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Reading Guide

Chapter 7

Directions: After reading pages 163 – 192explain the significance of the following terms.

1. Aaron Burr -

2. Deism –

3. Eli Whitney –

4. Hartford Convention –

5. Impressment –

6. John Marshall –

7. Judith Sargent Murray –

8. Marbury v. Madison –

9. Noah Webster –

10. Robert Fulton –

11. Second Great Awakening –

12. Tecumseh –

13. The Embargo –

14. The Prophet (Tenskwatawa)

15. Toussaint L’Ouverture –

16. William Henry Harrison –

17. Louisiana Purchase –

18. New Orleans –

19. Assimilation -

Directions: Read pages 163 – 192 and answer the following questions using many details and examples from the text.

1. What effect did Republican ideology have on education in the United States?

2. How did the American Revolution affect traditional forms of religious practice? What challenges to religious traditionalism arose during this period?

3. What caused the Second Great Awakening?

4. What was the "message" and what was the impact of the Second Great Awakening?

5. What was the industrial revolution? Where and why did it begin?

6. Explain the role that Eli Whitney played in America's industrial revolution. What impact did his inventions have on the South and what impact was felt in the North?

7. What effect did America's transportation system have on industrialization?

8. What were the characteristics of American population growth and expansion in the years between 1790 and 1800?

9. How was the relative "unimportance of the federal government" during the Jefferson administration symbolized by the character of the national capital?

10. What were the characteristics of the "spirit of democratic simplicity" that was the style set by Jefferson for his administration?

11. How did Jefferson combine his duties as president and as party leader in his efforts to govern the country?

12. What were the roots of Jefferson's conflict with the federal court system, and how did the case of Marbury v. Madison fit into the controversy?

13. Why was New Orleans "the one single spot" that made its possessor the "natural enemy" of the United States?

14. How were the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase conducted, and what were the terms agreed on?

15. What were the reasons behind Jefferson's reservations over the purchase of Louisiana, and how was he able to reason these doubts away?

16. What was the purpose of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and what did the expedition accomplish?

17. What were the circumstances that led to the duel between Hamilton and Burr?

18. What was the "Burr conspiracy," and what was its outcome?

19. How did France and Britain attempt to prevent America from trading with the other; why was one more successful than the other; and what was the American response?

20. What was Jefferson's response to the Chesapeake-Leopard affair, and why did he take this action?

21. How did conditions in the West heighten the tension between the United States and Britain?

22. What was Tecumseh's attitude toward the treaties previously negotiated between the United States and various Indian tribes? How did he plan to prevent the expansion of white settlements?

23. Why did Americans blame the British for Indian uprisings on the frontier, and what did the frontier settlers see as the best solution to the problem?

24. Why did Americans want to wrest control of Florida from the Spanish? What attempts were made to do this before 1812?

25. Who were the "War Hawks," and why were they able to exert such influence on America's drift toward war?

26. Prior to 1814, what did the New England states do to hinder the war effort?

27. What effect did the Hartford Convention have on the Federalist Party?

29. What was the background to peace negotiations at Ghent? What did both sides initially demand, and why did they finally agree on the terms they did?

30. How did the American culture in the early 19th century reflect the Republican vision of the nation?

31. Describe the transformation from an agrarian to an urban, industrial society. What stimulated this transformation?

32. How did Jefferson seem to outdo the Federalists at their own work?

33. Explain the relationships that America had with the Indians and with foreign nations at the turn of the 19th century.

34. What were the causes of the War of 1812?

35. What was the “Indian Problem”?

36. What foreign policy dilemmas arose during the Jefferson and Madison presidencies?