APUSH Unit 6 Study Guide (Ch. 13 15) Name Date Make some notes about each item listed below. This assignment is a grade due at the time of notebook check (test day). Chapter 13 Political Parties in the 1830s and 40s 1. as checks and balances 2. voter participation 3. politicking Election of 1824 4. candidates 5. involvement of House of Representatives 6. corrupt bargain John Quincy Adams Presidency 7. success or lack of it 8. strengths and weaknesses Andrew Jackson s Presidency 9. which people supported him and why 10. spoils system define it 11. effects of the spoils system under Jackson Tariff of 1828 12. define/tell its purpose 13. tell which parts of the country it impacted/how/why South Carolina Exposition 14. whose idea was it/what was it about 15. what was the nullification crisis 16. what is the Force Bill of 1833 Native Americans 17. tell why Jackson s administration supported removal of Native Americans from the eastern states 18. describe Jackson s way of removing the Indian tribes
Bank of the United States 19. purpose during this time period 20. ramifications of Jackson s veto of the recharter bill Anti-Masonic party 21. what was it about Election of 1832 22. innovations Whigs 23. how they felt about Andrew Jackson 24. plan for winning the election of 1836 Texas 25. points of contention between government of Mexico and the Americans who settled in Mexican controlled Texas (issues they disagreed on) 26. how Texas gained independence 27. why the Spanish allowed Moses Austin to settle in Texas 28. Jackson and Van Buren s hesitation to annex Texas why? 29. which Americans settled in Texas and why Election of 1840 30. Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too who were they and why this slogan? 31. the story behind William Henry Harrison 32. commonalities of the Democratic and Whig parties Chapter 14 1. Describe life on the frontier. (288) 2. What were the conditions in cities due to dramatic growth between 1800 and 1860? (290-291) 3. Describe the influx of immigrants between 1840 and 1850 (how many?) (291) 4. What was Ireland s greatest export in the 1840s? (292)
5. What religion were most of the Irish immigrants in the early 19 th century? (292) 6. Where did the Irish settle when they arrived in the US and why did they not move further west? (292) 7. What religion were most German immigrants to the US? (293) 8. What was the Order of the Star Spangled Banner? (296) 9. Define nativism. (296) 10. What did native born Americans fear about the Catholic immigrants? (296-297) 11. Who was the father of the factory system? (300) 12. What was Eli Whitney noted for? (303) 13. What was the first industry of the American phase of the Industrial Revolution? (303) 14. How did the development of the cotton gin impact slavery? (302) 15. How did the use of interchangeable parts impact modern mass production? (303) 16. Who did the early factory system mostly benefit? (304) 17. Identify the inventions of the following people (304, 309, 310) a. Samuel Morse b. Cyrus McCormick c. Cyrus Field d. Robert Fulton 18. Characterize the American work force in the early 19 th century. (304-305) 19. What was the ruling in the case of Commonwealth v. Hunt? (305) 20. Define the cult of domesticity. (307) 21. What was happening to the size of early 19 th century families and why? (307)
22. What was the effect of the early 19 th century industrialization of the trans-allegheny West on both crops and farmers? (309-310) 23. What were the problems of western road building? (310) 24. Describe the canal era and where specifically did it begin (including the name and place of the first canal)? (312) 25. Where were most early railroads in the US built (part of the country a direction )? (313) 26. What happened to regional specialization as a result of the transportation revolution? (317) 27. What happened to average wages and standard of living as a result of the transportation and market revolutions? (318) Chapter 15 1. Compare the relative size of the First and Second Great Awakenings. (321-322) 2. What was the result of the religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening? (321-322) 3. What did Charles Grandison Finney advocate? (322) 4. Where did the Morman religion originate? (323) 5. What two religious sects (denominations) gained the most from the revivalism of the Second Great Awakening? (322-323) 6. Who is Joseph Smith? (323) 7. Describe the characteristics of the Mormon population, especially the characteristics that angered non Mormons. (323) 8. Why was tax supported education deemed essential?( 325-326) 9. What were some of the prejudices that inhibited women from obtaining higher education in the early 19 th century? (327)
10. How did the Second Great Awakening impact women in terms of becoming active in social reforms? (322 and 328) 11. What were two areas in the 19 th century that women were thought to be superior to men? (331) 12. What was Dorothea Dix noted for? (329) 13. What was thought to be the blame during the 1800s for the excessive consumption of alcohol by Americans? (329-330) 14. Why were sexual differences so strongly emphasized in 19 th century America? (331) 15. What were some of the signs that women were treated better in American than in Europe? (331) 16. What did the Maine Law of 1851 call for and who sponsored it? (330) 17. What was the cause of the decline of the Oneida colony? (337) 18. What were the founding ideals of MOST of the utopian communities in the pre 1860s? (333) 19. When it came to scientific achievement, what was the focus in America during the 1800s? (334) 20. What was the Hudson River School and what was it known for (it is not an actual school, by the way.) (347) 21. What was it that gave American literature a boost during this time period? (339) 22. Identify the major work of each of the writers below. (339-341) a. Washington Irving b. James Fenimore Cooper c. Ralph Waldo Emerson 23. What did transcendentalists believe? (340-341) 24. What region of the country did virtually all the distinguished historians of the early 19 th century come from? (345)