Chapters 7 & 8
Study Guide
How did the Industrial Revolution contribute to the growing
sectionalism in the United States?
What were the consequences of the invention of the cotton
gin?
Describe Henry Clay’s American System. What was it? How was it supposed to help the nation overcome sectionalism?
John Quincy Adams
Nationalism
Adams-Onís Treaty
What was the Monroe Doctrine? What motivated it? What role
did the British play in its creation?
What motivated the Missouri Compromise? Who promoted it?
Andrew Jackson
Election
of 1828
Democratic
Party
Spoils
system
Indian
policy:
Removal
Assimilation
“Treaties”
Washington’s
intended policy of treaties
Jackson’s
policy of removal (Indian Removal Act of 1830)
Trail
of Tears
Nullification
The
Bank War
Jacksonian
Democracy
Autocratic-democrat
What were the trends in the slave population of the South?
Who were the key leaders of the abolition movement? How did
they disseminate their ideas?
In what ways did slaves resist slavery?
What was the Second Great Awakening? Describe the unique
religious practices and beliefs of the following:
- · Seventh-Day Adventists
- · Christian Scientists
- · Methodists
- · Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- · Shakers
How did immigration reshape America’s workforce during the
first half of the 19th century?
How did employers and the law respond to workers’ strikes?
Describe working and living conditions for girls at the
Lowell Mills.
Who were the key leaders of the feminist movement and what
role did they play? What was the relationship
between the feminist movement and other reforms (abolition and temperance)?
What was the Seneca Falls Convention? What was the
Declaration of Sentiments?
What was McCulloch v.
Maryland about? In Part I of the decision, the Supreme Court explains why
the people are sovereign and not the states.
What is the reasoning for this? In Part II, the Supreme Court interprets
the meaning of the “necessary and proper” clause because it is trying to
determine whether the Bank of the United States is constitutional. Explain the Court’s argument about the
meaning of the “necessary and proper” clause.
Explain the mudsill theory. Why does Hammond argue the North
is in a more precarious situation than the South?
What specific evidence does Frederick Douglass give to overturn
misconceptions about slavery? Give several examples.
Understand the arguments in favor of slavery put forward by
Thomas Dew.
Be able to interpret passages from Walden.
What is the proper role of books, according to Emerson? What
is the relationship between thought and action, according to Emerson? What is nature?
Explain the concept of the Oversoul.
Identify the following:
Martin Van Buren
Whig Party
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
Henry Clay
John C. Calhoun
Sojourner Truth
Lucretia Mott
Sarah and Angelina Grimké
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Nat Turner
Gag rule
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Transcendentalism
Charles Grandison Finney
Brook Farm
Perfectionism
Communalism
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