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Chapter 7 Section 1, 8 Section 1, Chapter 10 Section 2
What effect did the system of canals roads and railroads that developed between 1815 and 1840 have on the nation as a whole?

Chapter 8 Section 3

What were the causes of the Panic of 1819? How did the Bank of the United States contribute to the panic?

Discuss and explain the Supreme Court decisions and how they show Marshall's political leanings and the effects of the Era of Good Feelings? What are the overall effects on the Indians, the Government and the power of the Supreme Court?

 

Chapter 8 Section 1, Chapter 10 Section 3
During  the rise in manufacturing in the early 19th century, what shifts in manufacturing took place, what business innovations occurred, and what effect did this have on the general distribution of goods in America?

Chapter 10 Section 5
What is the doctrine of separate spheres for women and how did it change their authority in society?

Why was the increasing wealth in America not widely or equitably distributed? What effect did this pattern have on mobility?

Chapter 9  
Section 1
What were the general characteristics of Jacksonian Democracy, its philosophy, and its practice?

What were the the origins of the Calhoun-Jackson split? What effect did it have on the Jackson administration? How did each handle the crisis of states rights vs. national power..

Section 4
What was Jackson's opinion on the Bank of the United States, on money? On what did he base his views? How did he act on these views? What were the short term and long term consequences of these actions?

Section 3

Explain Jackson's view towards Indians and how he handled the situations that arose during his presidency.

 APUSH  Study Guide Chapter 8-9
FACTS: figures, people, and places.   Be prepared to identify, define, describe, and explain the significance of the people, places, and events listed below.
 

1. Transportation revolution
2. John Jacob Astor
3. "mountain men"
4. Kit Carson
5. Jedidiah Smith
6. Jim Beckwourth
7. Five Civilized Tribes
8. Indian Removal Act, 1830
9. Cherokee Nation v. Georgia 
10. Worchester v. Georgia
11. Trail of Tears
12. Black Hawk War
13. Eli Whitney
14. interchangeable parts
15. Panic of 1819
16. Robert Fulton
17. the Livingston-Fulton monopoly
18. Gibbons v. Ogden
19. Erie Canal
20. Samuel Slater
21. The putting out system 
22. Boston Associates, 
23. Waltham and Lowell Mills
24. Alexis de Tocqueville
25. Democracy in America
26. New York's Five Points district
27. Middling classes
28. Individualism
29. Doctrine of separate spheres
30. Andrew Jackson Downing
31. Henry Clay 
32. American system
33. Second American party system
34. Spoils system
35. "Tariff of Abominations" 1828
36. John C. Calhoun 
37. South Carolina Exposition and Protest
38. Compromise of 1833
 


 
 
 

39. Nicholas Biddle 
40. Bank of the United States
41. "pet banks"
42. Specie Circular
43. Log Cabin campaign
44.  "Tippecanoe and Tyler too"
45. Second Great Awakening
46. Burned-Over District
47. Charles G. Finney 
48. William Ellery Channing 
49. Unitarianism
50. Joseph Smith
51. Brigham Young
52.  Mormonism
53. Lyman Beecher
54.  American Temperance Society
55. Horace Mann
56. William Lloyd Garrison
57. The Liberator
58. Frederick Douglass
59. Sojourner Truth
60. James G. Birney
61. Liberty party
62. Angelina and Sarah Grimke
63. John Quincy Adams
64.  "gag rule"
65. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 
66. Lucretia Mott
67. Seneca Falls convention
68.  Declaration of Sentiments
69. "Auburn and Pennsylvania systems"
70. Dorothea Dix
71. Robert Owen and New Harmony
72. Transcendentalists
73. Brook Farm
74. The Dial
75. John Humphrey Noyes 
76. Oneida
 
 


Essential Questions: Think about these questions before, during, and after the reading you do.  If you understand their complexity and feel confident in using information from the text and the supplementary reading in answering these very general questions, you should understand the period well. 
 
 

1. What is the difference between Jeffersonian democracy and Jacksonian democracy?

2. What is the spoils system and how did Jackson justify using it? How did Jackson's enemies describe the spoils system?

3. Was Jacksonian democracy really democratic? Try to answer from your perspective and the perspective of someone in the time period.

4. Discuss the reform movements What inspired these reformers and what were their aims and accomplishments. 

5. What is the connection between religious revival and reform?

6. Discuss the transportation revolution of 1815-1840. What changes took place and what was the impact on the country economically, politically and socially?

7. Discuss the federal government policy toward Native Americans during the period of 1915-1840.

8. What stimulated northeastern manufacturing in the years after the War of 1812 and how was this manufacturing different in New England than in New York or Philadelphia?

9. Discuss the origins and development of the 2nd party system, What did the parties stand for and what impact did their actions have on voter interest and participation in politics?

10. Compare the positions of the Democrats and Whigs on the issues of the proper role of the federal government, protective tariffs, internal improvements and banking.


 
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