Chapter
7 Questions
Section
1: Regional Economies Create Differences
1.
How
did Eli Whitney affect the South?
2.
How
did interchangeable parts & mass production affect production in the United
States?
3.
Why
did the Industrial revolution begin in the United States?
4.
How
did Jefferson help start the Industrial Revolution in the United States?
5.
Why
did New England industrialize?
6.
How
did textiles affect New England’s industrialization process?
7.
Why
is Lowell, MA important?
8.
Why
did Northerners turn away from agriculture?
9.
Why
did cotton “become king” in the South?
10. How did Whitney’s Cotton Gin change
the cotton industry?
11. How is slavery tied to the Cotton Gin?
12. Who proposed the American System?
13. Describe the American System.
14. Why did Madison propose the Tariff of
1816?
15. Why were the National Road & Erie
Canal important improvements to the United States?
Section
2: Nationalism at Center Stage
1.
Why
is Robert Fulton important?
2.
Explain
the issue in Gibbons v. Ogden.
3.
Explain
the decision in Gibbons v. Ogden.
4.
Explain
the issue in McCulloch v. Maryland.
5.
Explain
the decision in McCulloch v. Maryland.
6.
How
did nationalism influence John Quincy Adam’s policies at Secretary of State?
7.
How
did the United States gain Florida?
8.
Explain
the Monroe Doctrine.
9.
Why
did people move westward?
10. Why was there an issue with Missouri
becoming a state?
11. Describe the Missouri Compromise.
12. How did the Missouri Compromise affect
the United States?
Section 3: The Age of Jackson
1.
What
did the deaths of John Adams & Thomas Jefferson represent?
2.
Describe
the results of the Election of 1824.
3.
Why
was it decided that Adams won the presidential election?
4.
How
did Jackson’s supporters respond to the declaration of Adam’s being named
president?
5.
How
did Adams affect voting rights in the United States?
6.
How
did Jackson attempt to win the 1828 Election?
7.
In
your own words, describe Jackson’s “spoils system.”
8.
Do
you think the spoils system was a good idea or a bad one – and fully explain your
opinion.
9.
Who
were the “Five Civilized Tribes?”
10. Explain the Indian Removal Act of
1830.
11. Why is the “Trail of Tears” an
appropriate name for that event?
12. Explain the issue in Worcester v. Georgia.
13. Explain the decision in Worcester v. Georgia.
Section 4: Jackson, State’s Rights, and
the National Bank
1.
Why
was the 1828 tariff called an “abomination?”
2.
How
did the Tariff of 1828 affect the South?
3.
How
did the Tariff of 1828 affect the North?
4.
Why
did Vice President Calhoun devise a nullification theory?
5.
Why
didn’t Calhoun sign his name to his theory?
6.
Why
was the tariff question one of the great debate sin American history?
7.
What
was the key question at hand, as identified by Daniel Webster?
8.
Why
did South Caroline rebel in 1832?
9.
How
did Jackson respond to South Carolina’s actions?
10. Why did Jackson oppose the Bank of the
United States?
11. How did Jackson turn the American
public against the Bank of the United States?
12. Describe “pet banks.”
13. How did pet banks affect American
businesses?
14. Why did the Whig Party develop?
15. Describe the Panic of 1837.
