Mrs. Ruland's Advanced Placement United States History Class

Unit 5 Study Guide

Unit 5 — The Rise of America, 1800-1844

Facts to Know

Chapter 10 — Rails, Markets, and Mills: The North and West, 1800-1860

1. The emergence of postwar nationalism, and its impact on United States domestic policy.
2. The role of the Supreme Court under the direction of Chief Justice John Marshall in the strengthening of federal authority relative to state authority; the use of Federalist nationalism to protect the interests of commerce and capital.
3. The objectives of John Quincy Adams as secretary of state, and the extent to which he was able to achieve his objectives.
4. The circumstances that led to the Monroe Doctrine, and its significance.
5. The issues in the debate over statehood for Missouri and the provisions of the Missouri
   Compromise.
6. The characteristics of a market economy, and how the change from a subsistence economy to a market economy affected people's lives.
7. The promotion of economic growth and geographic expansion by government from 1816 to 1845, and the ideological basis for such promotion.
8. The impact of the transportation revolution on the economic development of American society.
9. The emergence of commercial farming in the first half of the nineteenth century and the impact of this development on the Northeast and the Old Northwest.
10. The factors responsible for the emergence of "the cotton South," and the impact of the cotton boom on southern society.
11. The American system of manufacturing, and the factors that contributed to industrial development in the United States between 1816 and 1845.
12. The development of the cotton textile industry in the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century.
13. The development of commercial specialization in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century and its consequences.
14. The changes in the banking industry in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century and how those changes affected commerce and industry.
15. The changes that occurred in the workplace and in the nature of work in the period from 1816 to 1845, and the impact of those changes on workers' attitudes; on the relationship between employer and employee; on relationships among workers; and on gender and work.
16. The responses of workers to changes in the workplace and in the nature of work, the means by which they tried to achieve their aims and objectives, and the extent to which they were successful.
17. The expansion of the United States in land and people from 1816 to 1845, and the
    consequences of this expansion.
18. The policies of the United States toward Native Americans during the first half of the nineteenth century and the Indians' varying responses to those policies.

Chapter 11 — Slavery and the Growth of the South, 1800-1860

1. The similarities and differences between the North and the South in the period from 1830 to 1860.
2. The arguments advanced by southerners to justify the institution of slavery.
3. The impact of an expansive, agrarian, slave-based economy on the development of southern society during the first half of the nineteenth century.
4. The characteristics of the lives of yeoman farmers, landless whites, and free blacks, and the value system of each.
5. The characteristics of the lives of slaveowners, and their value system as well as their attitudes toward slavery, blacks, and women.
6. The lives and attitudes of southern women in the first half of the nineteenth century.
7. The conditions under which slaves lived their lives.
8. The development of a distinctive African American culture.
9. The attitudes of blacks toward slavery and toward whites, and the extent and nature of black resistance to the institution of slavery.
10. The impact of slavery on southern values, customs, and laws.
11. The relations between planters and yeomen between 1830 and 1860.

Chapter 12 — Among Strangers and Friends: People and Communities, 1800-1860

1. The characteristics of rural life in American society from 1830 to 1860.
2. The interest in and the emergence of utopian communities in American society during the early nineteenth century, and the ideas associated with these communities.
3. The emergence of California as the population center on the West coast in the late 1840s and early 1850s, the experiences of “the forty-niners”, and the integration of California into the national market economy.
4. The expansion of urban areas in early nineteenth-century American society, the problems associated with that expansion, and the attempts to solve those problems.
5. The spread of public education in American society in the early nineteenth century.
6. The changes in leisure time and in recreational activities in the urban environment of early nineteenth-century American society.
7. The emergence and characteristics of each of the following, and their impact on early
   nineteenth-century American society.
   a. Popular journalism
   b. Popular literature
   c. Theater
   d. Sports
   e. Exclusive clubs and associations
8. The nature, extent, and causes of urban conflict in American society during the first half of the nineteenth century.
9. The lives of the urban poor contrasted with the lives of the urban elite.
10. The impact of economic change and urbanization during the first half of the nineteenth century on the family, gender roles, and women.
11. The similarities and differences between Irish and German immigrants' reasons for immigration, and the characteristics of the early nineteenth-century immigrants and their lives.
12. The lives of free blacks within nineteenth-century American society, and the ways in which they attempted to deal with their status.
    

Chapter 13 — Reform, Politics and Expansion, 1824-1844

1. The causes, characteristics, and consequences of the Second Great Awakening.
2. The ideas, leaders, and contributions of the following reform movements in early nineteenth-century American society.
   a. The antiprostitution movement
   b. The temperance movement
   c. The movement to establish penitentiaries, insane asylums, and other social institutions
   d. The women's movement
3. The Antimasonry movement, and its impact on American politics.
4. The growth of the antislavery movement, and its impact on American society during the first half of the nineteenth century.
5. The issues in the presidential election of 1828, and the election's outcome.
6. The characteristics of the second party system, and the political, social, and economic philosophies of the Jacksonian Democrats and the Whigs.
7. How the political, social, and economic ideology of the Jacksonian Democrats was translated into policy during the terms of President Jackson and President Van Buren, and the impact of these policies on the United States.
8. The domestic failures and the foreign policy accomplishments of the Tyler administration.
9. The emergence of expansionist sentiment in the 1830s and 1840s, and the debates over the Texas and Oregon territories.
10. The issues in the presidential election of 1844, and the election's outcome.

Quizzes

• Textbook Quiz — chapter 10     chapter 11      chapter 12      chapter 13
• Mrs. Pojer's Quizzes
  • Early Industrialization & Economic Growth  A   B  
  • The Age of Jackson  A    B    C   
  • Reform Movements   A    B   
  • Westward Expansion & Manifest Destiny   A    B    C   
  • American Society: 1800 - 1860   A   

Documents

• Proprietors of the Charles River Bridge vs. (1837)
• Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin (1794)
• Lowell Factory Rules (1848)
• Rules for Husbands and Wives (1830)
• Domestic Economy (1841)
• Veto of the Bank of the United States (1832)
• Removal of the Eastern Indians (1840)
• Manifest Destiny (1845)

Study Aids

• Mrs. Ruland's Notes
  • Advancements in Industrial America
  • Transportaion and Economic Change
  • Completing the Revolution
  • Henry David Thoreau Jailed for Refusing to Pay Tax
  • The Democrats and the Whigs
  • The Long Bitter Trail
  • The Trail of Tears
• From Revolution to Reconstruction - An Outline of American History
  • Chapter Five: Westward Expansion and Regional Differences
• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Modules on Major Topics
  • The Jacksonian Era
  • Pre-Civil War Reform
  • Slavery
  • Westward Expansion
• Digital History
  • Guided Readings
    • The Roots of American Economic Growth
    • The Struggle for Public Schools
    • Westward Expansion
    • Jacksonian Democracy
    • Pre-Civil War American Culture
    • Pre-Civil War Reform
    • Pre-Civil War South
    • Religion and the Early Republic
  • Explorations
    • Learn About the Jacksonian Era
    • Learn About Pre Civil War Reform
    • Learn About Slavery
    • Learn About Westward Expansion
  • Jacksonian Democracy
  • Indian Removal
  • Political Battles of the Jacksonian Era
  • An Industrializing Nation
  • Religion and Social Reform
  • Slavery
  • Slavery Fact Sheet
  • A Chronology of Anti-Slavery
  • Manifest Destiny
• George Burson, Aspen CO
  • The United States: 1789-1824
  • The United States: 1824-1848
• Academic American History, Henry J. Sage, Northern Virginia Community College
  • The Age of Jefferson and Jackson, 1800-1840
• Mr. Feldmeth - Polytechnic School, Pasadena CA
  • Sectionalism and National Growth - outline
  • Jacksonian Era - outline
  • Reform Movements in 19th Century America - outline
  • Expansionism and Manifest Destiny - outline
  • Mexican-American War Events - chart
  • The Peculiar Institution of American Slavery - outline
• Timeline- 1801 to 1850 (Mr. Wood, Murray HS, Murray UT)
• Presidential Election Data (David Leip) — 1824    1828    1832    1836    1840    1844
• Cram Sheet (Renata Melamud) —   John Quincy Adams through Pierce
• The Ambiguous Democracy in America, 1800-1848 (Crossroads)
• OHTI Lesson Plans
  • The Cotton Gin
  • Lowell and the Factory System
  • Indian Removal
• Divining America: Religion and the National Culture
  • African American Religion in the Nineteenth Century
  • The American Jewish Experience: Immigration and Acculturation
  • Evangelicalism, Revivalism, and the Second Great Awakening
  • Evangelicalism as a Social Movement
  • Mormonism and the American Mainstream
  • Roman Catholics and Immigration in Nineteenth-Century America

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