AP US History Unit 5 Content Outline

US manufacturing

Embargo & War of 1812 lead to more ____________

Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin

Demand for cotton spread, increase in slavery

Eli Whitney’s invention of interchangeable parts

____________ leads to assembly line production and factories to develop across New England

Transportation

___________ changes in America change the economy due to communication and shipping being faster, making things cheaper and more largely available

National Road

________ built from Maryland to Ohio (Route 70/68)

Erie Canal

________ completed in 1825 in NY and leads to hundreds of canals

Samuel Morse’s

_________ telegraph allows long-distance communication

Robert Fulton

_________ perfects the Steamboat

Irish

_________ fleeing economic hardship and the Potato Famine arrive in eastern port cities, they face anti-Catholic discrimination

Germans

________ arrive and move west to farmlands

Know Nothings

__________ organized to fight politically against immigrants (made up of Nativists)

The Corrupt Bargain

Henry Clay (#3) gave his votes to John Quincy Adams (#2), making Adams President, who named Clay Secretary of State

Election of 1824

Andrew Jackson, war hero, representing “common man”, John Quincy Adams from New England, William Crawford from the south, and Henry Clay from the west (all Democratic-Republicans)

Democrats

After the Corrupt Bargain Jackson leaves the party, organizes the __________ to challenge Adams

Jackson elected in 1828

______________ – “Jacksonian Democracy”

spoils system

Jackson dismissed govt. officials and replaced with supporters = “__________”

Indian Removal Act

_________ to get lands for westerners, leads to Trail of Tears

Panic of 1837

Jackson pulled funds out of 2nd Bank of US so it failed (Leads to shortage of money, _______________)

Tariff of 1828

__________ raises Nullification issue again in the Carolinas and South Carolina eventually nullifies it when renewed in 1832

Tariff of Abominations

The _________ (Tariff of 1828) is settled by Henry Clay in the Compromise Tariff of 1833

Specie Circular

Made by Jackson requiring that payment for the purchase of public lands be made exclusively in gold or silver (causes a shortage of money, Panic of 1837)

Martin Van Buren

“King Andrew” picks fellow Democrat _______ to run in 1836, wins but country crashes into economic crisis (Panic of 1837)

William Henry Harrison

first Whig President, __________ , in 1841

Second Great Awakening

________________ tries to “save humanity from itself”

Social Reform Movements

Temperance = end use of alcohol, Prison Reform, Public Education, Women's rights, abolition, mental hospitals

Declaration of Sentiments

Seneca Falls Convention = ___________ (women sufferage and equal rights)

Religious Utopias

Mormons – Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Utah, Oneida, Shakers

American Literature & Art Develops

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Romanticism, Hudson River School

Transcendentalism

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman (individualism)