Homework 12 - Chapter 7: Balancing Nationalism and Sectionalism
Read pages 210 to 236. Answer the questions.
Section 1: Regional Economies Create Differences
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Who did Adams meet in 1801?
What is unique about the musket that was manufactured and shown to Adams?
What is mass production?
How did this shape the Industrial Revolution?
Where did the industrial revolution begin?
What were the sources of energy for the first factories?
What two events brought the industrial revolution to the US?
Why did these events shape the industrial revolution in the US?
How did Francis Cabot Lowell transform manufacturing?
Describe agriculture in the northern states.
Why did slavery die out in the northern states?
What invention transformed the south?
What made cotton so profitable for southern planters?
How did cotton expand slavery and make it permanent in the south?
What is the American System?
How did it help the US?
How did it hurt the US?
Who dreamed up the idea of the American System?
What were the two major transportation improvements in the US?
Why was transportation essential to the growth of the US?
Why is the Erie Canal still considered a wonder in engineering?
What was the Tariff of 1816?
Why did northerners approve the tariff?
Why did southerners dislike the tariff?
Why was the Bank of the US essential at the time?
Section 2: Nationalism at Center Stage
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What was the Clermont and who invented it?
How did ships such as the Clermont help unite the country?
What was the main issue in the Supreme Court Case Gibbons v. Ogden?
What was decided in the case?
How did McCullough v. Maryland strengthen the power of the Federal Government?
How did the case Dartmouth College v. Woodward help limit state governments and protect businesses?
How did Secretary of State John Quincy Adams promote the interests of the US?
What is nationalism?
How did the Rush Bagot Treaty and the Convention of 1818 strengthen the US?
Why is the Adams-Onis Treaty almost as important as the Louisiana Purchase?
What message did President Monroe give to Congress in 1823?
Why is the Monroe Doctrine super duper important?
What reasons did many Americans have for moving to the west?
How many people needed to be in a territory before the place could become a new state?
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How did the addition of Missouri threaten the peace in the US?
Who created a compromise to satisfy the north and south on the question of Missouri?
How did the compromise prevent sectional conflict?
Did the Missouri Compromise work?
Explain why because it is good for you.
Section 3: The Age of Jackson
1. Look at page 224. What did Adams tell Jefferson when they discussed who should write the Declaration of
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2. What happened on the 7/4/1826?
3. Who was John Quincy Adams’ main opponent?
4. Why could one argue that Andrew Jackson was supposed to be president in 1824?
5. Who fixed things to guarantee the election of John Quincy Adams?
6. Why did this fellow think Jackson was not qualified to be president?
7. What new political party did Jackson form?
8. What new changes had come to elections by 1824?
9. Why is this one of the best ideas for American Democracy?
10. How did Jackson appeal to the everyday American?
11. What is the spoils system?
12. What is the danger of the spoils system?
13. What made the Indian tribes of the south “civilized”?
14. Why did Jackson authorize the removal of southern Indians?
15. Where were they supposed to go?
16. How did the Cherokee plan to fight the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
17. What was the name of the court case that the Cherokee won?
18. Why did Jackson refuse to enforce the court order?
19. What made the Trail of Tears one of the saddest episodes in US History?
Section 4: State’s Rights and the National Bank
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What is the most important line in Daniel Webster’s speech on page 230?
How did John C. Calhoun respond to that speech?
Why did Calhoun call the tariff of 1828 a “Tariff of Abominations”?
Was he right or wrong? WhY?
According to Calhoun what could be done about the tariff?
What was the result of the Hayne/Webster debate on the tariff?
Why did Calhoun quit as Vice President?
What did South Carolina decide to do about the tariff?
How did Jackson respond to SC?
Who saved the US from a civil war over tariffs?
How did he do it?
Why was the Bank of the United States essential to the economy of the US?
Why was the Bank of the United States considered for only the rich and not everyday Americans?
How did Jackson plan to do away with the Bank of the US?
Did the plan work? WhY?
How did wealthy politicians respond to Jackson’s closing of the bank?
What political items did the Whig Party stand for?
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Who was president after Jackson?
What was the name of the economic depression the new president faced?
How did he attempt to deal with it?
Who really caused the Panic of 1837?
Why did Jackson never get blamed for this?
How did William Henry Harrison become president of the US?
What happened with in one month of his inauguration?
Who was the first Vice President to succeed a dead President?