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Growth and Division Study Guide
Directions: Choose 15 vocab words you are least familiar and define them. Then choose 10 questions you are least familiar with and answer completely. Answer on separate sheet.
I. Industry and Transportation Revolution - Industrial Revolution, Power loom, Sewing Machine, Interchangeable Parts, Eli Whitney, Steam Power/Fulton, Know-Nothings (anti-immigration), Railroads, Erie Canal,
1) How and why did industrialism begin in the North, in terms of ideas, materials, and labor?
2) How did transportation and communication change the North?
3) How did life change with early industrialization?
II. South - Eli Whitney/Cotton Gin, agrarian, Nat Turner, slave power
1) How is the south an agrarian society?
2) How did the cotton gin change life in the south?
3) How did Southerners attempt to justify slavery?
4) What was life under slavery like? How did slaves respond to its conditions?
III. Manifest Destiny - Louisiana Purchase, Trail of Tears, Mexican-American War, Adams-Onis Treaty, 49ers, Mormons
1) How did the U.S. acquire the West, what methods did they use?
2) Why did Americans move west? What is “Manifest Destiny”?
3) How did westward expansion (specifically Mexican-American War) cause problems between N+S?
IV. Politics and Reform- Public Schools, Horace Mann, Dorothea Dix, Seneca Falls Convention, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Slavery, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Uncle Tom’s Cabin/Harriet Beecher Stowe, Underground Railroad, Frederick Douglas, Dred Scott, Garrison/Liberator, Hudson River School, Transcendentalist, 2nd great awakening, Thoreau, free labor, Garrisonians
1) What did most reformers have in common?
2) How did reform movements contribute to sectionalism
3) Why did reform movements develop in the 1830s?
4) How were the ideas of Abolitionism spread?
5) What are the differences between the (immediatist school (Garrisonians) and the Gradualist (free labor) school?
V. Compromises and conflict over expansion and Sectionalism - Missouri Compromise, Tariff of abomination, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Law, Kansas/Nebraska Act, “Popular Sovereignty”, John Brown, Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Sumner, Election of 1860, Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln, Harper’s Ferry, ft. Sumter, Stephen Douglas
1) How did the social, economic, ideological structures differ in the North and South? Why would this cause problems?
2) Why did the compromises that were made over the expansion of slavery not stop the Civil War?
3) What was the immediate cause of the southern states leaving the union? Which states left first and how was the Confederacy organized?
VI. Age of Jackson- John Marshall, Supreme Court, Marbury V. Madison, Judicial Review, Spoils System, Voting Rights after 1830s, Age of the Common Man, Tariff of Abomination, Indian Removal Act, Worcester V. Georgia, Trail of Tears, Bank of US, PET banks.
1) How did the Supreme Court attempt to define the role of the courts and the Federal Government under John Marshall?
2) How could Jackson be seen as a great president and a terrible president?
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