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CHAPTER 13: THE RISE OF MASS DEMOCRACY (Andrew Jackson and the
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1. What were the characteristics of the "new democracy?" Where was it most
popular?
2. Why did the growth in the new democracy take place in the 1820s?
3. Why did many Americans develop a hatred of the bank?
4. How did the Missouri Compromise lead many Southerners into politics?
5. What is a national nominating convention? Which party held one first?
6. Why did the election of 1824 go to the House? What was the outcome of their
vote?
7. Why is the election of 1824 called the "corrupt bargain?"
8. How would one characterize Adam's presidency?
9. Why was the Tariff of 1828 a source of controversy?
10. What was the "South Carolina Exposition?" Author? Impact?
11. How could Jackson's election in 1828 be considered a revolution?
12. What is the purpose of the spoils system?
13. What was the Hayne-Webster debate? Peggy Eaton affair?
14. Why did Jackson veto the Maysville Road Project?
15. Why did the "nullification crisis" of 1832 erupt?
16. What region had the most support for the Tariff of 1833?
17. What was Jackson's response to South Carolina's nullification of the tariff?
18. What were the results of the nullification crisis?
19. Why did Jackson veto the recharter of the Bank of United States?
20. What were some of the innovations in the election of 1832?
21. How and why did Jackson weaken the bank after the 1832 election?
22. Why did Jackson remove Native Americans from their lands in the 1830s?
23. Why did Americans move into Texas? Under whom?
24. What was the reason for the Texan Revolution? What was the involvement of
America in the fighting?
25. Why did Jackson and Van Buren hesitate to recognize Texas?
26. What lead to the formation of the Whig party?
27. What happened to the American banking system under Jackson?
28. Why did the Whigs nominate Harrison in 1840?
29. What was the major issue in the election of 1840?
30. What were the characteristics of the major parties by the 1840s?
Possible Essay Topics for (Unit Four) Last part of Chapter 12 and Chapter
13:
1. As white Americans expanded across the continent in the first half of the 19th
century, they regularly encountered and came into conflict with the Native
American Population. Based on your knowledge of the period 1800-1850,
discuss the interaction between whites and Indians in the period, focusing on
the goals of the whites and various Indian responses.
CHAPTER 20: GIRDING FOR WAR: THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH, 1861-
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2. How did Lincoln approach the Ft. Sumter crisis? What action did he finally take?
3. What action did Lincoln take to persuade the Border States to remain in the
Union?
4. What was the original goal in the war as stated by Lincoln?
5. What side did the Indians tend to side with?
6. What advantages did the South possess? Disadvantages?
7. What advantages did the North possess? Disadvantages?
8. What supposed asset for the South at the beginning of the war never
materialized?
9. Why did the British refuse to break the Union blockade?
10. What event nearly pushed the Union and the British to war?
11. What actions did France take during the Civil War?
12. How did the concept of states' rights impact the Southern war effort?
13. How did the different presidents run their nations during the war?
14. How did the North get their troops? South?
15. What was the National Banking System?
16. What was the impact of the war on the Northern economy? Southern economy?
17. How did the North and the South pay for the Civil War?
CHAPTER 21: THE FURNACE OF CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865
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1. What was the impact of the Battle of Bull Run?
2. What was the impact of the Peninsula campaign? How did it change Union goals?
3. What was the Anaconda Plan?
4. What the major events of the war at sea?
5. What was the importance of the Battle of Antietam Creek?
6. What were the terms of the Emancipation Proclamation? Was it constitutional?
7. What legally abolished slavery in the United States?
8. What was the impact of the Emancipation Proclamation on the war effort?
9. Did blacks served in the war effort? To what extent?
10. Why did Lee attempt to invade the North? Impact of Gettysburg?
11. What was the importance of Vicksburg? Sherman's style of warfare?
12. Who were the Copperheads? What was the Union party in 1864?
13. Who was the Democratic candidate in 1864? Republican/Union Party? Who won
and why?
14. What was Grant's strategy to end the war?
15. What were the terms to end the war? What was the impact of the war?
Possible Essay Topics for (Unit Nine) Chapters 29, 30, 31:
1. To what extent did the roles of women change in the years 1880 to 1920?
2. What were the different responses in the African American community to the
establishment of Jim Crow segregation through legislation and custom in the
American South (1880-1910)?
3. What were the main issues, ideas, and events of the Progressive Era during
the period 1900-1915?
4. Assess the contributions of TWO of the following to the influence and reforms
of the Progressive movement:
• middle class
• muckrakers
• philosophy of pragmatism
• presidential leadership
5. Progressives believed that greater democracy was the key to solving society’s
problems. Identify TWO problems that the Progressives addressed and for
each, describe a democratic reform that was designed to deal with the
problem
6. Discuss how President Wilson could argue that his foreign policy was still
committed to peace after he asked Congress for a declaration of war
7. Assess the influence of the United States’ involvement in World War I on TWO
of the following:
• African Americans
• civil liberties
• women
• business
8. Compare and contrast U.S. foreign policy from 1914-1917 with U.S. foreign
policy from 1801-1812.