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The Enduring Vision, Fifth Edition
Paul S. Boyer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Clifford E. Clark, Jr., Carleton College
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Chapter 9: The Transformation of American Society, 1815-1840



After reading Chapter 9, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following:

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

John Jacob Astor

"mountain men": Kit Carson, Jedidiah Smith, and Jim Beckwourth

Five Civilized Tribes

Indian Removal Act, 1830

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and Worchester v. Georgia

Trail of Tears

Black Hawk War

Eli Whitney, the cotton gin, and interchangeable parts

Panic of 1819

transportation revolution

Robert Fulton, the Clermont, and the Livingston-Fulton monopoly

Gibbons v. Ogden

Erie Canal

Samuel Slater

the out work system and cottage industry

Boston Associates, Waltham and Lowell mills

New York's Five Points district

Richard Allen and the African Methodist Episcopal Church

middling classes

individualism

doctrine of separate spheres

Andrew Jackson Downing


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