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Transforming Society and Jacksonian Democracy
Transforming Society and Jacksonian Democracy
Active Reading Questions
Active Reading Questions
Chapter 7 Section 1, 8 Section 1 and 2, Chapter 9, Chapter 10 Section 2 and 5
Chapter 7 Section 1, 8 Section 1 and 2, Chapter 9, Chapter 10 Section 2 and 5
Chapter 7
What effect did the system of canals roads and railroads that developed between 1815 and 1840 have on the nation as a whole?
Chapter 8 Section 1, Chapter 10 Section 3
During the rise in manufacturing in the early 19th century, what shifts in manufacturing took place, what business innovations occurred, and what effect did this have on the general distribution of goods in America?
Chapter 10 Section 5
What is the doctrine of separate spheres for women and how did it change their authority in society?
Why was the increasing wealth in America not widely or equitably distributed? What effect did this pattern have on mobility?
Chapter 9
Section 1
What were the general characteristics of Jacksonian Democracy, its philosophy, and its practice?
What were the the origins of the Calhoun-Jackson split? What effect did it have on the Jackson administration? How did each handle the crisis of states rights vs. national power..
Section 4
What was Jackson's opinion on the Bank of the United States, on money? On what did he base his views? How did he act on these views? What were the short term and long term consequences of these actions?
Section 3
Explain Jackson's view towards Indians and how he handled the situations that arose during his presidency.
FACTS: figures, people, and places. Be prepared to identify, define, describe, and explain the significance of the people, places, and events listed below. These are not all in the text but are all significant nonetheless.
FACTS: figures, people, and places. Be prepared to identify, define, describe, and explain the significance of the people, places, and events listed below. These are not all in the text but are all significant nonetheless.
1. Transportation revolution 2. John Jacob Astor 3. "mountain men" 4. Kit Carson 5. Jedidiah Smith 6. Jim Beckwourth 7. Five Civilized Tribes 8. Indian Removal Act, 1830 9. Cherokee Nation v. Georgia 10. Worchester v. Georgia 11. Trail of Tears 12. Black Hawk War 13. Eli Whitney 14. interchangeable parts 15. Panic of 1819 16. Robert Fulton 17. the Livingston-Fulton monopoly 18. Gibbons v. Ogden 19. Erie Canal 20. Samuel Slater 21. The putting out system 22. Boston Associates, 23. Waltham and Lowell Mills 24. Alexis de Tocqueville 25. Democracy in America 26. New York's Five Points district 27. Middling classes 28. Individualism 29. Doctrine of separate spheres 30. Andrew Jackson Downing 31. Henry Clay 32. American system 33. Second American party system 34. Spoils system 35. "Tariff of Abominations" 1828 36. John C. Calhoun 37. South Carolina Exposition and Protest 38. Compromise of 1833 39. Nicholas Biddle 40. Bank of the United States 41. "pet banks" 42. Specie Circular 43. Log Cabin campaign 44. "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" 45. Second Great Awakening 46. Burned-Over District 47. Charles G. Finney 48. William Ellery Channing 49. Unitarianism 50. Joseph Smith 51. Brigham Young 52. Mormonism 53. Lyman Beecher 54. American Temperance Society 55. Horace Mann 56. William Lloyd Garrison 57. The Liberator 58. Frederick Douglass 59. Sojourner Truth 60. James G. Birney 61. Liberty party 62. Angelina and Sarah Grimke 63. John Quincy Adams 64. "gag rule" 65. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 66. Lucretia Mott 67. Seneca Falls convention 68. Declaration of Sentiments 69. "Auburn and Pennsylvania systems" 70. Dorothea Dix 71. Robert Owen and New Harmony 72. Transcendentalists 73. Brook Farm 74. The Dial 75. John Humphrey Noyes 76. Oneida
Essential Questions: Think about these questions before, during, and after the reading you do. If you understand their complexity and feel confident in using information from the text and the supplementary reading in answering these very general questions, you should understand the period well.
Essential Questions: Think about these questions before, during, and after the reading you do. If you understand their complexity and feel confident in using information from the text and the supplementary reading in answering these very general questions, you should understand the period well.
1. What is the difference between Jeffersonian democracy and Jacksonian democracy?
2. What is the spoils system and how did Jackson justify using it? How did Jackson's enemies describe the spoils system?
3. Was Jacksonian democracy really democratic? Try to answer from your perspective and the perspective of someone in the time period.
4. Discuss the reform movements What inspired these reformers and what were their aims and accomplishments.
5. What is the connection between religious revival and reform?
6. Discuss the transportation revolution of 1815-1840. What changes took place and what was the impact on the country economically, politically and socially?
7. Discuss the federal government policy toward Native Americans during the period of 1815-1840.
8. What stimulated northeastern manufacturing in the years after the War of 1812 and how was this manufacturing different in New England than in New York or Philadelphia?
9. Discuss the origins and development of the 2nd party system, What did the parties stand for and what impact did their actions have on voter interest and participation in politics?
10. Compare the positions of the Democrats and Whigs on the issues of the proper role of the federal government, protective tariffs, internal improvements and banking.
11. How well did the Missouri Compromise work?
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