CHAPTER 15-16 QUESTION

  1. How was the westward movement taxing on the land? (p. 298) How did nationalism influence preservation in the 19th century? (p. 298-99)
  2. What problems came with rapid urbanization in the 19th century? (p.299-30)
  3. What factors influenced European migration in the mid 19th century? (p. 300)
  4. What lead to mass Irish immigration in the 1840? (p. 302)
  5. Why did Irish immigrants tend to not settle in the West? (p. 302)
  6. How were Irish immigrants treated where they did settle? (p. 302)
  7. Where did most German immigrants settle and why? (p. 303)
  8. What reason did the “nativists” oppose immigration in the 19th century? (p. 303-04)
  9. What was the significance of the cotton gin? (p. 310-11) > Several Effects
  10. What were Inter-changeable parts and how did they influence factory systems? (p.312)
  11. How were children exploited in the factories? (p. 313)
  12. What leverage did factory owners have against workers in the mid 19th century? (p.314)
  13. What effect did the Mower-Reaper have on western migration? (p. 317)
  14. What effect did the steamboat have on western migration and what advantages did the steamboat provide? (p. 319-20)
  15. What economic changes came with the Erie Canal? (p. 320)
  16. Why were railroads slow to grow in the 1830s? (p. 321-22)
  17. What were the primary religious beliefs of Deists and Unitarian’s? (p. 329-30)
  18. How did the rise of Deism & Unitarianism spawn the second Great Awakening? (p. 330)
  19. How did the ideas of the second Great Awakening spread? (p. 330)
  20. How did the second Great Awakening create more division between the social classes? (p. 331)
  21. Why were Mormons disliked initially? (p. 332)
  22. Why was higher education for women not looked upon favorably in the 19th century? (p. 335)
  23. What gender roles did society place on women in the 19th century? (p. 339)
  24. What was the significance of the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848? (p. 340)
  25. What other emotional debate made women’s rights take a back seat in the mid 19th century? (p. 340)
  26. What were the fundamental beliefs of Transcendentalism? (p. 349)