APUSH – Unit V Study Guide “Jacksonian Democracy and the Politics of Reform”
Pages 256-272 Role of Andrew Jackson in the New Democracy
Vocabulary: Corrupt Bargain, J.Q. Adams, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, William Crawford,
Speaker of the House, “Judas of the West”, National Republicans, “Old Hickory, Spoils System,
Rotation in Office, Tariff of Abominations, protectionism,
Denmark Vesey, The South Carolina Exposition, John C. Calhoun, “Nullies”, Force Bill,
Cherokees, Worcester vs. Georgia, Five Civilized Tribes, Trail of Tears, Indian Removal Act,
Black Hawk, Oceola, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 2nd National Bank, McCulloch vs. Maryland,
Nicholas Biddle, Anti-Masonic Party, Pet Banks or “wildcat” banks,
Questions:
1. How did the Election of 1824 undermine John Quincy Adams’ presidency?
2. Why did Americans reject Adams’ nationalistic policies?
3. Describe the campaign strategies of the 1828 presidential election.
4. What was the Tariff of Abominations and why were southerners ardently opposed to it?
5. What was Jackson’s response to South Carolina’s nullification of the Tariff of 1828?
6. How did Henry Clay help to avert a secession crisis?
7. What was Jackson’s justification for removal of the eastern Indian tribes to west of the
Mississippi?
8. Why did Jackson oppose the 2nd National Bank?
9. What were the two novelties in the 1832 presidential election?
10. How did Jackson go about “killing” the National Bank?
Pages 272-286
Return of the Two Party System
Vocabulary: Whigs, Martin Van Buren, Daniel Webster, William H. Harrison,
Panic of 1837, Stephen Austin, Davy Crocket, Jim Bowie, Texicans, Santa Anna,
Alamo, Goliad, Sam Houston, San Jacinto, Lone Star Republic, “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too”,
Democratic Party
Questions:
1. What political groups made up the Whig Party? Who were their leaders?
2. What was the Whig Party platform?
3. What were the major causes of the Panic of 1837, how did Jackson bank policies
contribute to the depression?
4. What issues led to a revolt of the Texans against Mexico in 1836?
5. Why did the U.S. Congress reject Texas’ request to be annexed?
6. Describe the presidential campaign of 1840? What had changed about American
electoral laws that led to a chance in campaigns?
7. What were the primary differences between the Democrats and Whigs in regards to their
party platforms?
Pages 338-347
American Cultural Identity
Vocabulary: Monticello, Gilbert Stuart, Charles Wilson Peale, Hudson River School,
Knickerbocker Group, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Transcendentalism,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville
Questions:
1. In what way did American writers, artists and poets illustrate the emerging sense of
nationalism in the post War of 1812 era (Era of Good Feelings)?
2. What were the general themes present in the writings of the Knickerbocker Group?
3. What are the basic doctrines of transcendentalism?
4. What later movements/leaders were influenced by the transcendentalists?
5. What impact did American writers and poets have on the reform movements of the early
19th century in America?
6. Why did early American History texts tend to depict the South as backward and in an
unsympathetic way?
Pages 320-338
Second Great Awakening and Reform
Vocabulary: Second Great Awakening, Deism, Charles Grandison Finney, “Burned Over
District”, Joseph Smith, Mormons, Brigham Young, Horace Mann, McGuffey’s Reader,
Lyceums, Dorthea Dix, Temperance Movement, Maine Law of 1851, Neal Dow, “cult of
domesticity”, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Seneca Falls
Convention, “Declaration of Sentiments, Robert Owen, Utopian Communities, Oneida
Community, Shakers, John J. Audubon
Questions:
1. What impact did the Second Great Awakening have on later reform movements of the
early 19th Century?
2. What social and economic factors led to the SGA?
3. How did the SGA impact the role of women in society and religion?
4. List the education reforms introduced by Horace Mann.
5. What educational opportunities for women were opened up in the early 1800?
6. Why did almost all utopian communities ultimately fail to last?
Pates 356-370
Abolitionism and its impact
Vocabulary: mulattoes, chattel slavery, Slave Trade prohibition (1808), “sold down river”,
Frederick Douglas, black belt, Denmark Vesey, “peculiar institution”, American Colonization
Society, Liberia, Theodore Dwight Weld, Lyman Beecher, Slavery as It Is, William L. Garrison,
Liberator, David Walker, Appeal to the Black Citizens of the World,
Nat Turner’s Rebellion, Gag Resolution, Elijah P. Lovejoy
Questions:
1. What was the plight (living conditions) of free blacks in the North and South?
2. What impact did the international slave trade prohibition have on the domestic slave
trade?
3. In what ways did slaves maintain a semblance of family life and normalcy?
4. In what ways did slave passively resist slavery?
5. What methods were used by abolitionists to sway public opinion?
6. In what ways were Frederick Douglas and William L. Garrison different in their approach
to abolition?
7. What impact did Nat Turner’s rebellion have on the South?
8. What arguments did Southerners use to defend the practice of slavery?