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?