Chapter 13 Rise of a Mass Democracy
1. Explain the “corrupt bargain” of 1824.
2. Describe President John Quincy Adams.
3. In what ways did Adam’s honesty hurt him?
4. What was some of the mudslinging that went on in the election of 1828?
5. Where did Jackson’s political support come from?
6. Describe President Jackson uniqueness.
7. What is the spoils system and how did Jackson use it?
8. What was so “abominable” about the Tariff of 1828?
9. What did South Carolina do in response to the Tariff and what were some of their reasons?
10. What was Jackson’s response?
11. How did Clay end the nullification crisis?
12. Who were the “Five Civilized Tribes” and what made them “civilized”?
13. What was the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and its consequences?
14. What was Jackson’s problem with the Bank of the United States?
15. Explain the Bank War of 1832—include winners and losers.
16. What was the Anti-Masonic party and what was its role in the Election of 1832?
17. How did Jackson finally kill the BUS and what was the impact on the economy?
18. Who joined the Whig party?
19. Describe the panic of 1837 and proposed solutions.
20. Who invited American’s to Texas and what kind of people were supposed to come?
21. What were the issues between the Texans and the Mexicans?
22. What happened at the Alamo?
23. Who helped Texas defeat Santa Anna?
24. Why was Texas not granted annexation when first proposed in 1837?
25. What helped Harrison win the election of 1840?
26. What two major changes in American politics were demonstrated by the election of 1840? Chapter 14 Reading Guide
1. Describe what was life was like for most pioneers in the West.
2. How did the wild, unspoiled character of the land define America’s uniqueness? What did it inspire?
3. Describe the reasons for and impact of urbanization.
4. Discuss the Irish immigrants: where did they live, how did they live and what was the reaction of
Americans?
5. How did Irish immigrants affect (influence) the United States? (Social, economic, political influences)
6. Discuss the German immigrants: where did they live, how did they live and what was the reaction of
Americans?
7. How did German immigrants affect (influence) the United States? (social , economic, political influences)
8. What political party was created by the nativist movement? What were the goals of the party?
9. Why was the Industrial Revolution so slow to catch on in America? List at least 4 reasons.
10. Why was Samuel Slater considered the “Father of the Factory System” in America?
11. What impact did Eli Whitney have on the cotton industry?
12. Describe the different roles the North and the South had in the cotton industry.
13. What impact did inventions have on American manufacturing (know at least one)?
14. How did the factory system change society? Be specific.
15. How did technological advances improve agricultural production?
16. What transportation innovations change the economy (be sure to know TWO)?
17. What impact did transportation innovations have on sectional relationships?
18. What was the market revolution?
19. What legal questions did it raise? Chapter 15 Reading Guide
1. What were the doctrines and beliefs of Deism? 2. What was the Unitarian movement and who did it appeal to? 3. Why is the Second Great Awakening considered to be one of the most momentous episodes in the history of American Religion? 4. What were the main events of the Second Great Awakening? 5. Why was revivalist preacher Charles Grandison Finney so well known? 6. How did the Second Great Awakening bring about the feminization of religion? Explain what that is. 7. Why was Western New York called the Burned-Over District? 8. What is the Utah connection to the Second Great Awakening? 9. How and why did education change during this time including teacher training? 10. How did higher education change? 11. How did women’s education change and what impact did Catherine Beecher have? 12. How did the Second Great Awakening influence reform movements that followed in its wake? 13. How did the criminal justice system change during the era of reform? 14. Who is Dorothea Dix and what was her contribution to this era of reform? 15. What is temperance and why did this reform movement emerge? 16. According to some, in what ways was alcohol hurting society? 17. What is the cult of domesticity? 18. How did women begin stepping out of their “separate sphere” at home and challenging traditional roles in society? 19. Why and how did women begin to demand the right to vote? 20. What were the contribution of the following to women’s rights? Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Cady Stanton
21. What is the Seneca Falls Conference and why is it important? 22. What were Utopian societies trying to accomplish? Use Oneida Community as your example. 23. How did art change during this time and what role did the Hudson River School play? 24. What was the Hudson River School and what was it most known for? 25. Why is the literature written during this considered to be “distinctly” American? 26. Choose two of the following authors and list their famous works and philosophies. Washington Irving Louisa May Alcott James Fenimore Cooper Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Edgar Allan Poe John Greenleaf Whittier Nathaniel Hawthorne James Russell Lowell Herman Melville Oliver Wendell Holmes
27. What is transcendentalism? 28. What were the major views of the following transcendentalists and what did they write? Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Walt Whitman 29. Why is George Bancroft considered the father of American History? Chapter Sixteen: Reading Guide 1. What invention in 1793 led to the dominance of cotton in the South? 2. Both southern ______and Northern ______profited from slavery and the cotton trade. 3. In what way did Great Britain condone American slavery? 4. In what ways was Cotton King and how did the south believe the British would react to a war between the North and the South? 5. Why was the south referred to as an aristocracy? 6. What were some of the economic disadvantages of “King Cotton?” 7. How did the south end up the most Anglo-Saxon section of the nation? 8. What % of white southerners owned slaves or belonged to a slave owning family? 9. Why did the non-slave owning whites in the south defend slavery so fiercely? 10. What role did the mountain whites play in the Civil War? 11. Who was William T. Johnson and what is memorable about him? 12. How were freed blacks treated in the North? 13. What fact distinguished slavery in America from other New World societies? 14. Describe how slavery varied within the South. 15. Why was education specifically prohibited for slaves? 16. In what ways did slaves resist without rebelling? 17. List some slave rebellions of the early 1800’s and what they had in common. 18. What were some of the solutions to the “peculiar institution”? 19. Using a Venn-diagram compare and contrast William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass 20. In what ways did the southern states react to the abolitionism of the North? 21. How did southerners defend slavery? 22. What negative reaction to abolition existed in the North? Chapter 17 Reading Guide
1. How were Clay and Webster foiled in their attempt to run Harrison’s presidency?
2. Tyler was a Whig in name only. Explain.
3. What specific acts did Tyler do to upset the Whig extremists of his party? 4. What happened to the Caroline and to the Creole and how do they add to British-US tensions?
5. What was the “Aroostook War” all about and what ends the controversy?
6. What is Mexico’s opinion of the Lone Star Republic?
7. Why did Britain support an independent Texas?
8. Why was Texas formally invited to become the 28th state by joint resolution and not by treaty?
9. What were the British and American claims to Oregon?
10. Who were the two major candidates and their parties for the election of 1844?
11. What is manifest destiny?
12. What is a “dark horse” candidate?
13. List and explain the first three points of Polk’s presidential plan.
14. Who owned California in 1845 and who lived there?
15. What was the boundary dispute between Texas and Mexico?
16. How much was President Polk willing to pay for California?
17. Polk’s war message to Congress declares that despite “all our efforts” to avoid a clash there had been the shedding of “American blood upon the American soil”. What is wrong with this statement?
18. Summarize the Mexican-American War and the major leaders of the war (both sides).
19. What were the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848).
20. How much did Polk arrange to pay Mexico after the war was over and what is intriguing about the amount?
21. What did the U.S. gain from the war in Mexico, besides territory?
22. How did the War with Mexico influence relations between the United States and Latin America as a whole?