Study Guide - Unit Four: Jackson and the Age of Reform

 

Due Date

Assignment

Weds., Oct. 5

1. Read p. 198 – 208

2. Answer questions 1 - 7

Thurs., Oct. 6

1. Read p. 209 – 213

2. Answer questions 7 - 8

Fri., Oct. 7

1. Read p. 214 – 219

2. Read Jackson’s Veto Message

3. Answer questions  9 - 10

Mon., Oct. 10

1. Read p. 224 – 228

2. Read the handout on Perfectionism

3. Answer questions 11 and 12

Tues., Oct. 11

1. Read p. 229 – 234

2. Read the handout on Pro-Slavery Arguments

3. Answer questions 13 - 15

Mon., Oct. 17

1. Read p. 235 – 239

2. Read the handout on women’s issues

3. Answer questions 16- 19

Tues., Oct. 18

1. Read p. 240 – 245

2. Answer question 20

Weds., Oct. 19

Reformers Roundtable

Thurs., Oct. 20

Review for the test

Fri., Oct. 21

Test

         

Reading Questions

 

Answer the following. 

 

1.

Identify the roles of Eli Whitney, Samuel Slater, and the Lowell factory in the Industrial Revolution in America..

2.

How did the agricultural systems develop differently in the North and the South?  

3.

What were the main goals of the American System and how were the elements of Clay’s plan (tariff, Second National Bank, and Internal improvements) intended to help the U.S. achieve those goals?

4.

Summarize the rulings in the four Supreme Court cases discussed on pages 204 –205. How did these cases increase national power?

5.

Identify the following: Adams-Onis Treaty, Monroe Doctrine, and Missouri Compromise.

6.

What changes occurred in the voting population and voting patterns between the presidential elections of 1824 and 1828?

7.

What examples does the book give of how politics changed in the 1820s and how Jackson’s style was also new?

8.

Make a timeline of the events that led up to the Trail of Tears.

9.

Make timelines of key events in both the Nullification conflict and the Bank of the U.S. conflict

10.

Using Jackson’s Veto Message, make a list of Jackson’s objections to the renewing the National Bank.

11.

What ideas and practices did each of the following promote? The Second Great Awakening, Unitarian movement, African Methodist Episcopal Church, and Transcendentalism.

12.

Using the handout on perfectionism, summarize the assumptions about individuals and institutions entailed in the drive for perfectionism in the 1830s.

13.

Describe the plan of action for the abolition of slavery favored by each of the following abolitionists: William Lloyd Garrison, David Walker, and Frederick Douglass.

14.

Compare how the lives of the following groups of blacks differed: rural slaves, urban slaves, and free blacks.

15.

Using the handout from James Henry Hammond, summarize the arguments in favor of slavery

16.

In what ways were women’s options limited in the early 19th century?

17.

Make a chart for the following movements listing the key women involved in each and the efforts made on behalf of the movement: abolitionism, temperance, women’s education, health reform for women, women’s rights

18.

What arguments does Angelina Grimké use about why women should break out of their sphere?

19.

Using the Seneca Falls Declaration, list the worst accusations against men in the Declaration.  Do you think that these sentiments are more revolutionary than those in the Declaration of Independence? Why?

20.

List the effects of the new manufacturing techniques on workers and industry.

21.

Describe the working conditions at the Lowell Mills

22.

How did the influx of new immigrants affect circumstances in the workplace?

 

Identifications:  You should be familiar with all of these items by the time we finish the unit.

 

1.

Eli Whitney

26.

The Eaton Affair

52.

Abolitionism

2.

Industrial Revolution

27.

Tariff of Abominations

53.

William Lloyd Garrison

3.

Samuel Slater

28.

John C. Calhoun

54.

The Liberator

4.

Waltham Plan/Lowell factory

29.

Nullification

55.

American Anti-Slavery Society

5.

Henry Clay

30.

The compact theory

56.

David Walker

6.

American System

31.

Webster-Hayne debate

57.

Frederick Douglass

7.

Tariff of 1816

32.

Compromise tariff

58.

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

8.

National Road

33.

Force Bill

59.

Slave codes

9.

Erie Canal

34.

Second National Bank

60.

Gag rule

10.

Era of Good Feelings

35.

Nicholas Biddle

61.

Cult of domesticity

11.

Gibbons v. Ogden

36.

Pet banks

62.

Sarah and Angelina Grimke

12.

McCulloch v. Marylane

37.

Second Great Awakening

63.

Temperance Movement

13.

Fletcher v. Peck

38.

Charles Grandison Finney

64.

Mary C. Vaughan

14.

Dartmouth College v. Woodward

39.

Unitarians

65.

Emma Willard

15.

Adams-Onis Treaty

40.

William Ellery Channing

66.

Elizabeth Blackwell

16.

Monroe Doctrine

41.

African Methodist Episcopal Church

67.

Catherine Beecher

17.

Missouri Compromise

42.

Transcendentalism

68.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

18.

Election of 1824

43

Ralph Waldo Emerson

69.

Lucretia Mott

19.

“The Corrupt Bargain”

44.

Henry David Thoreau

70.

Seneca Falls Convention

20.

Election of 1828

45.

Horace Mann

71.

Sojourner Truth

21.

Spoils System

46.

Dorothea Dix

72.

Putting-out system

22.

Sequoya

47.

New Harmony

73.

Lowell factory system

23.

Indian Removal Act of 1830

48.

Brook Farm

74.

Irish potato famine

24.

Worcester v. Georgia

49.

Utopian Movements

75.

National Trades’ Union

25.

Trail of Tears

50.

Oneida Community

76.

Commonwealth v. Hunt

 

 

51.

The Shakers

77.

Hudson River School

Themes

 

 

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        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        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 19th 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        To what extent did a truly American culture develop in this period?

 

Economic Changes

 

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

o        What was the impact of economic change and urbanization during the first half of the 19th 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?