Study Guide – Unit Four: The Jacksonian Era and the Age of Reform

Date Due	Assignments
Thurs., Oct. 8	1. Read p. 260-281 (to the Benevolent Empire) 2. Answer questions 1 – 3
Fri., Oct. 9	1. Read p. 281 - 287 AND 291 - 297 2. Answer questions 4 -7
Mon., Oct. 12	1. Read p. 298 to the top of p. 306 2 Read p. 265 in the Readings book 3.Download from my site and read the excerpts from Daniel Webster’s speech and Jackson’s Proclamation to the People of South Carolina 4. Answer questions 8 - 12
Tues., Oct. 13	1. Read p. 306 - 316 2. Answer questions 13- 18
Mon., Oct. 19	1. Read p. 319 - 332 2. Answer questions 19 - 20
Tues., Oct. 20	1. Read p. 332 - 339 2. Read the excerpts from William Lloyd Garrison and H. Manly 3. Answer questions 21 - 25
Weds., Oct. 21	1. Read p. 374 – 380 2. Read the packet of materials on the women’s movement. Be prepared to discuss in class. 3. Answer questions 26 – 31 (The last questions can be answered as margin notes on the reading, but you can use the questions as guidance on what to look for as you read them.)
Thurs., Oct. 22	1. Reformers Roundtable Assignment due today 2. Presidency Charts due before 8:30 am today
Mon., Oct. 26	DBQ Due
Tues., Oct. 27	Test

Reading Questions

1.	Make a bullet-point list summarizing the information on the rise of the factory system, the textile industry, and the labor movement.
2.	How did the economy change in this period? Include information on the market revolution, the transportation revolution, and urbanization
3.	Briefly summarize the information on the changes in social classes.
4.	What was the connection between reform, religious revivalism and the new business ethic?
5.	What was the impact of the increased immigration in this period on the United States?
6.	Make a bullet-point list of the information on the rise of political parties.
7.	Summarize the information on politics: the election of 1824, the American System, the Tariff of 1828, and the election of 1828, AND the Spoils System,
8.	Summarize the following aspects of Jackson’s presidency: Kitchen Cabinet, veto of the National (or Maysville) Road Bill, the crisis over the Tariff of Abominations, and the war over the Bank. Be sure to include the impact of these actions.
9.	What reasons did Jackson give for vetoing the recharter of the Second Bank of the U.S.?
10.	Schoolchildren used to have to memorize Webster’s speech. The least you can do is read the conclusion. Summarize in one sentence his argument.
11.	What were Jackson’s arguments concerning South Carolina’s threat to nullify the Tariff of Abominations?
12.	Summarize the information on the following: the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Black Hawk War, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, Worcester v. Georgia, and the Trail of Tears
13.	How did the Taney Court differ from the Marshall Court? What was the significance of the cases of Charles River Bridge and Dartmouth College?
14.	How did states apply Jacksonian principles on the state level?
15	Make a bullet-point list of the information on the Whig Party.
16.	Summarize the information on the beginnings of the labor movement and the Panic of 1837.
17.	Summarize the information on Van Buren’s presidency and the election of 1840.
18.	Reviewing what you’ve learned about Andrew Jackson, make a list of how he strengthened the presidency. Also, list the ways in which politics changed in this period.
19.	Summarize the main ideas of transcendentalism. Who were the other writers associated with this movement? What was Brook Farm?
20.	Summarize the information on the various other communalist religious movements of this period: the Shakers, Fourierist movement, Oneida Community, and the Mormons
21	How did popular culture in the cities reflect of the prejudices of the period? What is nativism?
22.	Identify the following: American Colonization Society, David Walker, Nat Turner, William Lloyd Garrison, Theodore Dwight Weld and the Grimké sisters, American Anti-Slavery Society, and the Underground Railroad.
23.	Who were the opponents of abolitionism and what were the methods they used?
24.	What are the arguments that William Lloyd Garrison used? (You can answer this in margin notes.)
25.	List the arguments that H. Manly makes to defend slavery. (You can answer this in margin notes.)
26.	What was the role of women in this era?
27.	Identify the following: Dorothea Dix, Horace Mann, Catherine Beecher, the Grimke sisters, Sojourner Truth, Seneca Falls Convention, and Susan B. Anthony
28.	What does James Fenimore Cooper argue about the proper role of women? (You can answer this in margin notes.)
29.	What arguments does Catharine Beecher make about the proper role of women? (You can answer this in margin notes.)
30.	As you read through the Declaration of Sentiments from Seneca Falls, try to answer why Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott used the Declaration of Independence as a model. How does the list of complaints and Stanton’s response to challenges to the Women’s Rights Movement answer the arguments that Catharine Beecher and other critics were making? (You can answer this in margin notes.)
31.	What can you learn about attitudes towards women from reading the reactions to the Seneca Falls Convention? (You can answer this in margin notes.)

Identifications

Jacksonian Democracy Election of 1824 Corrupt Bargain Election of 1828 Jacksonian Democracy Extension of franchise Spoils System National Republicans Caucus System National Nominating Conventions Kitchen cabinet Peggy Eaton affair Whigs Maysville Road Veto Election of 1832 John C. Calhoun Tariff of Abominations Nullification Daniel Webster Webster-Hayne Debate SC Exposition and Protest Jefferson Day dinner	Compromise Tariff of 1833 Force Bill Martin Van Buren Henry Clay Nicholas Biddle Second Bank of the U.S Bank Recharter Bill Veto Message Pet Banks Roger B. Taney Charles River Bridge Co. v. Warren Bridge Co.Indian Removal Act of 1830 Black Hawk War Worcester v. Georgia Trail of Tears Log Cabin Campaign of 1840 Webster-Ashburton Treaty 1842 The Economic Revolution Samuel Slater Francis Cabot Lowell Waltham Plan	Lowell, Massachusetts Eli Whitney Cotton Gin Interchangeable Parts National Trades Union Working Men’s Parties Commonwealth v. Hunt Labor Theory of Value National Road Erie Canal Robert Fulton Transportation Revolution Samuel F.B. Morse Henry Clay’s American System Nativism Know Nothing Party Specie Circular Panic of 1837
Intellectual Movements Transcendentalism Romanticism Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Walden “On Civil Disobedience” Margaret Fuller The Dial Louisa May Alcott James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans Herman Melville, Moby Dick Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, The Blithedale Romance Brook Farm Edgar Allan Poe Washington Irving Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville Lyceum Movement Hudson River school of art Religious Movements Millennialism Charles G. Finney The Second Great Awakening Millerism “The burned-over district”	Mormons or Church of Latter-Day Saints Joseph Smith The Book of Mormon Brigham Young Utah Brook Farm New Harmony Robert Owen John Humphrey Noyes Oneida Community Mother Ann Lee Stanley Shakers William Ellery Channing Unitarian Church African Methodist Episcopal Church Women’s and Reform Movements Republican Mothers Godey’s Lady’s Book Catherine Beecher “Cult of True Womanhood” Dorothea Dix Treatment of the Insane Horace Mann Noah Webster The McGuffey Reader American Temperance Movement Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Cady Stanton	Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions Susan B. Anthony Prison Reform Movement Slavery and Abolition American Colonization Society Liberia Cotton Gin Gag Rule John Quincy Adams William Lloyd Garrison The Liberator American Antislavery Society Theodore Weld American Slavery as It Is Angelina and Sarah Grimke Nat Turner’s Rebellion David Walker An Appeal to Colored Citizens of the World Sojourner Truth Gabriel Prosser William Still Denmark Vesey Frederick Douglass Prigg v. Pennsylvania Free Soil Party Elijah P. Lovejoy’s murder Liberty Party Underground Railroad

Questions and Themes for Unit Four: The Jacksonian Era

Economic Changes

o What elements contributed to the economic growth of the U.S. during this period?

o What were the reasons for increased urbanization during this period? What were the changes that resulted from that expansion?

o What was the impact of economic change and urbanization during the first half of the 19^th century on the family and the role of women?

o What was the impact of increased immigration on American society and politics?

o What technological advances were made in this period and how did those advances alter American society?

o How and why did the life of the working class change in this period?

o What effect did the revolution in transportation have on American society, economics, and politics? Did the changes in transportation increase or decrease sectionalism?

The Jackson Presidency

o How was democracy broadened during this period? Who benefited and who didn’t?

o Was this truly the ‘Age of the Common Man?’ Why or why not?

o To what extent did Jacksonian Democracy reflect the social and economic developments in the nation?

o What were the crises during this period? How were each resolved?

o How did Jackson extend the power of the presidency?

o What signs are there of developing sectionalism during this period?

o What was the status of minorities during this period?

o Compare and contrast Jacksonian Democracy and Jeffersonian Democracy.

o What issues divided the Whigs and Democrats?

The Age of Reform

o How did the philosophy of the Transcendentalists encourage people to reform their own society?

o To what extent did religious and reform movements of the period extend democratic ideals?

o How did these early 19^th century reform movements for abolition and women’s rights illustrate strengths and weaknesses of democracy in America?

o What is similar and different in the various religious movements of the time? What accounts for the increasing interest in religious experiences and expression?

o Compare and contrast the First and Second Great Awakenings.

o What kinds of institutions and cultural developments established a national identity?

o To what extent did a truly American culture develop in this period?