Study Guide for APUS History

Study Guide for APUS History Chps. 12-15

I. Terms: Battle of Tippecanoe Battle of New Orleans Treaty of Ghent Panic of 1819 Industrial revolution Francis Cabot Lowell National Road Henry Clay Erie Canal McCulloch v Maryland Monroe Doctrine John Q. Adams Adams-Onis treaty spoils system Indian Removal Act Sequoyah Worcester v GA Trail of Tears John C. Calhoun Daniel Webster Tariff of Abominations “pet banks” Nicholas Biddle Whig Party Martin van Buren Panic of 1837 transcendentalism Ralph Emerson Charles Grandison Finney Henry David Thoreau civil disobedience Brook Farm Dorothea Dix William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass abolition cult of domesticity Lucretia Mott cottage industry Lowell mills Samuel Slater National Trades Union capitalism entrepreneurs John Deere Cyrus McCormick Santa Fe Trail 54 or fight Joseph Smith Brigham Young Clinton’s folly “camp meetings” “burned over district” Millerites Oneidas

II. Questions: 1. What does “Mr. Madison’s War” refer to? 2. What were the causes and effects of the War of 1812? 3. What was Hartford Convention? What were the terms that Northerners were seeking? Why did it fail? 4. Who emerged as heroes during the War of 1812? 5. What were some of the new inventions of the 1800’s? How did these inventions shape/help modernize America? 6. What were the results of the cotton gin? 7. Which invention of Whitney’s was more profound than the cotton gin? 8. What was the American System? Was it successful, why or why not? 9. What does the Era of good feelings refer to? 10. What was the Missouri Compromise? What were the results of the Missouri Compromise? Who orchestrated the Missouri compromise? 11. How did Jackson appeal to the common citizen? 12. What does Jacksonian democracy refer to? 13. What were the effects of the Indian Removal Act? 14. What was the controversy between Andrew Jackson and the Bank of the U.S.? 15. What was the 2nd Great Awakening and which groups of people did it most appeal to? 16. Describe the utopian communities—were they successful, why or why not? Give examples. 17. Discuss the reform movement in terms of education, prisons and asylums. 18. What new groups of immigrants were coming to America in the 1800’s? Where were they likely to settle? 19. How was the average worker treated in the workplace in the 1800’s? 20. Describe the average life of a slave on an urban plantation vs. a rural plantation. 21. What was the temperance movement? What was the justification for this movement? 22. What types of rights did the women’s movement seek? Describe some of their tactics? 23. Describe the conditions of the mills in early America—who worked there?.