US History

Brinkley Chapter 10 Guiding Questions 1. What were the reasons for and the effect of the rapid increase in population between 1820 and 1840? 2. Where did this increased population settle? What population shifts took place between 1820 and 1840? 3. Why was the rise of New York City so phenomenal? 4. What major immigrant groups came to the United States during this period? What impact did they have on the character and distribution of the population in the North? 5. What impact did this immigration have on the political system? Which party was the most successful in attracting immigrant voters? 6. What gave rise to the nativist movement? What were its political goals? 7. Why were natural means of carrying commerce (lakes and rivers) unsatisfactory to most Americans?

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.

Brinkley Chapter 6 Guiding Questions 1. Who were the advocates of centralization, and what was seen as the most serious problem of the Articles of Confederation? 2. What were the characteristics of the men who met at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia? Whose presence was essential to the meeting's success? Why? 3. What were the two major points of view that divided the convention? What plans did each side propose to carry its view? 4. How were the differences between the "large state" and the "small state" plans resolved? What other issues divided the convention, and how were they resolved? 5. What was to be the role of various branches of government under the new Constitution?

Brinkley Chapter 3 Guiding Questions 1. Explain the system of indentured servitude that developed in the American colonies. 2. What impact did freed indentures have on colonial sociopolitical development? 3. What factors contributed to the rapid increase in colonial population during the last half of the seventeenth century? 4. How did the importance of reproduction in the labor-scare society of colonial America affect the status and lifecycle of women? 5. How and why did the status of women in colonial America differ from region to region? 6. Describe the steps that led to the establishment of black slavery in the English American colonies.