Chapter 13 & 14 Unit Key Concepts
1.* Understand the effect of the slavery issue on politics in the 1820s and 1830s.
Pg. 256
2. Understand why the House of Representatives decided the 1824 presidential
election. Pg. 258
3. Explain the alleged details of what Jackson supporters called the “corrupt
bargain.” Pg. 258
4. Know that John Quincy Adam’s presidency was unsuccessful. Pg. 258
5.* Know what Andrew Jackson’s political philosophy was based on. Pg. 262
6.* Know how Jackson’s presidency was linked to the masses. Pg. 262
7. Know the purpose behind the spoils system. Pg. 262
8. Know the result of the spoils system under Jackson. Pg. 262-263
9. Know what section of the U.S. most hurt by the Tariff of 1828. Pg. 263
10. Understand why southerners feared the Tariff of 1828. Pg. 264
11. Know what Calhoun’s “South Carolina Exposition” argued for. Pg. 264
12. Know what caused the “nullification crisis” of 1832-1833. Pg. 264
13. Know what the Force Bill of 1833 provided. Pg. 265
14.* Know the person who is credited with defusing the tariff controversy began
in 1828. Pg.265
15. Know what ended the nullification crisis. Pg. 265
16. Understand why Jackson’s administration supported removal of Native
Americans. Pg. 265
17.* Know what actions the Cherokees did to assimilate into white society. Pg.
266
18. Know what policy the Jackson administration took towards Native Americans.
Pg. 267
19. Know the reasons Jackson disliked the Bank of the United States. Pg. 269
20. Know the result of Jackson’s veto of the recharter bill for the Bank of U.S. Pg.
270
21.* Know what were the causes of the Panic of 1837. Pg. 274
22. Know what battle resulted in Texas independence. Pg. 277
23. Know the reason Jackson and Van Buren did not annex Texas. Pg. 280
24. Know who was represented by “Tippecanoe” in the 1840 campaign slogan.
Pg. 280
25.* Know how William Henry Harrison was characterized by the Whig party in
1840. Pg. 281
26. Know what life was like on the frontier. Pg. 288
27. Know the results of the growth of cities between 1800 and 1860. Pg. 290-291
28.* Know that many people left Ireland in the 1840’s. Pg. 292
29. Know what religion were most Irish immigrants. Pg. 292
30. Know the reason why most Irish immigrants stayed in eastern seaboard
cities. Pg. 292
31. Know were most Irish immigrants stayed when they came to America. Pg.
292-293
32. Know the reason why Native-born Protestant Americans distrusted the Irish.
Pg. 292-293
33. Know the main reasons German immigrants left their homeland. g. 293
34.* Understand the success of the German immigrants. Pg. 293-294
35. Know what was organized as a reaction to Irish immigration. Pg. 296
36. Know the definition of nativism. Pg. 296
37. Know what Native-born Americans feared Catholic immigrants would do. Pg.
296-297
38. Know one result of immigration to the U.S. before 1860. Pg. 297
39. Know what Eli Whitney invented. Pg. 303
40. Know in what industry the American industrial revolution began. Pg. 303
41.* Know one negative result brought about by the cotton gin. Pg. 302
42. Know who invented the telegraph, mower-reaper, and the steamboat. Pg.
304-310
43. Know the result of the ruling in Commonwealth v. Hunt. Pg. 305
44.* Explain the “cult of domesticity” Pg. 307
45.* Know major area where steamboats operated. Pg. 311
46. Know what canal began the construction of many more canals. Pg. 312
47.* Know what region of the country most early railroads were built. Pg. 313
48. Understand the advantage railroads had over canals. Pg. 313
49. Know the specialized economic activity of each region of the U.S. in the early
1800s. Pg. 316-317
50.* Understand the importance of the home within the growing market economy.
Pg. 317-318