1. Antebellum America
USH7: Students will explain the process of economic growth, its regional and national impact in the first half of the 19th century, and the different responses to it.

2. Industrial Revolution
began in England
transformation from agrarian economy to industrial
hand-made goods replaced with machines

3. Industrialization 1. transportation expanded
2. power source (steam and hydro)
3. improvements in refining process
4. protective tariffs passed

4. Eli Whitney
Created:
Cotton Gin - makes cotton more profitable - South grows KING COTTON
interchangeable parts - identical parts so broken parts could be replaced

5. Westward Movement Manifest Destiny - God-given right to expand west
own all land between Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
coined by John O’Sullivan

6. 2nd Great Awakening Christians trying to stop social ills
temperance - temper drinking to stop domestic abuse
abolitionism - abolition of slavery
public school - Horace Mann, an educated population needed for democracy

7. Women’s Rights Women could not vote or own land
Seneca Falls Convention - women speak about Suffrage
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and the Grimke Sisters
Declaration of Sentiments
This was an equal rights movement

8. ‘Era of Good Feelings” 1. Nationalism - extreme pride in our nation
2. Tariff - passed to protect US industry from British products
3. Supreme Court strengthened the federal government’s power
4. Infrastructure improved for quicker trade with the West and East

9. Corrupt Bargain mudslinging in the Presidential Election of 1824
corrupt bargain: John Quincy Adams wins president because of collusion between Adams and Clay
Jackson furious

10. Jacksonian Democracy 1. Stronger President over Congress
2. “Common Man”
3. “Spoils System”
4. Greater US expansion - Manifest Destiny

11. The emerging idea in the mid−1800's that the United States should control the land between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean was known as
A. American Destiny
B. American System
C. Manifest Destiny
D. Mutual Obligation

12. The Declaration of Sentiments, adopted during the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, is most closely associated with the rights of
A. immigrants
B. women
C. enslaved persons
D. Native Americans