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

 

Date Due
Assignments

Weds., Oct. 8

1. Read p. 292 - 314 (to the Benevolent Empire)

2. Answer questions 1 – 3

Mon., Oct. 13

1. Read p. 314 – 320 AND 322 - 330

2. Answer questions 4 -7

Tues., Oct. 14

1. Read p. 330 – 339

2. Answer questions 8 - 9

3. Read the documents.  These are key expressions of political thought of the day.  In your margin notes, try to indicate why they are important.

Thurs., Oct. 16

1. Read p. 340 – 349

2. Answer questions 10 - 14

Fri., Oct. 17

1. Read your assigned article and be prepared to discuss it in class.  You will be responsible for explaining to the class the thesis of the article and its major points as well as the evidence the authors use to support their arguments.

2. Write up a short summary of your article.  Use your own words.  This can be a bullet point list or an outline.  Don’t write more than one page.

3. Review the material you’ve learned so far from this unit

4. If you have a presidential chart, it is due today.  Please email it to me or bring it before 1st period.

Mon., Oct. 20

1. Read p. 352 – 366

2. Answer questions 15 - 16

Tues., Oct. 21

1. Read p. 367 - 374

2. Answer questions 17 and 18

3. Read the excerpts from William Lloyd Garrison and H. Manly.  Take margin notes concerning the types of arguments that Garrison uses and how the American Anti-Slavery Society planned to fight slavery.  For Manly’s essay, make margin notes on the arguments he uses to defend slavery

Weds., Oct. 22

1. Read p. 374 – 380

2. Answer questions 19 and 20

3. Read the packet of materials on the women’s movement and take margin notes.  Be prepared to discuss in class.

Thurs., Oct. 23

Prepare for the Antebellum Roundtable – Assignment due today

Mon., Oct. 27

DBQ Due

Tues., Oct. 28

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 migration, transportation, and urbanization

3.

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.

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

10.

How did the Taney Court differ from the Marshall Court? What was the significance of the cases of Charles River Bridge  and Dartmouth College?

11.

How did states apply Jacksonian principles on the state level?

12.

Make a bullet-point list of the information on the Whig Party.

13.

Summarize the information on the beginnings of the labor movement and the Panic of 1837.

14.

Summarize the information on Van Buren’s presidency and the election of 1840.

15

Summarize the main ideas of transcendentalism.  Who were the other writers associated with this movement?  What was Brook Farm?

16.

Summarize the information on the various other communalist religious movements of this period: the Shakers, Fourierist movement, Oneida Community, and the Mormons

17.

Identify the following: American Colonization Society, David Walker, Nat Turner, William Lloyd Garrison, Theodore Dwight Weld. American Anti-Slavery Society, and the Underground Railroad.

18.

Who were the opponents of abolitionism and what were the methods they used?

19.

What was the role of women in this era?

20.

Identify the following: Dorothea Dix, Horace Mann, Catherine Beecher, the Grimke sisters, Sojourner Truth, Seneca Falls Convention, and Susan B. Anthony

 

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 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?

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 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        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?