Identifications
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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