Period 4 Textbook Assignment
DUE: ________________________
Directions: Read Chapters 7 (231-245), 8 through 12.
Approximately 132 pages of text, over 9 nights = 15 pages/night before your Period 4 Assessment.
While reading, reflect and respond to the questions below…you get choices!  (MUST answer 30 total!)
Chapter 7: Out of the 3 questions below, you MUST answer ALL 3.
1. How was Jefferson’s agrarian vision reflected in his policies affecting western lands?
2. What do you think is the most persuasive explanations for the U.S.’s decision to declare war on Great
Britain in 1812? Explain.
3. Why do historians think the decisions of the Marshall Court constitute a Federalist legacy?
Chapter 8: Out of the 11 questions below, you MUST answer 6.
1. How did governments, banks, and merchants expand American commerce and manufacturing
between 1780 and 1820?
2. What factors encouraged AND inhibited equality and democracy in early 19 th century American life?
3. How did republican ideals, new economic circumstances, and changing cultural values affect marriage
practice?
4. Which form of child rearing /raising (rationalist OR authoritarian) was the most compatible with the
republican values AND why?
5. Why did aristocratic republicanism develop in the South AND what were its defining features?
6. Why did the colonization movement of the 1810s fail?
7. What compromises over slavery did Congress make to settle the Missouri crisis?
8. What were the main principles of the new republican religious regime?
9. How did evangelical and African churches differ from other Protestant denominations?
10. How was the Second Great Awakening similar to, and different from, the First Great Awakening of the
1740s?
11. Why did Protestant Christianity and Protestant women emerge as forces for social change?
Chapter 9: Out of the 9 questions below, you MUST answer 5.
1. How did the division of labor increase output, and what was its impact on workers?
2. What new types of products came out of American factories by the 1840s and 1850s?
3. How did the capitalist-run industrial economy conflict with artisan republicanism, and how did
workers respond?
4. Which was more important in the Market Revolution, government support for transportation OR
technological innovations? Why?
5. What different types of cities emerged between 1820 and 1860 and what caused their growth?
6. How and why did elite families change between 1800 and 1860?
7. What were the moral values and material culture of the urban middle class?
8. How did the urban, capitalist economy of the northeastern states affect the lives of poor workers?
9. What was Finney’s central message and how did it influence the work of reform movements?
Chapter 10: Out of the 10 questions below, you MUST answer 6.
1. What was the relationship between the growth of democracy and the emergence of political parties?
2. Why did Jacksonians consider the political deal between Adams and Clay “corrupt”?
3. What were the successes and failures of John Adams’ presidency? Explain
4. Jackson cut the national budget and the national debt but increased the number of federal
employees. How do you explain this paradox?
5. How did South Carolina justify nullification on constitutional grounds?
6. Why, and how, did Jackson destroy the Second National Bank?
7. How did the views of Jackson and John Marshall differ regarding the status and rights of Indians?
8. How did the Taney Court alter the American legal and constitutional system?
9. How did the ideology of the Whigs differ from that of the Jacksonian Democrats?
10. How did the Whigs and Democrats view women in politics, and why?
Chapter 11: Out of the 6 questions below, you MUST answer 4.
1. What were the main principles of transcendentalism?
2. What factors led to the proliferation of rural utopian communities in 19 th century America?
3. In what ways were Mormons similar to, and different from other communal movements of the era?
4. How and why did African American efforts to achieve social equality change between 1800 and 1840?
5. Which group of Americans opposed the abolitionists, and why did they do so?
6. What was the relationship between the abolitionist and women’s rights movements?
Chapter 12: Out of the 10 questions below, you MUST answer 6.
1. What factors drove the expansion of the domestic slave trade, and how did it work?
2. What were the effects of the slave trade on black families?
3. Between 1800 and 1860, what changes occurred in the South’s plantation crops, labor system,
defense of slavery, and elite planter lifestyle?
4. By 1860, what different groups made up the South’s increasingly complex society? How did they
interact?
5. What issues divided the Mexican government and the Americans in Texas?
6. How did the political power of slave owners affect tax policy and economic development in the south?
7. How did the Second Great Awakening affect the development of black religion?
8. In what respects did African cultural practices affect the lives of enslaved African Americans?
9. How successful were slaves in securing significant control over their lives?
10. How were the lives of free African Americans different in the northern and southern states?