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Step Four: Put It All Together

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CHAPTER 11 STUDY GUIDE

PUT IT ALL TOGETHER

Now, take a step back and try to explain the big picture. Remember to use specific examples from the chapter in your answers.

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THE MARKET REVOLUTION Why were improvements in transportation so crucial to America’s economic growth and development in the early nineteenth century? What changes in workers’ lives and status accompanied industrialization?	THE AGE OF JACKSON What does Andrew Jackson’s rise to the presidency tell us about popular politics in the 1820s? How did Andrew Jackson change the presidency? How did he see and manipulate the relationship among the president, Congress, and the courts?
THE ERA OF REFORM How did the Second Great Awakening lead to a variety of social reform movements? What impact did these various reform movements have on politics and society in the 1830s? What role did women play in the reform movements of the early nineteenth century?	LOOKING BACKWARD, LOOKING AHEAD How did the second American party system differ from the first party system? How did it differ from the partisanship of the 1790s? How do the reform movements of the 1820s and 1830s shed light on the causes of the sectional tensions that would dominate the 1840s and 1850s?