Study Guide – Unit Four: The
Jacksonian Era and the Age of Reform
Date Due
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Assignments
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Weds.,
Oct. 8 |
1.
Read p. 292 - 314 (to the Benevolent Empire) 2.
Answer questions 1 – 3 |
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Mon.,
Oct. 13 |
1.
Read p. 314 – 320 AND 322 - 330 2.
Answer questions 4 -7 |
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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. |
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Thurs.,
Oct. 16 |
1.
Read p. 340 – 349 2.
Answer questions 10 - 14 |
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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. |
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Mon.,
Oct. 20 |
1.
Read p. 352 – 366 2.
Answer questions 15 - 16 |
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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 |
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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. |
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Thurs.,
Oct. 23 |
Prepare
for the Antebellum Roundtable – Assignment due today |
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Mon.,
Oct. 27 |
DBQ
Due |
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Tues.,
Oct. 28 |
Test |
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1. |
Make a bullet-point list summarizing the
information on the rise of the factory system, the textile industry, and the
labor movement. |
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2. |
How did the economy change in this period? Include information on migration,
transportation, and urbanization |
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3. |
Summarize the information on the changes in social
classes. |
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4. |
What was the connection between reform, religious
revivalism and the new business ethic. |
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5. |
What was the impact of the increased immigration
in this period on the United States? |
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6. |
Make a bullet-point list of the information on the
rise of political parties. |
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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, |
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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. |
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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 |
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10. |
How did the |
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11. |
How did states apply Jacksonian principles on the
state level? |
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12. |
Make a bullet-point list of the information on the
Whig Party. |
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13. |
Summarize the information on the beginnings of the
labor movement and the Panic of 1837. |
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14. |
Summarize the information on Van Buren’s
presidency and the election of 1840. |
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Summarize the main ideas of
transcendentalism. Who were the other
writers associated with this movement?
What was Brook Farm? |
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16. |
Summarize the information on the various other
communalist religious movements of this period: the Shakers, Fourierist movement, Oneida Community, and the Mormons |
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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. |
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18. |
Who were the opponents of abolitionism and what
were the methods they used? |
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19. |
What was the role of women
in this era? |
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20. |
Identify the following:
Dorothea Dix, Horace Mann, Catherine Beecher, the Grimke sisters, Sojourner
Truth, Seneca Falls Convention, and Susan B. Anthony |
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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 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.
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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
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Questions and Themes for Unit
Four: The Jacksonian Era
Economic Changes
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What elements contributed to the economic growth of
the U.S. during this period?
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What were the reasons for increased urbanization
during this period? What were the changes that resulted
from that expansion?
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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?
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What was the impact of increased immigration on
American society and politics?
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What technological advances were made in this period
and how did those advances alter American society?
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How and why did the life of the working class change
in this period?
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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
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How was democracy broadened during this period? Who benefited and who didn’t?
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Was this truly the ‘Age of the Common Man?’ Why or why not?
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To what extent did Jacksonian Democracy reflect the
social and economic developments in the nation?
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What were the crises during this period? How were each resolved?
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How did Jackson extend the power of the presidency?
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What signs are there of developing sectionalism
during this period?
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What was the status of minorities during this
period?
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Compare and contrast Jacksonian Democracy and
Jeffersonian Democracy.
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What issues divided the Whigs and Democrats?
The Age of Reform
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How did the philosophy of the Transcendentalists
encourage people to reform their own society?
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To what extent did religious and reform movements of
the period extend democratic ideals?
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How did these early 19th century reform
movements for abolition and women’s rights illustrate strengths and weaknesses
of democracy in America?
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What is similar and different in the various
religious movements of the time? What
accounts for the increasing interest in religious experiences and expression?
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Compare and contrast the First and Second Great
Awakenings.
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What kinds of institutions and cultural developments
established a national identity?
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To what extent did a truly American culture develop
in this period?