The Market Revolution, Age of Jackson and The Reforms

Question 1

What started the Market Revolution?

Answer 1

The connection between Northern industries with western and southern farms which created advances

Question 2

What is the Market Revolution?

Answer 2

Advances in agriculture, industry and transportation

Question 3

What were some changes to the Transportation field?

Answer 3

National Road, Canals, Steamboats and Railroad

Question 4

What were some changes to the Industrial Technology?

Answer 4

Interchangeable parts and the factory system

Question 5

What were some changes to Agriculture and Innovation?

Answer 5

Cotton Gin, Mechanical Reaper (wheat), and Steel Plow

Question 6

How did the changes in Transportation affect Market economy?

Answer 6

got more money and united the country, more towns developed, and businesses,

Question 7

How did the Erie canal impact NYC?

Answer 7

gathered a lot of money and a lot of people used the canal for trading and sending products. Many towns were built along the canal.

Question 8

Who is Francis Cabot Lowell?

Answer 8

created the first cloth factory by memorizing the cotton mills in England.

Question 9

Who is Samuel Slater?

Answer 9

memorized textile machinery and made the first cotton spinning mill.

Question 10

What were the consequences of the Cotton Gin?

Answer 10

Took much less time and is far more convenient compared to before
Need more land for the high demand, so they pushed the Native Americans and was a high demand for slaves to maintain the plantations

Question 11

What was the second Middle Passage?

Answer 11

Slaves were brought to the South- 200-300 miles
Forced Migration
Felt shame- women were being transported during the day but raped at night
Lasted 70 years
Domestic slave trade

Question 12

What were the effects of the growth of cotton on enslaved women?

Answer 12

Interested in women due to reproduction so they had a natural growth

Question 13

How did banks benefit from slaves?

Answer 13

Slave mortgages led to profiting banks which led to banks selling bonds to European investors

Question 14

What is a democracy?

Answer 14

respectful and peaceful order in which people are content, making decisions for the benefits of themselves and with their rights are able to be the best of themselves.

Question 15

What is mudslinging

Answer 15

Attacking personal stuff and not ideas. Using bad things from a candidates past life and not even their principles.

Question 16

What was the Corrupt Bargain

Answer 16

Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and William Harris Crawford ran for presidency but none had enough electoral votes.
Adams proposes to Clay that if Clay supported Adams then Adams would become Secretary of State which is an advantageous position, in order to become president This sets the stage for dirty politicking.

Question 17

What was Andrew Jackson’s nature?

Answer 17

well-known by Americans for his role in the War of 1812 (battle of New Orleans) as a general as well as being a strong-willed, strong-tempered, and strong-tongued politician

Question 18

What was Andrew Jackson’s Assassination Attempt?

Answer 18

Andrew Jackson was leaving the funeral of the South Carolina congressman Warren Davis and a house painter named Richard Lawrence shot Andrew Jackson twice but misfired twice and Jackson ran after him and started beating him with his cane. People believed that Lawrence had a mental issue that resulted in him trying to kill Jackson, and spent the rest of his life in mental institutions.

Question 19

What were the 3 pillars of the American system?

Answer 19

new national bank
tariff on imported manufacture goods
federal financing for canals and roads

Question 20

What was the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 20

Missouri wants to become a state, but we need to balance the free and slave states thus Maine is a free state but Slavery was prohibited in the remaining territories of Louisiana

Question 21

What was the Monroe Doctrine?

Answer 21

US would oppose efforts of colonization and would stay out of European matters and nobody interferes with America’s matter

Question 22

Why was South Carolina against the Tariff of 1828?

Answer 22

it only benefitted the North and they were already angry by the Missouri compromise because they believed the national gov had too much strength

Question 23

How did Jackson respond to the nullification crisis?

Answer 23

Used the force act and collected taxes using Army and Navy

Question 24

What was the Indian Removal Act?

Answer 24

used funds to uproot 5 Native American nations and used force to remove them causing the Trail of Tears. The pleas were ignored by President Jackson.

Question 25

What was the Bank war?

Answer 25

Andrew Jackson was against the 2nd Bank of America because he thought it was corrupt and was used to benefit his opponents however Nicholas Biddle the president for the second bank opposed that idea.

Question 26

What was the spoils system?

Answer 26

political promise in which people get promised jobs rather than getting hired by skill. It gets replaced with the 1883 Pendelton Act in which people get tested by skill for a position. The 1929 Hatch Act states that people who work in the federal government cannot engage in any political activities.

Question 27

What were the Reforms?

Answer 27

A time in which there was the Temperance Movement, Women’s rights/Cult of Domesticity, Abolition, Prison/Health reforms, School Reforms and Utopian communities.

Question 28

Who made the Cotton Gin?

Answer 28

Eli Whitney