Chapter 11 Flashcards
List the 3 major forms of transportation and give 1 positive contribution and 1 negative aspect of each
1) Steam boat
-speed
-boiler explosions
2) Canals
-cheaper
-expensive to dig
3)Railroad
-unified the country both culturally and economically
-at first they were short and not efficient for disturbing goods
what were the main reasons women went to textile factories and why they were replaced by the 1840’s`
-seeking money and autonomy
-workers protested mill owners efforts to spend up work and lower wages
-their efforts were undermined in the 1840’s as they were replaced by immigrants
-because workers were so easily replaced wages always were low
list and explain the 3 functions banks preformed in jacksonian america
-stimulated the economy by granting loans to merchants and manufacturers
-power deciding who got the loans and what discount rates would be
-issued bank notes which effectively became the currency of the country
the whigs
1)vigorous program of internal improvements
-transcontinental RR, roads, Canal system
2)support manufactory, protective tariffs, public education
the democracts
-egalitarian agricultural society, traditional farm life, republican simplicity
-modernization threatened to create a politically powerful class of rich aristocrats
John Quincy adams, criticisms, compliments
-elitist, bookish academic, monarchist
-pious, educated, virtous
Andrew Jackson, criticism, compliement
-bastard, adulterer, sinful, violent tempered and impulsive, unsuitable to be president
-loyal, tough frontier hero who could command obedience, had a natural sense and wasn’t a “corrupt aristocracy of the east”, humble, self made
explain the nullification crisis. what was the doctrine of nullification
states had the right to abolish congressional acts in cases when congress overstepped its powers
Jackson’s response to the nullification crisis
-sent armed ships to charleston
-threatened invasion
-pushes force bill through congress
-defines S.C. stance as treason and authorizes military action to collect tariffs
how did some Americans look to reform the nation? discuss the objectives and strategies of the temperance movement
-seek new ways of perfecting not only themselves but the society in which they lived
-called on the faithful to take personal pledges of temperance, moderation not elimination, use moral persuasion, politics to undermine alcohol venders
how did some Americans look to reform the nation? discuss the motivation and strategy of the abolition movement
-seek new ways of perfecting not only themselves but the society in which they lived
-first organized against slavery using petitions and lectures
-newspaper “immediate and complete emancipation of all slaves”
how and why did slavery become an issue in the election of 1836
John c Calhoun’s efforts to discredit Van Buren and win the presidential nomination himself, 1821 Van Buren supported suffrage for free blacks in N.V.
