Brinkley Chapter 8 Guiding Questions 1. How did America's wartime experience underline the need for another national bank? 2. How did Congress propose to promote manufacturing in the United States? 3. How was transportation improved during this period? What serious gaps remained in the nation's transportation system? 4. What were the reasons for the so-called Great Migration? 5. What were the characteristics of life among white settlers in the Old Northwest? 6. How did life in the Old Southwest differ from that in other sections of the country? 7. Who were the "mountain men"? Why were they important in the settlement of the West? 8. Explain the perception that easterners had of the West.