Pre-Civil+War+Review

=Key Terms & People=
 * = **Era of Good Feelings** ||= **nationalism** ||= **Cumberland Road** ||= **Erie Canal** ||= **Richard Arkwright** ||
 * = **Samuel Slater** ||= **Eli Whitney** ||= **Industrial Revolution** ||= **textiles** ||= **interchangeable parts** ||
 * = **mass production** ||= **cotton gin** ||= **Missouri Compromise (1820)** ||= **sectionalism** ||= **Tariff of Abominations** ||
 * = **state's rights doctrine** ||= **nullification crisis** ||= **popular sovereignty** ||= **secede** ||= Summary Topics ||

=Main Ideas=

• How did improvements in the nation's transportation system strengthen America's economy? • How did new technological innovations transform the economies of the North and South? • What were the major elements of disagreement in the debate over the admission of Missouri into the Union? • How was this "compromise" not a long-term solution to the problem of slavery in the Western territories? What other problems did it create for the future? • Why did northerners favor tariffs on imports and southerners oppose them? • What led to the nullification crisis? • How did southerners use the states' rights doctrine to support the idea of nullification?

=Essays=
 * 1) Which event was the biggest contributing factor to increased tensions between the North and the South?
 * 2) How did technological innovations contribute to the growth and spread of slavery?
 * 3) How did sectionalism play a role in the election of 1824?
 * 4) Each president uses the spoils system to select people to his cabinet and other important positions for his administration. Is this a good system or not? Justify your response.
 * 5) State two reasons why the electoral college was created. Was this good for the country?
 * 6) The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was an extremely divisive piece of legislation that Andrew Jackson supported. State his reasons for supporting it and if he was justified in doing so.

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