1. AP US History
Week 11

2. Objectives This Week... 03.03 The Market Revolution
03.04 Defining Borders
Chapter 9: The Market Revolution,

3. 3.03 The Market Revolution 3.03 Introduces the Document Based Question
DBQ tests your historical analytical skills, your ability to interpret sources, and synthesize what you know into an effective response

4. DBQ
Thesis
Be aware of which Historical Analytical Skill you are using: cause and effect, change and continuity, comparing historical events, connecting events to broader historical trends

5. DBQ
On the AP exam you will have 7 documents. You have to use at least 6, but many advise to use all of them
Use standard essay format: Intro (w/context and thesis), body paragraphs, and conclusion

6. DBQ
Body Paragraphs: Deep analysis for at least 4 of the documents. That means discussing the author’s point-of-view, purpose of the author, intended audience of the document, or historical context.
(Using more than 4 will help if you make a mistake on one of the documents)
Put in (Doc 1) which document you are using

7. DBQ
You need to relate the documents to each other and their time period.
Make connections between the documents. Note differences and agreements between them that help you strengthen your argument
You must bring in outside information

8. 3.03 The Market Revolution
Historical Question: Analyze the effects of the Market Revolution from 1800 through 1860 to determine which were the most significant.
You are discussing the effects of the Market Revolution! Think about the impact the Market Revolution had on society, economy, politics, etc!
Read and analyze all seven documents
Think about the HAP-P chart for each document
Fill out chart. Use at least 6 of the documents to support your three main points

9. 3.04 Quiz What you need to know Reasons for expanding westward
Disputes with Great Britain over land after The War of 1812
Louisiana Purchase
Missouri territory
Sectional tensions and westward expansion
Monroe Doctrine
U.S. territory acquisition
Adams-Onis Treaty

10. Economic Freedom
Spread of market relations overseas, westward movement of the population, rise of rigorous political democracy reshaped the idea of freedom

11. Transportation
Catalysts were innovation in transportation and communication
Steamboat, canal, railroad, and telegraph
Americans had “annihilated space and time

13. The West American freedom linked with land ownership
Manifest Destiny- America had the divinely appointed mission, so obvious as to be beyond dispute, to occupy all of North America

14. Florida
Owned by Spain, populated by runaway slaves and hostile American Indians
Sold to U.S. in the Adams-Onís Treaty

15. The Cotton Kingdom Demand for cotton sky rocketed all over the world
Eli Whitney and the cotton gin. Result: went from producing 5 million pounds of cotton/year to 170 million pounds/year
Result: American Indians forced off their land and massive trade in slaves

16. Market Society Farmers became commercialized
Work changed: went from working at home to factories
Beginning of mass production in the US
Child and female labor

17. Women
First time women in large numbers left their homes to participate in public world
However many only worked a few years and then left to marry

18. Immigration
Long distance travel improved; religious and political freedoms (revolutions of 1848); escape famine (Irish)
Between : 4 million immigrants came to the US

19. Nativism Hostility towards immigrants
Alien Act of denied any immigrant with “radical” political views
Protestants feared a Catholic takeover
Nativists blamed immigrants for urban crime, political corruption, taking jobs

20. Law
Laws shielded entrepreneurs from interference by local governments and liabilities
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
Gibbons v. Ogden

21. Religion Transcendentalists- self-reliance
The Second Great Awakening- added religious underpinning to self-determination, self- improvement, self-reliance
Mormons, The Book or Mormon

22. Limits “Self-made man”
Blacks were slaves in the South, but even free blacks were excluded from new opportunities
Black Institutions
Cult of Domesticity
Married women still could not sign contracts, husbands controlled their wages
Labor Movement

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