Assignment #1
 
Sources:
• textbook
 
Questions:
1 Why was education "central to the Republican vision of America?"
2 What effect did Republican ideology have on education in the United States?
3 Explain the "cultural independence" that Jeffersonian Americans sought.  What means of expression did this "independence" find?
4 What were the obstacles faced by Americans who aspired to create a more elevated national literary life?  What efforts were made to overcome these obstacles?
5 What sort of works by American authors were most influential?  Why?
6 How did the American Revolution affect traditional forms of religious practice?  What challenges to religious traditionalism arose during this period?
7 What caused the Second Great Awakening?
8 Why were the Methodists, the Baptists, and the Presbyterians so successful on the frontier?
9 What was the "message" and the impact of the Second Great Awakening?  What impact did it have on women?  on African Americans?  on Native Americans?
10 Explain the reasons for the initial American ambivalence toward British industrialism.  What technological advances helped change this attitude?
11 What role did Eli Whitney play in America's Industrial Revolution?  What impact did his inventions have on the South?  on the North?
12 What effect did America's transportation system have on industrialization?
13 What were the characteristics of American population growth and expansion in the years between 1790 and 1800?
 
Terms:

• cultural nationalism • Judith Sargent Murray • Noah Webster • Washington Irving • Deism • revivalism

• Second Great Awakening • Charles G. Finney • Eli Whitney • Robert Fulton • Clermont • "Turnpike Era"

Assignment #2
 
Sources:
• textbook
• document:  Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address [1801].
• worksheet:  "Supreme Court Case Analysis Sheet."
 
Questions:
1 What were the fundamental principles of Jeffersonian democracy?
2 How were the new generation of "Younger" Federalists different from their late 18c counterparts?
3 How did Jefferson's presidency represent a fundamental change in the direction of the federal government?
4 How did political campaigning change in the early 19c?
5 Why were the Federalists opposed to this new type of political campaigning?
6 What reform was made to avoid the problems caused by the 1800 presidential election?
7 Why did Aaron Burr hate Alexander Hamilton so much?  What was the "Burr Conspiracy?"
8 What role did Tenskwatawn [the "Prophet"] play in Native American resistance to further American westward expansion in the early 19c?
9 What was Tecumseh's agenda?  Was it achieved?
10 Why did the United States feel that is neutrality rights were being violated by Britain and France in 1805-1807?
11 What was the impact of the Chesapeake incident on Anglo-American relations?
12 How economically and politically effective was the Embargo Act?  What role did it play in the 1808 presidential election?
1 What problem was solved/not solved by the Non-Intercourse Act?    by Macon's Bill #2?
 
Terms:

• Pierre L 'Enfant • Jeffersonian democracy • We are all Republicans; we are all Federalists! • Albert Gallatin • Barbary Pirate [Tripolitanian] Wars • Marbury v. Madison (1803) • writ of mandamus • judicial review

• John Marshall • Samuel Chase • Toussaint L'Ouverture • Louisiana Purchase • Lewis & Clark Expedition • Sacagawea • Zebulon Pike • Essex Junto • "Burr Conspiracy"

Assignment #3
 Sources:
• textbook
 
Questions:
1 Who were the "War Hawks?"
1 What role did Dolly Madison play during her husband's presidency?
2 How prepared was America for war in 1812?  Where was recruitment appealing?  Where did it not go well and why?
3 What were the successes and failures of the American military in the first year of the war?
4 Explain President Madison's strategic vision for the invasion of Canada.  Why did it fail?
5 What were the causes/effects of the British invasion of 1814?
6 How was Andrew Jackson already making a military name for himself in the first years of the war?
7 What effect did the Battle of New Orleans have on the war?   on Andrew Jackson's career?
8 List the provision of the Treaty of Ghent?
9 Identify the immediate and long-term effects of the War of 1812 on America.
10 Why did New England oppose the War of 1812?
11 What effect did the Hartford Convention have on Federalist policy?
1 Was the War of 1812 "America's Second War for Independence?"
 
Terms:

• Continental System • Berlin Decrees (1806) • Milan Decree (1807) • impressment • Chesapeake-Leopard Affair • Embargo Act of 1807 • Macon's Bill No. 2

• Gen. William Henry Harrison • The Prophet, Tenskwatawa • Tecumseh • "War Hawks" • John C. Calhoun (SC) • Henry Clay (KY) • "Mr. Madison's War"

• Francis Scott Key • Battle of New Orleans • Andrew Jackson • Hartford Convention • Treaty of Ghent (1814) • Rush-Bagot Agreement (1818) • John Quincy Adams

Assignment #4
 Sources:
• textbook

Questions:
1 What were the major components of Madison's post-war agenda?  How did he inspire a wave of nationalism?
2 Why was the Monroe presidency called the "Era of Good Feelings?"
3 Who were the leading exponents of the "national" over the "local" or "sectional" point of view that arose after the War of 1812?  What factors contributed to the growth and development of this attitude?
1 What were the programs proposed by the "nationalists" to deal with problems of currency and credit, "infant industries," and transportation?  How ere these separate programs linked together into a cohesive plan to develop America?
2 What was the "internal improvements bill?"  How did it fit into the nationalists' program, and what happened to it?
3 What were the general characteristics of the westward movement after the War of 1812?  What geographic factors affected the decisions of where to settle?
4 How did the advance of the southern frontier differ from the advance of settlement in the North?
5 What kind of trade developed between the western regions of North America and the United States in the early 19c?
6 Why were the leaders of New England disturbed at the nomination and election of James Monroe for president?  What did Monroe do to calm their fears?
7 Why did the United States want to annex Florida?  How did the Adams-Onis negotiations resolve the issue?
1 What were the causes of the Panic of 1819?  What political and economic issues did the Panic raise?
 
Terms:

• Second Bank of the US • National Road • Tariff of 1816

• "Era of Good Feeling" •First Seminole War (1817-1818) • Adams-Onis Treaty (1819) • Panic of 1819

Assignment #5
 
Sources:
• textbook
• worksheet:  "Supreme Court Case Analysis Sheet."
 
Questions:
1 What was the purpose of the Tallmadge Amendment introduced in the House in 1819?
2 What were the major elements of disagreement in the debate over the admission of Missouri into the Union?
3 What were the provisions of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
4 How was this "compromise" not a long-term solution to the problem of slavery in the Western territories?  What other problems did it create for the future?
5 What was the net effect of the opinions delivered by the Marshall Court?  How did these opinions reflect John Marshall's philosophy of government?
6 Who led the opposition to the Marshall Court?  What was the position they took in denouncing it?
7 How were the nationalist inclinations of the Marshall Court visible in its decisions concerning the legal status of Indian tribes within the United States?
8 How was it that the United States' proclamation of neutrality in the wars between Spain and its colonies actually aided the colonies?  Why did the United States do this?
9 What was the Monroe Doctrine?  Why was it announced?  What was its significance?
10 Why was the caucus system viewed with such disdain before the election of 1824?
11 Who were the candidates in the 1824 presidential election?  What "problem" arose during this election?  How was it resolved?
12 How did the election of 1824 signal the end of the "Era of Good Feelings?"
13 What did John Quincy Adams plan to accomplish during his presidency?  What role was the federal government to play in these plans?  How successful was he?
14 What problems brought on the tariff debates of 1827 and 1828?  In what way did the South respond to northeastern demands for a higher tariff?  On what did the anti-tariff forces base their stand?
15 What was the outcome of these tariff debates?  Why was it that few were pleased with those results?
16 How had Andrew Jackson's supporters prepared for the election of 1828?  What were the issues in the campaign?
17 Who were the National Republicans?  their leaders? 
1 What programs did the National Republicans support?  From what areas did they draw their strength?
 
Terms:

• Tallmadge Amendment • Missouri Compromise (1820) • A fire bell in the night... • Fletcher v. Peck (1810) • Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)

• McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) • Cohens v. Virginia (1821) • Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) • Johnson v. McIntosh (1823) • Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831) • Worcester v. Georgia (1832)

• Monroe Doctrine (1823) • "King Caucus" • American System • "Corrupt Bargain" • Tariff of Abomination

 

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