By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Describe the socio-political environment in the colonies in the early 1770s
Explain the purpose of the Tea Act of 1773 and discuss colonial reactions to it
Identify and describe the Coercive Acts
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Explain the purpose of the 1765 Stamp Act
Describe the colonial responses to the Stamp Act
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Describe the purpose of the 1767 Townshend Acts
Explain why many colonists protested the 1767 Townshend Acts and the consequences of their actions
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Identify the shared perceptions and ideals of each social class
Assess different social classes’ views of slavery
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Explain the process of selling western land
Discuss the causes of the Panic of 1819
Identify key American innovators and inventors
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Explain the role of the putting-out system in the rise of industrialization
Understand industrialization’s impact on the nature of production and work
Describe the effect of industrialization on consumption
Identify the goals of workers’ organizations like the Working Men’s Party
Early Industrialization in the Northeast
A Vibrant Capitalist Republic
On the Move: The Transportation Revolution
A New Social Order: Class Divisions
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Describe the development of improved methods of nineteenth-century domestic transportation
Identify the ways in which roads, canals, and railroads impacted Americans’ lives in the nineteenth century
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Describe the characteristics of the new consumer culture that emerged at the end of the nineteenth century
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Explain the qualities of industrial working-class life in the late nineteenth century
Analyze both workers’ desire for labor unions and the reasons for unions’ inability to achieve their goals
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Explain how the inventions of the late nineteenth century contributed directly to industrial growth in America
Identify the contributions of Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller, and J. P. Morgan to the new industrial order emerging in the late nineteenth century
Describe the visions, philosophies, and business methods of the leaders of the new industrial order
Inventors of the Age
From Invention to Industrial Growth
Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor
A New American Consumer Culture
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Explain how the ideas and products of late nineteenth-century inventors contributed to the rise of big business
Explain how the inventions of the late nineteenth century changed everyday American life
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Explain and illustrate the new style of American politics in the 1820s
Describe the policies of John Quincy Adams’s presidency and explain the political divisions that resulted
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Explain the legal wrangling that surrounded the Indian Removal Act
Describe how depictions of Indians in popular culture helped lead to Indian removal
A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson
The Rise of American Democracy
The Nullification Crisis and the Bank War
Indian Removal
The Tyranny and Triumph of the Majority
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Explain the factors that contributed to the Nullification Crisis
Discuss the origins and creation of the Whig Party