Chapter 17 Reading Guide The Rise of the United States (p.394-397)
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Chapter 17 Reading Guide The Rise of the United States (p.394-397) 1. How did France help to secure American independence? _____________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What two undertakings was the United States “preoccupied with” during the 19th century? a. _____________________________________________________________________________________ b. _____________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What specific events allowed the United States to expand geographically? a. _____________________________________________________________________________________ b. _____________________________________________________________________________________ c. _____________________________________________________________________________________ 4. In what way did American benefits from European immigrants? _______________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Describe the point of view of each of the factions in the American Civil War Faction View of the American Civil War “North” “South” Abolitionists 1 Goals in the American Civil War 5. What effect did the Civil War have on industrializing the United States? _________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. What effect did industrialization have on westward expansion? _______________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Why were immigrants drawn to the United States in the 1880s? _______________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 8. What did the American victory in the Spanish-American War bring to the United States? ___________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. How did the new American empire compare to that of Britain, France, and Germany? ______________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 10. What impact did Theodore Roosevelt have on American imperial power? ________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ What Role Did Europe Play in Developing 19th Century American… Role Played by Europe Art/Literature Science 2 The Dominion of Canada (p. 397-398) 11. In what way did Canada achieve independence from the British Empire? ________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 12. What role did ethnic difference play in developing a Canadian nation? __________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 13. Why did French-Canadians and English-Canadians agree to remain one country? __________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 14. What impact did the American Revolution have on British imperial governorship of Canada? ________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 15. In what way did Canadian expansion mirror American expansion? ______________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 16. In what was did immigration to Canada mirror immigration to America (economically)? ____________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Compare and Contrast: Canadian and American Independence Similarities Difference America Canada 3 Latin America (p.399-402) 17. What caused a dissolution of the “sense of solidarity” found in Latin America? ____________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 18. How was the United States able to maintain its unity? _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 19. How was Canada able to maintain its unity? _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 20. In what ways did British Imperialism “set up” the basis for independent, Enlightenment-style democracy in Canada/United States? a. _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ b. _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 21. In what ways did Spanish Imperial diminish the basis for independent, Enlightenment-style democracy in Latin America? ___________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 22. In what ways were Latin American elites less able to establish stability in their societies than their North American counterparts?___________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 23. How did Latin American constitutionalism differ from American constitutionalism? ___________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 24. In what way did Personalist rule undermine the development of democracy in Latin America? _______________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 25. What role did the Catholic Church play in Mexico’s early independence? ________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 4 26. What impact did the absence of “experience with capitalist” enterprises have on economic development in Latin America? ___________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Imperial Economics and Later Development Differences in Imperial Economic Control Under the Imperial System Long-term Effects After Independence British Control in America/Canada Spanish Control in Latin America 27. What impact did British, French, and American investment in Latin America have? ________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 28. What impact did foreign investment have on everyday Mexicans? Why? ________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 5 The Abolition of the Slave Trade and Slavery: Impacts on the Americas (p. 402-403) 29. Why did abolitionism have such a greater impact in the Americas versus in Europe? _______________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 30. Why did Brazil and Cuba increase their demand for slaves even as other nations were ending the slave trade? __ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 31. What ended slavery in the United States? _________________________________________________________ 32. How did the British Empire undermine slavery in the Caribbean? _______________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 33. Why did educated Brazilians back an end to slavery? ________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Migration to the Americas (p. 403-404) 34. What fueled immigration to the Americas? ________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 35. What role did low wages play in developing the United States? ________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 36. Why was Chinese immigration so prevalent between 1852-1875? a. _____________________________________________________________________________________ b. _____________________________________________________________________________________ 37. Describe the immigration pattern of Europeans to Latin America: ______________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 38. Describe the immigration pattern of the Chinese to Latin America:______________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ 39. Describe the immigration pattern of Japanese, Korean, and Filipinos to the Americas: __________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 6 Vocabulary “the Bully of the North” Caudillos Darwin, Charles Diaz, Porfirio Dominion of Canada Federalist system Freud, Sigmund Isolationism/isolationist policy Jackson, Andrew Juarez, Benito La Reforma 7 Monroe Doctrine Paez, Jose Antonio Parliamentary vs presidential system Personalist rulers Regionalism Romanticism Rosas, Juan Manual de Spanish American War Washington’s Farewell Address 8
