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US I UNIT VI: The Jacksonian Era and a Changing America Study Guide DUE: Thurs Feb 25th
Part 1: In the blank space provided, answer the below essential questions to the best of your ability using the terms as
much as possible and information from class and readings. Use this similar to a brainstorm – write down terms that fit and
see if you can make the puzzle with the pieces. Know all Key terms and Essential Questions for the test:
Era of Good Feelings
Nationalism
National Road
Adams-Onis Treaty
Andrew Jackson
Sectionalism
Erie Canal
McCulloch v. Maryland
John Quincy Adams
Era of Good Feelings
Tariff of 1816
Gibbons v. Ogden
Corrupt Bargain
Henry Clay
2nd Bank of US
Monroe Doctrine
Democratic Party
American system
Rush-Bagot Agreement
Missouri Compromise
EQ: What role did Nationalism play in the Era of Good Feelings and what was achieved during this time?
Market Revolution
Market Revolution
Mass production
Lowell Mills
Telegraph
Industrial Revolution
Putting-out system/Cottage
Eli Whitney
John Deere
Transportation Revolution
industry
Interchangeable parts
Cyrus McCormick
Steamboat
Specialization
Cotton gin
EQ: How did the Industrial Revolution and emergence of new transportation and communication tech impact the
economic development of the US? How did it impact women and their role in society?
Plantation South
King Cotton
Lower South
Task system
Black Codes
Nat Turner’s
Upper South
Gang Labor
Slave Codes
Gag rule
Rebellion
EQ: What role did the institution of slavery play in Southern Society? How influential were the planter elite?
Age of Jackson
Democratic Party
Trail of Tears
Daniel Webster
Whig Party
Spoils system
Worcester v. Georgia
Bank War
Second Party System
Indian Removal Act
Nullification Crisis
Martian Van Buren
William Henry Harrison
2nd Seminal War
John C Calhoun
Panic of 1837
John Tyler
EQ: To what extent did Jackson Democracy reach different people in the US? What were the political implications of
Old Hickory’s Presidency?
Reform Movements
Second Great Awakening
Civil Disobedience
Dorothea Dix
Declaration of Sentiments
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Abolitionism
Horace Mann
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Transcendentalism
Emancipation
Cult of Domesticity
Lucretia Mott
Henry David Thoreau
Fredrick Douglas
Seneca Falls Convention
William Lloyd Garrison
The Liberator
EQ: How did the Second Great Awakening help lead to reform movements? What changes occurred because of these
movements? What extent did utopian societies fulfill their view of an “ideal America”?
Era of Good Feelings:
1. What is the difference between Nationalism and Sectionalism? Give some historical examples from this unit.
2. What was the Era of Good feelings and who presided as president over it?
3. What are two examples of Nationalistic Supreme Court cases and what did they each decide?
a.
b.
4. What was the main goal of the American System? What were the three parts to it?
a.
b.
c.
5. What key events in foreign policy took place during Monroe’s Administration? (Include treaties as well) Explain
them.
6. Who was the “Great compromiser” and how did his Missouri Compromise avoid war?
7. Why was the Election of 1824 termed the “Corrupt Bargain” by Andrew Jackson? What political party is born
out of the results of the election? Why did Jackson win the election of 1828?
Market Revolution:
8. What changes did the Market Revolution have on US society?
9. How the Market Revolution influenced how people worked and who was working?
10. What kinds of changes did early Labor Unions want?
11. Explain how new transportation and communication technologies impacted the economic development of the
United States (e.g. Erie Canal, cotton gin, national telegraph and railroad system, steamships, etc.).
12. Where did new waves of immigrants come from and how were they received in the US?
13. What is Nativism, and what political party formed around this issue? What did they want to do?
14. What new technological advances made the west more productive, and why were the West and the North
becoming more economically connected?
Plantation South:
15. How did the Cotton gin lead to an increase in slavery and the plantation system?
16. What was meant by “King Cotton”?
17. What are the economic and geographic differences between the Upper South and Lower South?
18. When would a planter use the Task System of slave labor or Gang Labor?
19. How did slaves resist both passively and violently?
20. In what ways did the South try to limit the rights of both slaves and free blacks?
21. How did the South justify the institution of slavery, and how was the South becoming increasingly isolated from
other parts of the US and other countries?
Age of Jackson:
22. What made “Jacksonian Democracy” different from the democracy of the past?
23. How did Jackson reward those who supported him?
24. How did westward movement and settlement of US citizens impact the culture and movement of American
Indians?
25. In what ways did Native Americans resisted (legally and/or violently) to the Indian Removal Act?
26. How did government policy on banks and tariffs lead to sectionalism?
27. What was the end result of the Nullification Crisis?
28. How did Jackson deal with internal conflicts over the tariff and the Bank of the US?
29. How does Jackson’s bank policies lead to the Panic of 1837? Who gets the blame for the panic?
30. Who were the Whigs, why did they form, and what did they believe in?
31. How does William Henry Harrison win the election of 1840?
Reform Movements:
32. What was the 2nd Great Awakening and what beliefs did it teach? What were some religious movements that
come out of it and what did they believe?
33. What are some examples of 19th century utopian communities and what were they trying to achieve?
34. What were the Transcendentalist and Romanticism movements in literature and art? Who were some
transcendentalist and Romantic authors?
35. What did Thoreau mean by “Civil Disobedience”?
36. How did religious values (the Second Great Awakening), economic changes, and political ideals lead to social
reform movements?
37. How did William Lloyd Garrison and Fredrick Douglas differ on how to achieve emancipation?
38. Evaluate the effectiveness of the social reform movements of the mid19th Century (e.g., abolition, women’s
rights, education reform, asylum reform, temperance, prison reform). Who were some key figures involved in
these reforms?
39. Describe how and why the ideals of American womanhood changed from “republican motherhood” at the time of
the American Revolution to the “cult of domesticity” by the start of the Civil War.