1. The Transformation of American Society 1815-1840

2. Causes of Westward Expansion
Describe American western migration in the first half of the 19th century.

3. Western Expansion Western Society and Culture
Describe Western society and culture. Comment specifically on gender and labor.

4. The Far West
Who were the Mountain Men?
Why are they significant?

5. Western Expansion Federal Government and the West
In what ways did the federal government impact the settlement of the West?

6. Western Expansion Removal of the Indians
Evaluate the impact of western expansion on Indians. Comment specifically on the role of the federal government.
What was the Treaty of Indian Springs in 1825?

7. Western Expansion Removal of Indians
How did President Andrew Jackson affect Native American and US relations?

8. Western Expansion Removal of Indians
Explain the role of the Supreme Court in Indian Removal
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)
Worcester v. Georgia

9. Growth of Market Economy
In what ways did farming for markets change after 1815?

10. First Turnpike- 1790 Lancaster, PA
By 1832, nearly 2400 mi. of road connected most major cities.

11. Growth of Market Economy Speculator and the Squatter
In what ways were speculators restrained by squatters?

12. Growth of Market Economy Moving Frontier
Explain the term ‘moving frontier’

13. Growth of Market Economy The Panic of 1819
What caused the Panic of 1819?
What is its significance?

14. Transportation Revolution: Steamboats
How did the steamboat affect transportation?

15. Growth of Market Economy Supreme Court and the Transportation Revolution
In what ways did the Supreme Court impact the transportation revolution?
Gibbons v. Ogden

16. Growth of Market Economy Transportation Revolution: Canal
What role did canals play in the rise of transportation?

17. Growth of Market Economy Transportation Revolution: Railroads
How did the economic depression of 1830s impact canal projects?

18. Growth of Market Economy Growth of Cities
In what ways did the transportation revolution impact growth of cities?

19. Industrial Beginnings
In what ways did industrialization change cities and the concept of work?

20. Industrial Beginnings Causes of Industrialization
What were the causes of industrialization?
Political
Environmental
Technological
Tensions in rural economy

21. Industrial Beginnings Textile Centers
What led to New England becoming America’s first industrial region?

22. Industrial Beginnings
How did Lowell System differ from Slater’s Mills?

23. Industrial Beginnings
In what ways did the mill experience differ from the work experience of the 18th century?

24. Industrial Beginnings Lowell Mill
In what ways were the Lowell Mills an atypical form of industrialization in the 1840s?

25. Industrial Beginnings Mill Girls
In what ways did Lowell employees advocate for change?

26. Industrial Beginnings Artisans and Workers in Mid-Atlantic Cities
How did skilled male artisans of Philadelphia and New York respond to to competition of cheap, unskilled labor?

27. Equality and Inequality Growing Inequality
To what extent was antebellum America a place of growing inequality?

28. Equality and Inequality Rich v. Poor
How did the lifestyles of the rich and poor compare?

29. Equality and Inequality Pauperism
What was Five Points?
What does this tell us about poverty in America?

30. Equality and Inequality Free Blacks in North
In what ways were blacks discriminated against in antebellum North?

31. Black Response
Who was Richard Allen?
Why is he significant?

32. The “Middling Classes”
Who were the “middling classes”? Describe their lifestyle.

33. Attack on Professions
In what specific ways were learned professions attacked?

34. Challenge to Family Authority
How did young men and women challenge traditional family authority?

35. Separate Spheres
In what ways were relationships between wives and husbands changing?

36. Separate Spheres
Describe how the birth rate changed throughout the 19th century.