Topic #8 Overview Sheet
 
  Assignment #1
 

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Questions:
  1. What were the reasons for the rapid increase in population between 1820 and 1840?  What were the effects of this increase?
  2. What were the major immigrant groups that came to the United States and where did they settle?
  3. What population shifts took place between 1820 and 1840?  How did they affect political divisions?
  4. Why was the rise of New York City so phenomenal?  What forces combined to make it America's leading city?
  5. How did the foreign-born population become a major factor in American political life between 1820 and 1850?  What elements considered this an "alien menace" and what was their response?
  6. Why did Americans continue to use, whenever possible, water routes for transportation and travel?  What advantages did water have over land?
  7. Why were natural means of carrying commerce [lakes and rivers] unsatisfactory to most Americans?
  8. How did Americans propose to overcome the geographic limitations on water travel?  What role was the federal government forced to play in this?  Why?
  9. What were the "water power towns"?  How did they relate to the streams that served them?
  10. Which area took the lead in canal development?  What was the effect of these canals on that section of the country?  How did other sections respond to this example?
  11. What were the general characteristics of early railroad development in the United States?
  12. What innovations aided the progress of railroads?  What advantages did railroads have over other forms of transportation?
  13. How did innovations in communications and journalism draw communities together?  How did these innovations help divide the sections?
 

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  Assignment #2
 

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Questions:
  1. In the broadening of business described in your textbook, what shifts in manufacturing took place?  What business innovations occurred?
  2. What effect did all of these innovations have on the general distribution of goods in America?
  3. What influence did technology have on the growth of American industry?
  4. What forces contributed to the rise of the factory in the Northeast?  How did this promote industrial development?
  5. What role did American inventors and industrial ingenuity play in the growth of American industry?
  6. How did the textile mills recruit and use labor?  What was the general response to the Lowell method, by worker and by observer?
  7. What caused the breakdown of the Lowell [or Waltham] system?
  8. What was the "lot of working women" in Lowell and other factory towns?  How did this differ from conditions in Europe?
  9. What problems did the "Lowell girls" have in adjusting to factory and factory-town life?
  10. With the growth of industry came the growth of labor, but how did the rise of American labor organizations differ from the usual patterns of union growth?  What groups organized first, and why?
  11. What was the "factory system?"  What impact did it have on the American artisan tradition?
  12. What was the general condition of workers in northeastern factories?
  13. What attempts were made to better conditions in northeastern factories?  What role did unions play in these attempts?  What was accomplished?
 

Terms:
 
                
Quizzes:
  1. Textbook Quizzes -->  chapter 10
  2. My Quizzes -->  A     B

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Outlines / Lecture Notes / Review Sheets:
  1. Giant AHAP Review Sheet by a student from the class of '04, Horace Greeley HS
  2. Lecture outline --> "The Market Revolution" (Prof. David McGee, Central Virginia Community College)
  3. Timeline- 1801 to 1850
  4. Note Cards -->  351-400
  5. Presidential Election Data --> 1800    1804    1808    1812    1816    1820    1824
  6. Cram Sheet --> John Quincy Adams Through Franklin Pierce

 



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