blind and deaf persons, Prisons)
Idea of Public Education & Horace Mann's Free Common Schools
Cult of Domesticity
Origins of the women's rights movement (Grimke Sister, Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Stanton)
Seneca Falls Convent. & "Declaration of Sentiments" & origins of women's rights movement (Grimke Sisters, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Stanton)
Antislavery Movement & the American Colonization Society
William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator and the American Antislavery Society
Black Abolitionists like Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth)
Violent Abolitionism: David Walker, Henry Garnet's speech, and the impact of Nat Turner's slave revolt)