Ch 9: The Dynamics of Growth
Key Terms:
1. Transportation Revolution
a. Roads
b. Water Transportation
c. Railroad
d. Clipper Ship
e. Public/Private Funding
2. Communication Revolution
a. Telegraph
3. National Market Revolution
a. Cotton Gin
b. Preemption Act 1830
c. Graduation Act 1854
d. Iron and Steel Plows
e. Mechanical Reaper
4. The Industrial Revolution
a. Early Textile Manufactures
i. Samuel Slater
ii. Putting-out System
iii. Protective Tariff
b. Lowell System
c. Rhode Island System/Family
System
d. Environmental Impact
e. Rise of Industrial Cities
5. Urban Popular Culture
a. Social Drinking
b. Blood Sports
c. Performing Arts
d. Cult of Domesticity
6. Immigration
a. Romantic views of American
freedom and opportunity
b. Irish
c. German
d. Nativism
e. The American Party (KnowNothing Party)
7. Organized Labor
a. Trade Guild System
b. Trade Associations (Skilled Labor)
c. Commonwealth of MA v. Hunt
1842
d. National Trades’ Union
e. Locofocos
f. Lynn/Natick, MA Shoemakers
Strike
8. Rise of Professionals
a. Professional workers have
specialized knowledge and skills
b. Epitomized the Democratic ideal
c. Teaching
d. Law/medicine/Engineering
e. Women
9. Jacksonian Inequality
a. “Rags to Riches” Antebellum
Myth
Ch 10: Nationalism and Sectionalism
Key Terms:
1. Economic Nationalism
a. Second Bank of the United
States
b. Tariff of 1816
c. National Road
d. The “American System”
e. Panic of 1819
2. Political Nationalism
a. Era of “Good Feelings”
3. Geographical Nationalism
a. The Convention of 1818
(Don’t Confuse with the
Convention of 1800!)
b. Transcontinental Treaty
(Adams-Onis Treaty) 1819
c. Missouri Compromise
4. Judicial Nationalism
a. Judicial Review
b. Federal Power Supremacy
c. Protection of Contract Rights
d. Interstate Commerce Regulation
5. Nationalist Diplomacy
a. Monroe Doctrine
6. End of One Party Politics
a. “Corrupt Bargain”
b. Patronage
c. Democratic-Republican Party Division
i. National Republicans
ii. Democrats
d. Election of 1828
e. Universal White Manhood Suffrage
f. Mass Democracy
Ch 11: The Jacksonian Era
Key Terms:
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Spoils system
National political conventions
Peggy Eaton Affair
Maysville Road Veto
Tariff of 1828/”Tariff of Abominations”
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Webster-Hayne Debate
South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification
Force Bill
Compromise Tariff of 1833
Indian Removal Act 18305 Civilized Tribes
Trail of Tears
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia 1831
Worcester v. Georgia 1832
The Bank Recharter Veto
Pet Banks
Wildcat Banks
Distribution Act
Specie Circular Act
Panic of 1837
Independent Treasury System
1840 “Log Cabin and Hard Cider” Presidential Campaign
Chapter 12:
Key Terms
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
“peculiar institution”
Master paternalism
Return to Africa Colonization
Haitian slave revolt influence on American slave system
King Cotton
Old South Social Hierarchy
a. Planters
b. Plantation Mistresses
c. White Middle Class
d. “Poor Whites”
Code of Gentlemen
Black Society
a. Free Blacks
i. Mulattoes
b. Anti-slave Trade Act
c. Rural Slavery
d. Urban Slavery
e. Slave Women
f. Celia Story
g. Slave Family
h. Slave Community
i. Spirituals
j. Slave Religion and Folklore
k. Slave Rebellions
Abolitionist Methods and their Effectiveness
Defense of Slavery Arguments
Chapter 13 Reflection
Rise of a Unique American Cultural Identity
Key Terms
1. Rational Religion
a. Calvinism
b. Deism
c. Unitarianism
d. Universalism
2. Second Great Awakening
3. Transcendentalism
4. Romanticism
5. Transcendentalism
a. Emerson
b. Thoreau
6. Mormons
7. Hawthorne
8. Dickinson
9. Irving and Cooper
10. Poe
11. Melville
12. Whitman
13. Popular Press
14. Public and Higher Education
15. Popular Education
16. Temperance Movement
17. Prison/Asylum Reform
18. Women’s Suffrage Movement
19. Utopian Communities