Period4, Ch14-15 Study Guide
NAME: ____________________________
Defining the New Republic (1800-1848), part2:
Market Revolution (Ch. 14-15)
...is about exploring how changes in immigration, technology, and transportation fostered a market
revolution and subsequent religious and social reforms.
What historical “lessons learned” can be drawn from the period, 1800-1848?
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- Humans need to adapt to environments has necessitated technological innovation.
- Cultures spread through syncretism.
- Economic conditions and religion are key components in legitimizing or undermining government.
- Ever intensifying trade is a powerful force for social and political change.l inequality is source of
conflict yet ever-present in civilizations.
Objectives:
1. Explain the causes and effects of migration to and within America.
2. Analyze how technological innovation impacted economics and society.
3. Explain the development of different labor systems and how these have impacted workers lives.
4. Explain the economic development and government responses to economic developments.
5. Explain how geography and competition for resources have impacted society and politics.
6. Explain how religious groups/ideas, philosophical/scientific ideas, and women’s rights/roles have
impacted society and politics.
7. Analyze the relationships between various ethnic, regional, social, gender groups and how
they’ve impacted national identity.
8. Explain how regional, ethnic, gender, and class identities changed over time.
9. Explain how popular and reform movements have sought to change America.
Key Concepts:
Explain the definition, role, and significance of…
Chapter 14
“Self Reliance”
Ecological imperialism
Irish
Molly Maguires
Tammany Hall
Germans
Know-Nothing Party
“Awful Disclosures”
Industrial Revolution
Samuel Slater
Cotton gin
Eli Whitney
Patent Office
Limited liability
Commonwealth v. Hunt
Factory girls
Lowell system
Cult of domesticity
McCormick reaper
Turnpike
Erie Canal
Anthracite coal mining
Railroads
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Clipper ships
Pony Express
Transportation revolution
Market revolution
China
Chapter 15
“The Age of Reason”
Second Great Awakening
Charles G. Finney
Burned-Over District
Mormons
Lyceum
American Temperance Society
Maine Law of 1851
Seneca Falls
Catherine Beecher
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Lydia Maria Child
Frederick Douglas
Richard Allen
David Walker
American Colonization Society
Utopian communities
Oneida Community
Shakers
John James Audubon
Federal Style
Greek Revival
Hudson River School
Minstrel shows
Romanticism
Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
“The American Scholar”
Theme: The importance of the West grew in the early nineteenth century. Cheap land attracted
immigrants and natives alike, and, after some technological innovations, the West became an agricultural
giant. The increased output also spurred transportation developments to tie this developing region to the
rest of the United States.
Theme: In the era of Jacksonian democracy, the American population grew rapidly and changed in
character. More people lived in the raw West and in the expanding cities, and immigrant groups like the
Irish and Germans added their labor power to America’s economy, sometimes arousing hostility from
native-born Americans in the process.
Theme: In the early nineteenth century, the American economy developed the beginnings of
industrialization. The greatest advances occurred in transportation, as canals and railroads bound the
Union together into a continental economy with strong regional specialization.
Theme: The spectacular religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening reversed a trend toward
secular rationalism in American culture, and helped to fuel a spirit of social reform. In the process, religion
was increasingly feminized, while women in turn took the lead in movements of reform, including those
designed to improve their own condition.
Theme: The attempt to improve Americans faith, morals, and character affected nearly all areas of
American life and culture, including education, the family, literature, and the arts, culminating in the great
crusade against slavery.
Theme: Intellectual and cultural development in America was less prolific than in Europe, but they did
earn some international recognition and became more distinctly American, especially after the War of
1812.