Chapter 5 The Young Republic 1816-1848
Ch. 5.1 A Growing Nation
Define:
1. Robert Fulton
2. Peter Cooper
3. Industrial Revolution
4. Francis C. Lowell
5. Eli Whitney
6. interchangeable parts
7. nativism
8. Know-Nothing
9. labor union
10. strike
11. cotton gin
12. yeoman farmer
13. driver
Answer:
1. What were two advantages of trains over other kinds of transportation?
2. How did industrialization affect cities?
3. What effect did the cotton gin have on the Southern economy?
4. What was life like for enslaved African Americans in the South?
Ch. 5.2 The Age of Jackson
Define:
1. Missouri Compromise
2. “favorite son”
3. “corrupt bargain”
4. mudslinging
5. spoils system
6. caucus
7. secede
8. Indian Removal Act
9. Trail of Tears
10. Nicholas Biddle
11. Whig
12. Specie Circular
Answer:
1. How did John Quincy Adams win the election of 1824?
2. Why was there a large increase in the number of voters in the United States in 1828?
3. What caused the nullification crisis?
4. What was the Trail of Tears?
5. What caused the Panic of 1837?
Ch. 5.3 The Reform Spirit
Define:
1. Second Great Awakening
2. benevolent society
3. transcendentalism
4. utopia
5. temperance
6. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
7. abolition
8. emancipation
9. Frederick Douglas
Answer:
1. What sparked the reform movement of the mid 1800s?
2. Who were some of the leading transcendentalists during America’s literary renaissance?
3. What were two aspects of American society targeted by reformers?
4. Why was a better public educational system needed in the early 1800s?
5. How did society’s view of women change in the early 1800s?
6. How did Northerners and Southerners view abolitionism?
Ch. 5.4 Manifest Destiny
Define:
1. Manifest Destiny
2. squatter
3. Pre-emption Act
4. Tejano
5. empresario
6. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
7. Sam Houston
8. annexation
9. Bear Flag Republic
10. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Answer:
1. What kind of relationship did the Plains Indians and white settlers have?
2. What did Mexico offer people willing to settle in Northern Texas, and what did it require of those settlers?
3. What was the outcome of the first election in Texas?
4. How did the United States gain Oregon and Texas?
5. What was President Polk’s three-pronged strategy in the War with Mexico?