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Chapter 9: The Transformation of American Society (248-275)
Section 1: Westward Expansion (249-255)
Focus Question: What caused the upsurge of westward migration after the War of
1812?
1. By 1840, about how many people were living east of the Appalachians?
2. Why did people have high expectations of the west?
3. How did the federal government stimulate settlement in the west? (at least 2 ways, there are
5…)
4. How did the outcome of the War of 1812 turn out negatively for the Natives?
5. What did Chief William McIntosh do to anger his tribe? What happened to him?
6. What were Andrew Jackson’s views about independent Indian nations?
7. Why did the case of Cherokee Nation v. Georgia occur? What were the results?
8. How many Cherokees died during the “trail of tears”?
9. Why did agriculture boom after the War of 1812? (three reasons)
10. Which export boomed in the Old Southwest?
Questions & Answers:
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Create TWO questions & answers from section 1
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Old Northwest &
Southwest
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Kit Carson & Jedediah
Smith
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National Road
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President Andrew
Jackson
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Indian Removal Act
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Trail of Tears
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Five Civilized Tribes
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Chapter 9: The Transformation of American Society (248-275)
Section 2: Westward Expansion (255-263)
Focus Question: How did the rise of the market economy affect where Americans lived
and made their living?
1. What is the difference between subsistence agriculture and commercial agriculture?
2. Which risks were farmers exposed to in the new market economy? (2 risks)
3. Why did the Land Ordinance of 1785 prove unsuccessful for the Federalists?
4. Who was great affected by the issues of the Squatter and the Speculator?
5. What were the state banks doing that contributed the great panic?
6. Which event occurred in 1817 that sparked the panic? How did banks react?
7. What did the panic of 1817 force the United States to do?
8. Which natural feature of the United States shifted improving transportation?
9. How was the Erie Canal successful?
10. What were the major advantages railroads had over canals?
11. How did railroads and canals increase business opportunities?
12. Which cities became important after the War of 1812?
13. How did the Erie Canal change the importance of these port cities?
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Market Economy
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Squatters
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Speculators
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Transportation
Revolution
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Gibbons v Ogden
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Erie Canal
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Panic of 1819
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Chapter 9: The Transformation of American Society (248-275)
Section 3: Industrial Beginnings (263-267)
Focus Question: What caused the rise of industrialization?
1. What did Great Britain do to secure their industrial lead on America?
2. How did industrialization change the lives of farmers and workers? (3 reasons)
3. What were the THREE major factors that stimulated industrialization?
4. Why did New England become America’s first industrial region? (3 reasons)
5. How were the Waltham and Lowell textile mills different from Slater’s mills in Rhode Island?
(2 ways)
6. What were the restraints that “operatives” endured while working in factories? (4 reasons)
7. What were mill conditions like?
8. Why did women quit the Lowell factory in 1834? (2 reasons)
9. Why was “outwork” still needed by many textile industries?
10. What did artisans do to protest against the use of unskilled workers in factories?
Questions & Answers:
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Create TWO questions & answers from section 3
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Samuel Slater
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Francis Cabot Lowell
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Eli Whitney
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Samuel Slater
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Waltham & Lowell
Textile Mills
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Outwork
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Operatives
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Chapter 9: The Transformation of American Society (248-275)
Section 4 & 5: Equality & Inequality AND Revolution of Social Relationships (267-275)
Focus Questions: What caused poverty in this period? AND How did the rise of the market
economy and industrialization influence relationships within families and communities?
1. Describe the how most rich people got rich during the early 1800’s.
2. What were the hardships that faced poor families?
3. How did contemporaries classify the poor? Explain the two classes
4. Why did Irish immigrants come to American and what contributions did they make towards
the transportation revolution?
5. Why were the Irish hated among Protestant Americans?
6. How did northern states restrict free blacks? (four ways)
7. How did blacks respond to the separation by whites in society?
8. How were black children educated after 1787? 1820’s?
9. What major gain did the middle classes have by 1840-1860?
10. How did transience (moving around for jobs) affect the lives of most Americans?
Question & Answer:
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Create FIVE questions and answers from section 5
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Antebellum
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Pauperism
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Deserving Poor
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African Methodist
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Middling Classes
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Richard Allen
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Five Points
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Second Great
Awakening
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Catharine Beecher
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Separate Spheres
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Horizontal & Vertical
Allegiances
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