APUSH Reading AssignmentsWith Questions

Chapter 3: The Growth of A Young Nation

Unit Objective: I can analyze the Jefferson Era, the Age of Jackson, Manifest Destiny, the Market Revolution, and various reform movements during the first half of the 19th century.

Section 1: The Jeffersonian Era(August 26th)

Key Terms: Democratic-Republicans, Jeffersonian Republicanism, Marbury v. Madison, John Marshall, Judicial Review, Louisiana Purchase, Impressment, James Monroe, Monroe Doctrine

  • How did Thomas Jefferson simplify the government?
  • What is the principle of Judicial Review?
  • What was the significance of the Louisiana Purchase?
  • What factors led to the War of 1812?
  • What were the major consequences of the War of 1812?
  • What did the Adams-Onis Treaty accomplish?
  • What did the Monroe Doctrine declare?

Section 2: The Age of Jackson(August 27th)

Key Terms: Henry Clay, American System, John C. Calhoun, Missouri Compromise, Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, Jacksonian Democracy, Trail of Tears, John Tyler

  • How did the onset of the industrial Revolution change American society in the North?
  • Why did the South remain primarily agricultural?
  • How did Jackson help to expand democracy and change politics?
  • How did Jackson deal with Native Americans?
  • What were the causes and consequences of the Nullification Crisis?
  • What did Jackson seek to bring down the National Bank?
  • What issues did Martin Van Buren face as President?
  • What prompted the Panic of 1837?
  • What factors helped William Henry Harrison win the Presidency?

Section 3: Manifest Destiny (August 28th)

Key Terms: Manifest Destiny, Santa Fe Trail, Oregon Trail, Stephen F. Austin, Texas Revolution, The Alamo, Sam Houston, James K. Polk, Republic of California, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidaigo

  • What is the concept of Manifest Destiny?
  • What role did the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails play in Western settlement?
  • Who were the Mormons and why did they migrate westward?
  • How did Mexicans encourage American settlement in Texas?
  • What were the causes of the Texas Revolution?
  • What was the significance of the battle at the Alamo?
  • What events precipitated the war with Mexico?
  • What was the result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
  • Who were the Forty-Niners?
  • What was the impact of the gold rush on California?

Section 4: The Market Revolution (August 29th)

Key Terms: Market Revolution, free enterprise, entrepreneurs, Samuel F.B. Morse, Lowell textile mills, strike, immigration, National Trades Union, Commonwealth v. Hunt

  • What was the market revolution?
  • What inventions and improvements emerged in the mid-1800s?
  • How did the market revolution transform the nation?
  • How did the new market economy affect the way people worked?
  • What were working conditions like in the Lowell textile mills?
  • What were the reasons that the Lowell workers went on strike?
  • Why did many immigrants face discrimination in the United States?
  • What gains and setbacks did unions experience?

Section 5: Reforming American Society (August 30th)

Key Terms: abolition, Unitarians, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Transcendentalism, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Nat Turner, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca Falls Convention, Sojourner Truth

  • What contributions did William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass make to the abolition movement?
  • What was life like for an enslaved person?
  • Why were slave owners opposed to abolition?
  • In what reform movements did women participate?
  • How did women improve their educational opportunities?
  • What factors led to the emergence of the women’s rights movement?