AP US History (Mr. Palmieri)
Semester One, Unit Three: 1820-1850
In this unit we will explore expanding economic and commercial enterprises in the young United States. An expansion of
political participation is also witnessed, as well as the emergence of several social reform movements.
EACH NIGHT TEXTBOOK READING IS ASSIGNED, IN ADDITION TO THE ASSIGNED QUESTIONS AND VOCAB, YOU
MUST ALSO HAVE ONE QUESTION WRITTEN THAT THE READING HAS MADE YOU CURIOUS ABOUT.
Monday, October 8: Individualism and Communalism (c. 11) p 321-332
ROUNDTABLE REFORMERS assigned, with accompanying documents
1. Summarize the main ideas of transcendentalism.
2. What were the tenets (beliefs) of the Shakers?
3. Why was Oneida founded and what happened to Oneida?
4. Discuss the chronology of the Mormons including their founding and migration
Vocab: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry D. Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Brook Farm, Fourierism
Tuesday, October 9: Abolition Movement (c.11) p 332-342
5 What was Nat Turner’s Rebellion and what were its effects?
6. What were the tactics of the evangelical abolitionists?
7. Who were the opponents of abolitionism and what were the methods they used?
Vocab: abolition, David Walker, William L. Garrison, The Liberator, American Anti-Slavery Society, Harriet
Tubman, Underground Railroad.
Wednesday, October 10: The Benevolent Empire (c. 9) 283-286 and the Women’s Rights Movement (c.11) 342-349
EMAIL THREE-FOUR SENTENCE BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY TO dpalmieri@raleighcharterhs.org
8. What were the aims of the Temperance Movement?
9. How did the reform movements for abolition and women’s rights illustrate strengths and weaknesses of
democracy in America?
10. What were the origins of the Women’s Movement?
11. What was the Seneca Falls Convention and what were its effects?
Vocab: Benevolent Empire, Charles Finney, D. Dix, Cath. Beecher, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, E. Cady Stanton
Thursday, October 11 and Friday, October 12 (EXDAY)
REFORMERS ROUNDTABLE, QUESTIONS AND DOCUMENT ANALYSIS DUE
Monday, October 15: Industrialization in America (c. 9) p 262-271
12. How were the textile (cotton and wool) industries born in the US and how were these new factories powered?
13. What technological advances were made in this period and how did those advances alter American society?
14. Describe what characterized the factory system at Waltham and Lowell, Massachusetts.
Vocab: mass production, division of labor, Samuel Slater, Waltham Plan, Lowell Mills, Cotton Gin
Document 9-2, A Mill Worker Describes her Life and Work (1844) and Q 1-3
Tuesday, October 16: Moving Goods to Market and Ethnic Conflict (c. 9) p 271-278 and 286-289
15. What effect did the revolution in transportation have on American society, economics, and politics? Did
the changes in transportation increase or decrease sectionalism?
16. What effects did the building of the Erie Canal have?
17. What were the reasons for increased urbanization during this period? What were the changes that resulted
from that expansion?
18. Who was immigrating to the United States and what types of conflicts resulted?
Vocab: Erie Canal, Railroad Boom, Fulton’s Clermont, National Road, Nativism
Wednesday, October 17 – NO CLASS, PSAT
Thursday, October 18 and Friday, October 19: NO SCHOOL
Monday, October 22: Popular Politics (c. 10) p 292-302
REFORM DBQ DUE
19. How was democracy changing and expanding in the 1810’s and 20’s?
20. What did Clay’s American System entail?
21. What was the Tariff of 1828 and why did it anger many Americans?
22. Why is the election of 1828 often considered a revolution?
Vocab: political machine, Spoils System
Tuesday, October 23: Andrew Jackson’s Presidency (c. 10) p 302-306
23. How did Jackson utilize the Spoils System and his “Kitchen Cabinet”?
24. What were the opposing viewpoints in the Bank War?
25. Discuss the “Tariff of Abominations,” SC’s act of nullification, and how the situation was resolved
Vocab: Second Bank of the U.S., National (Maysville) Road veto, Daniel Webster
Wednesday, October 24: Indian Removal and the Trail of Tears (c. 10) p 306-312
26. Take a least a page of notes on important ideas and concepts in the textbook reading. You can identify some
key terms but also focus on main ideas that are discussed in the reading. Include this vocab in your notes: Indian
Removal Act of 1830, Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia, Worcester vs. Georgia, Trail of Tears, Roger Taney
Thursday, October 25: The Whig Party and the Election of 1840 (c. 10) p 312-319
27. Make a bullet-point list of the information characterizing the Whig Party.
28. Discuss the Panic of 1837 and the beginnings of the labor movement.
29. What characterized the election of 1840? What issues were prominent?
Vocab: closed-shop agreements, Martin Van Buren, Commonwealth v. Hunt
Monday, October 29: Slavery in the South (c. 12) p 351-359
30. How was the South meeting the demand for slaves while the trans-Atlantic slave trade was being eliminated?
31. What crops demanded the use of slave labor? In what states were these crops grown? Which crops were farmed
earlier and which were crops farmed right before the Civil War?
32. What impacts did the domestic slave economy have on the lives of slaves and on slave families?
Vocab: Atlantic Slave Trade, Domestic Slave Trade
Tuesday, October 30: Slavery in the South (c. 12) 359-366
33. How did southerners justify the institution of slavery and how did they try to defend the institution?
34. Discuss the hierarchy of slaveholding southerners.
35. Discuss reasons the South lagged so far behind in industrialization.
Vocab: planter aristocracy, gang-labor system, driver
Document 12-6, Edmund Ruffin Defends Slavery (1853) and Q 1-3
Wednesday, October 31: The African-American World (c. 12) 370-378
36. Take a least a page of notes on important ideas and concepts in the textbook reading. You can identify some
key terms but also focus on main ideas that are discussed in the reading.
Thursday, November 1: Unit Three Review and Test Essay
Friday, November 2: UNIT THREE TEST (multiple choice)
Review Questions for Unit Three:
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What elements contributed to the economic growth of the U.S. during this period?
How and why did the life of the working class change in this period?
What effect did the revolution in transportation have on American society, economics, and politics?
How was democracy broadened during this period? Who benefited and who didn’t?
In what ways was the presidency expanded by Jackson?
How did reform movements give previously excluded voices an arena to discuss issues and grievances?
What kinds of institutions and cultural developments established a national identity and American culture?