2. Prompt Identify 4 causes or effects of the increase in suffrage from 1820 to 1840

3. Causes:
Fewer property or tax payer qualifications
Westward expansion; No landed elite in the west
Shift from republic of “virtuous” leaders to democracy of “common men”
Effects:
White men eligible to vote rose from 50% to 90% (universal white male suffrage)
Parties used new techniques to get common man votes
Rise of Jackson, Democrats, Whigs
Rise in voter participation

4. Prompt Identify as many people from this unit (1825-1840) & their claim to fame

5. Politics:
Tocqueville
JQ Adams
Henry Clay
Andrew Jackson
Van Buren
John C Calhoun
Harrison, Tyler
Nicholas Biddle
Peggy Eaton
John Marshall
Webster/Hayne
Literature:
Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Whitman
Emerson, Thoreau
Reform:
Dix, Stanton, Mott, Mann, Garrison, Douglass, Tubman
Charles G Finney
Economic:
Slater, Lowell, Whitney, Fulton, Deere, McCormick

6. Prompt Identify 3 causes & 3 effects of the nullification crisis

7. Causes:
High tariffs in 1828 & 1832 to promote industry
Tariff of Abom. Hurts the South
“States’ rights” by John C Calhoun
Precedents est in Jefferson’s KY Resolution & Webster;Hayne debate
Effects:
Jackson’s Force Bill asserted the nat'l gov't over the states
Clay’s compromise tariff in 1833
Precedents: Southern threats of secession & use of force by president to preserve unity

8. Prompt Identify “nationalism” & “sectionalism” trends from Jefferson to Jackson (1800-1840)

9. Nationalsim:
LA Purchase
“Victory” in War of 1812
Monroe & Era of Good Feelings
Monroe Doctrine, Adams-Onis, etc
Marshall Court
American System
Market & Transp. Revolutions
Indian Removal
Sectionalism:
Missouri Comp 1820
Nullification Crisis
Tariffs
States Rights
King Cotton
Growth of slavery
Growth in industry & cities in North
Rise of abolitionism

10. Prompt Identify 4 causes & 4 effects of the Bank War

11. Causes:
BUS & Biddle seen as elitist
BUS “caused” panics in the past
Constitutional?
Jackson’s rivalry with Clay
Clay’s desire to renew the BUS charter early as part of his prez campaign bid
Effects:
Jackson vetoed the re-charter & killed BUS via pet banks
Killed Am System
Increased power of presidency
Criticisms led to formation of Whigs
Helped lead to the Panic of 1837

12. Prompt Identify 8 changes that took place during the Early Antebellum Era (1800-1840)

13. Westward expansion & new U.S. borders
Emergence of King Cotton
Commercial overtook subsistence farming
Urbanization, Industrialization in North
Immigration (Irish, German, Nativism)
Common man & growth of democracy
Market & Transportation Revolutions
Removal of Indians east of Miss River
2nd Great Awakening & social reforms
Increased power of president
Elite, virtuous president to common man prez
Increasing nationalism & sectionalism
1 party (Dem-Rep) to 2 parties (Dems & Whigs)

14. Prompt Name 8 characteristics of the Market Revolution

15. Regional economic specialization:
Northern industry, urbanization, rise of the factory system (Lowell Mill)
Southern cotton & expansion of slavery
Western commercial farming
American System: tariff, transp, BUS
Irish, German immigration for jobs & land
New industrial & farm technologies
Decline of “putting out” & barter systems
Trade, cotton = 60% of U.S. exports & world bought 75% of cotton from USA
Economic self-sufficiency for USA

16. Prompt Identify a facts about each election: 1. Election of 1824 2
Prompt Identify a facts about each election: 1. Election of Election of Election of Election of Election of 1840

17. 1824: “corrupt bargain; 4 way race: JQ Adams, Clay, Jackson, Crawford; Clay named Sec of State; Adams won
1828: 1st time Democratic Party; Jackson vs Adams, Jackson won, spoils system, Calhoun VP
1832: Jackson vs Clay, Jackson won, BUS was main issue
1836: Van Buren won with Jackson’s support; Whigs ran 3 candidates
1840: 2-party system (Dems & Whigs), Van Buren vs. Harrison, Panic of 1837 was main issue, “Tippecanoe”, 82% voters

18. Prompt Identify each social change or reform: 1. Temperance 2
Prompt Identify each social change or reform: 1. Temperance 2. Seneca Falls 3. Dorthea Dix Horace Mann 5. Cult of Domesticity 6. William Lloyd Garrison

19. Temperance: attacked alcohol abuse
Seneca Falls: Women’s rights; Stanton/Mott; Declaration of Sentiments
Dix: Prison & asylum reform
Mann: Public education
Cult of Domesticity: separate sphere for women; Home & children
Garrison: American Anti-Slavery Society; The Liberator; Abolitionism

20. Prompt Name 4 characteristics of the transportation revolution

21. Types of Transportation:
Turnpikes, National Road
Canals, Erie Canal (1st major link b/w East & West; importance of NY City)
Steamboats allowed 2-way travel
Emergence of railroads, esp in North
Impact:
90% decrease in transportation costs for western farmers; increased profits
Manufactured goods from East to West; Farm goods from West to East
Facilitated the market revolution

22. Prompt Name 3 characteristics of the 2nd Great Awakening

23. Religious enthusiasm in response to declining church attendance & devotion
Evangelists used mass techniques to appeal to masses; Tent revivals
Emphasized self-improvement & inspired social reformers of the 1830s
Began in West; Burned-over district of NY; reached all regions of country
Charles G Finney & emotional preaching
New religions: Mormons, Shakers, Onedia
Growth in Baptists & Methodists

24. Prompt “Define” each event of Jackson’s presidency: 1
Prompt “Define” each event of Jackson’s presidency: 1. Petticoat Affair 2. Spoils System 3. Maysville Road 4. Specie Circular 5. Kitchen Cabinet

25. Petticoat Affair: Peggy Eaton affair led to resignation of Jackson’s cabinet
Spoils System: Jacksonian precedent of rewarding party loyalty with patronage
Maysville Road: Jackson veto of road in Kentucky; “not a national project”
Specie Circular: All western lands sales must be in “specie” (gold or silver); helped cause Panic of 1838
Kitchen Cabinet: Informal advisors who Jackson relied on after Peggy Eaton Affair

26. Prompt Name 3 events of the Van Buren presidency

27. Panic of 1837
“Van Ruin” had no response to Panic
Strengthening of Whigs from 1836 to 1840
Election of Harrison in 1840