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Essential Questions: Chapter 7 Nationalism and Sectionalism p226

1. What advances in technology improved transportation in the early 1800’s? p228-9

2. How did the Industrial Revolution reach the US (read about Samuel Slater)? P231
3. How did the use of interchangeable parts improve efficiency in factories? P231-2
4. How did Samuel Morse quicken communication? P232
5. Why did Congress impose the Tariff of 1816? P233-3
6. Why did factories emerge in the Northeast and not in the South? P235
7. Why did immigrants from Ireland and Germany come to the US in the 1840’s?
p235
8. Why did the cotton gin boost cotton production? P236
9. Why did the cotton boom spread slavery? P236
10. Why did southern whites vigorously defend slavery? P238
11. Describe the life of a slave on a southern plantation. P240
12. Why did Henry Clay advocate the American System? p242-243
13. Why did Clay favor the reestablishment of the Second Bank of the US? P243
14. What Federalist principles did Justice John Marshall apply in the case of
McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden? P243
15. Why did John Q. Adams promote a policy of nationalism? P244
16. How did the US persuade Spain to sell Florida to the US? P244
17. What did the Monroe Doctrine warn Europe no to do? P246
18. Why did Missouri’s admission to the Union as a slave state disrupt the spirit of
nationalism? P246
19. Why did Henry Clay craft the Missouri Compromise? What did it say? P246
20. Why did Jackson accuse Henry Clay and John Q. Adams of a “corrupt bargain” in
the Election of 1824? P249-50
21. Who could vote and not vote during the 1810 and 1820’s? p250
22. Why did Andrew Jackson become the new symbol of American Democracy?
P251
23. Why did Jackson defend his use of the “Spoils System”? Why did Jackson’s
critics denounce it? P251-2
24. Why did many southern whites and President Jackson favor the passing of the
Indian Removal Act? P252-4
25. What did the Supreme Court rule in Worcester v. Georgia? How did Jackson react
to the ruling? P253
26. Why was the removal of the Cherokee Indians from their lands called the “Trail
of Tears”? p254
27. Why did southerners call the Tariff of 1828 the Tariff of Abominations? P255
28. Why did John C. Calhoun begin to champion the concept of nullification? P256
29. What did South Carolina threaten to do if the federal government used force to
enforce the protective tariff? P256
30. Why did Congressmen Daniel Webster push for the passage of a Force Bill? P256
31. Why did Jackson dislike the Bank of the US? P257
32. Why did Henry Clay and Daniel Webster form the Whig Party? P257

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33. How did Jackson complete his attack against the Bank of the US? P258
34. How did Jackson’s decision destroy the bank affect the economy and Martin Van
Buren’s Presidency? P258-9
35. Who won the election of 1840? P259