UNIT THREE STUDY QUESTIONS AND TERMS Chapter 7, 8, 9 Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian Era 1. What were Jefferson s ideas about education? 2. How were southern private schools different from northern private schools? 3. What inspired some to reconsider the value of female education? 4. Were there efforts to educate African Americans during this period? 5. What was included in the average college education? 6. How did George Washington probably die? 7. What changes took place in the handling of childbirth during the nineteenth century? 8. For what did Jedediah Morse and Noah Webster advocate? 9. Why do Americans spell honor without a u? 10. What did Charles Brockden and Washington Irving contribute to American culture? 11. What impact did the American Revolution have on religious practice? 12. Who were the religious skeptics of the day? 13. What were Universalism and Unitarianism? 14. Were these expressions of rationalism a mark of the end of traditional evangelical religion? 15. What religious groups drove the revival/ awakening? 16. Why did the evangelicals often denounce the New Light Dissenters?
17. What were possible reasons for such wide participation among women in the Second Great Awakening? 18. Did African American play a role in the Second Great Awakening? 19. What about Native Americans? To what extent did they participate in the Second Great Awakening? 20. Where did the Industrial Revolution begin? 21. What did England do to prevent the industrialization of the United States? 22. Provide an example of technology spreading to the U.S. through immigrants. 23. What impact did the cotton gin have on the economy and on laborers in the U.S.? 24. Did Eli Whitney produce anything else that was noteworthy? 25. What advancements were made in transportation during the early stages of the industrialization of the US? 26. What was the turnpike era? 27. Who did Thomas Jefferson defeat in 1800? Who did he defeat in 1804? 28. Where was the nation s capital? 29. How did Jefferson change the public debt? 30. Why did he want to keep the army small? 31. Describe the issue that Jefferson s government had with Tripoli. 32. What was the purpose of the Judiciary Act of 1801? 33. Who was the true winner in the Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison?
34. Who was Chief Justice at the time of this ruling? 32.What were Napoleon s goals in the Western Hemisphere? 35. Who negotiated the Louisiana Purchase? 36. What controversy surrounded the Louisiana Purchase? 37. What service did Lewis, Clark and Sacajawea provide for the country? 38. What inspired such bad feelings between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton? 39. What two conflicts took shape during Jefferson s presidency that led to a war with Great Britain? 40. Why did British sailors think that they had the right tot stop and search American ships? 41. What happened on the Chesapeake? 42. Why did Congress pass the Embargo Act (1807)? The Non-Intercourse Act ( 1810)? 43. What was Jefferson s offer to the Native Americans? 44. What role did William Henry Harrison play in the negotiations? 45. Who did Tecumseh work to unite? 46. What occurred at the Battle of Tippecanoe? 47. How was the Florida issue fuel for the war fever between the US and Britain? 48. Who were the war hawks? 49. In what army did Tecumseh serve?
50. Who did Jackson defeat in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend? 48. Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner? When? Where? 49.What was to happen to the lands that were taken from the Native Americans during the war? 51. What were two main goals of the U.S. during this period? Aaron Burr- American Shipping- Camp meetings- Cane ridge- Deism- Eli Whitney- Embargo Act- Handsome Lake- Hartford Convention- Impressment- Industrialism- John Marshall-
Judicial Review- Judith Sargent Murray- Louisiana Purchase- Marbury v. Madison- Mercy Otis Warren- Neolin- New Light Dissenters- Noah Webster- Robert Fulton- Samuel Slater- Second Great Awakening- Tecumseh- The Embargo- The Prophet ( Tesnkwatawa- Toussaint L Ouverture- War Hawks- War of 1812-
Washington Irving- William Henry Harrison- Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism 1. How did the War of 1812 stimulate manufacturing? 2. What weaknesses were exposed during the war? 3. How was the Second Bank of the U.S. different from the first? 4. What sparked the growth of the textile industry? 5. What caused the post war economic slowdown? 6. What did protectionists hope for? Who were they? 7. Who disliked the tariffs? 8. What is one benefit of having the government get involved with building infrastructure ( roads)? 9. Who felt the consequences of not having enough roads? 10. President Madison wanted internal improvements. What congressman stepped up and introduced the bill for it? 11.Why did Madison veto it on his last day in office?
12.Compare population growth in the west to that of the rest of the country following the War of 1812 13.Why were moving westward in such large numbers? Provide three reasons. 14. Why were some cotton growers moving westward? 15. Where was a strong fur trade economy growing in the country? 16. What was Jackson s justification for invading Florida? 17. Was Jackson held responsible for this action? 18. How were Jackson s actions perceived by the Spanish? 19. What was the final outcome? 20.What caused the depression and Panic of 1819? 21. Why was Missouri s application for statehood controversial? 22. Where was slavery prohibited as per the Thomas Amendment ( the Missouri Compromise? 23. Briefly describe John Marshall s legacy on the Supreme Court.
24. Fletcher v. Peck, a Marshall decision, determined that contracts were valid even in cases of. 25. Who argued to protect the charter for Dartmouth College in Dartmouth College v. Woodward? 26. What was upheld/confirmed by Marshall in the case McCulloch v. Maryland? 27. What were southern states trying to do to prevent the bank from succeeding? 28.What was Daniel Webster s argument about states taxing the bank? 29. What was decided in the Johnson v. McIntosh decision? 30. What was the state of Georgia attempting to do with Cherokee land? 31. How did the Marshall court define the relationship between the US government, state governments and the Native American tribes? 32.Name an effect of the Monroe Doctrine. 33.What was the American System? 34.Why did Jackson lose the election in 1824 election? 35.Who won the election of 1828? Terms Adams-Onis Treaty-
American System- Francis Cabot Lowell- Gibbons v. Ogden- Henry Clay- John Quincy Adams- McCulloch v. Maryland- Missouri Compromise- Monroe Doctrine- Sectionalism- Seminole war- Sequoyah- Stephen Long- Tallmadge Amendment- Transportation improvements- Worcester v. Georgia-
Chapter 9: Jacksonian Era 1. The chapter opens with an anecdote about an incident in Andrew Jackson's early years when he was captured by British sailors. What happened? 2. What did Andrew Jackson study? 3.Did Jackson own slaves? 4.What are three items that stand out in Jackson's legacy? 5.What was Daniel Webster's belief about property and voting? 6.What did the Dorrites believe? 7.Name a few achievements in the democratization of the vote in the nineteenth century. 8.What was the general theme of Tocqueville's work Democracy in America? 9.The expanded electorate was only part of the reason for the high level of voter participation. What else factored in? 10.Were parties always a part of the republic? 11.What was Martin Van Buren political organization known as in New York State? 12.What was their argument about parties? 13.Jackson is believed to have had a simple political belief. What was it? 14.Jackson embraced the spoils system. What was it?
15.Why did Jackson try to get rid of the congressional caucus? 16.Jackson's supporteres were the first to hold 17.What were Jackson's concerns about Washington? 18.Who was Jackson's vice president? 19.Why were many South Carolinians calling the tariff of 1816 the tariff of abominations? 20.What is the theory of nullification? 21. What sectional controversy was debated in 1830 by Robert Hayne and Daniel Webster? 22. Calhoun coached Hayne for the next part of the debate. For what did he want Hayne to argue? 23.In what way did this situation worsen in 1832? 24.How did President Jackson respond to Hayne and Calhoun? 25.How did Henry Clay calm the matter down? 26.Who was Black Hawk? 27.What did Black Hawk refuse to recognize? 28.Black Hawk and his followers resettled the area in Illinois that was controversial. How did white setllers respond? 29.Who won the Black Hawk War?
30.After the the Sauks and Foxes were defeated and retreating across the Mississippi into Iowa, what action did the US military take? 31.Who were known as the five civilized tribes? Why were they called this? 32.What was the Removal act meant to do? How? 33.What was President Jackson's reaction to the Marshall court decision, Worcester v. Georgia? 34.On what grounds did the state of Georgia aided by 7,000 US military remove the Cherokee in a forced march from the state of Georgia? 35.Approximately how many of the Cherokee died while on the Trail of Tears? 36. Who won the Seminole War? Who fought? 37.Who ran the national bank during Jackson's presidency? 38. What two groups opposed the bank? 39.What did Jackson do to weaken the bank? 40.Who helped Jackson achieve his goals to crush the bank? 41.What did Biddle due to fight back? 42.Briefly describe the political philosophy of the Whigs. 43.Who were the Great Triumvirate? 44.What was Clay's American System?
45.What caused the panic of 1837?. 46.Who beat Martin Van Buren in 1840? What happened to him a month into his presidency? 1. How many presidencies did the Whigs win in US history? Terms Andrew Jackson- Anti-Masonry- Aroostook War- Bank War- Caroline Affair- Daniel Webster- Democrats- Dorr Rebellion- Five Civilized Tribes- Indian Territory- John C. Calhoun- John Tyler- Martin Van Buren- Nicholas Biddle-
Nullification- Panic of 1837- Removal Act- Roger Taney- Seminole War- Specie Circular- Spoils System- Trail of Tears- Webster-Ashburton Treaty- Webster-Hayne Debate- Whigs- William Henry Harrison-