US History Assignment Guide and Key Points

 

Chapter 12 "America Becomes More Democratic"

 

Lesson 1 "Industries Develop Slowly"

Turn to Page 232 analyze the timeline at the bottom of the page and read the introduction to the chapter.

Scan Pages 233-234; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

Scan Pages 233-234 for pictures and diagrams, read each of the captions.

Scan for an read the short articles in the colored boxes that you find on Pages 233-234.

Read Pages 233-234 (take notes of important ideas)

Do you know the answers to the questions on page 234? (See Key Points below for help)

Do you know the vocabulary words? (See Key Points below for help)

Take the quiz on Lesson 1 "Industries Develop Slowly" (You may use the book, notes and Key Points for help on the quizzes. NOT ON TESTS!)

Review answers on the quiz and print it out. This will be very useful when you are studying for the test.

 

Lesson 1 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

Mechanic - someone skilled in working with machines.

Memorize - to remember what has been learned.

Rural - Relating to places well outside of cities.

Textile - fabric or cloth

Interchangeable parts - parts of a machine that can be used with other machines.

Mass produce - To make great amounts of product very fast.

 

Section Review Answers

  1. Growth of industry was slow because there was not a good market for manufactured goods, especially from farmers.
  2. Factories were slow to get started because factories could not make things very well, people found it easier to buy British goods, and bankers were not eager to lend money to manufacturers.
  3. Samuel Slater was able to make his textile machine by memorizing the parts of the machine in Great Britain.
  4. the textile industry changed because factories were able to ;make more goods faster and cheaper.
  5. Cyrus McCormick's reaper harvested grain.

Did you learn these Objectives?

Are you able to explain why the United States did not have an industrial economy in the early 1800s?

Can you describe several inventors and their inventions that helped change the United States into an industrial giant?

 

 

Lesson 2 "Improving Transportation and Communication"

Scan Pages 235-239; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

Scan Pages 235-239 for pictures and diagrams, read each of the captions.

Scan for an read the short articles in the colored boxes that you find on Pages 235-239.

Read Pages 235-239 (take notes of important ideas)

Do you know the answers to the questions on page 239? (See Key Points below for help)

Do you know the vocabulary words? (See Key Points below for help)

Take the quiz on Lesson 2 "Improving Transportation and Communication" (You may use the book, notes and Key Points for help on the quizzes. NOT ON TESTS!)

Review answers on the quiz and print it out. This will be very useful when you are studying for the test.

 

Lesson 2 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

Turnpike - A road that travelers pay to use.

Commerce - Having to do with buying and selling goods.

Locomotion - a vehicle that rides on rails and has an engine for pulling railroad cars.

telegraph - a device that uses coded signals to send communications over a wire.

Transatlantic - crossing the Atlantic Ocean

 

Section Review Answers

  1. Robert Fulton invented the steam-powered boat.
  2. The Erie Canal was finished in 1825.
  3. By 1840, there were 3,000 miles of railroad track in the United States.
  4. Cyrus Field stretched transatlantic telegraph cable 3,000 niles from Newfoundland to Ireland.
  5. The pony express was used to carry mail.

Did you learn these Objectives?

Are you able to describe the poor land and water transportation in the United States in the early 1800's?

Can you explain how steamboats, canals,, and railroads improved the nation's transportation?

Can you explain how the pony express and the telegraph improved the nation's communication?

 

Lesson 3 "The Population Grows"

 

Scan Pages 240-241; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

Scan Pages 240-241 for pictures and diagrams, read each of the captions.

Scan for an read the short articles in the colored boxes that you find on Pages 240-241.

Read Pages 240-241 (take notes of important ideas)

Do you know the answers to the questions on page 241? (See Key Points below for help)

Do you know the vocabulary words? (See Key Points below for help)

Take the quiz on Lesson 3 "The Population Grows" (You may use the book, notes and Key Points for help on the quizzes. NOT ON TESTS!)

Review answers on the quiz and print it out. This will be very useful when you are studying for the test.

 

Lesson 3 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

Starvation - suffering from lack of food.

Melting pot - a nation where several groups of people belonging to different races or cultures live together.

 

 

Section Review Answers

  1. In 1830 thirteen million people were living in the United States.
  2. The Irish depended on potatoes for food.
  3. The Germans left their country because of unpleasant political conditions.
  4. By 1850, four million germans had come to the United States.
  5. A melting pot is a nation of several races and cultures.

Did you learn these Objectives?

Can you examine the reasons for an increased number of immigrants to the United States after 1820?

Are you able to identify the United States as a melting pot in which many different cultures come together?

 

Lesson 4 "The Early System of Education"

Scan Pages 242-243; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

Scan Pages 242-243 for pictures and diagrams, read each of the captions.

Scan for an read the short articles and questions in the colored boxes that you find on Pages 242-243.

Read Pages 242-243 (take notes of important ideas)

Do you know the answers to the questions on page 243? (See Key Points below for help)

Do you know the vocabulary words? (See Key Points below for help)

Take the quiz on Lesson 4 "The Early System of Education" (You may use the book, notes and Key Points for help on the quizzes. NOT ON TESTS!)

Review answers on the quiz and print it out. This will be very useful when you are studying for the test.

 

Lesson 4 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

Standards - Guidelines that a person or group must follow.

Tutor - a person who has been paid to teach another person.

Reference book - A book, such as a dictionary, used to find information.

 

 

Section Review Answers

  1. Not all children could attend school because only wealthy people could afford it and working-class families wanted their children to do chores rather than go to school.
  2. the quality of education wa poor before the 1800s because schools were small and teachers were not educated well.
  3. People began to feel that an education made people better voters and schooling helped people achieve a better life.
  4. Horace Mann reorganized the Massachusetts public school system in 1837.
  5. Webster's books were important because they gave schoolchildren a standard of learning.

Did you learn these Objectives?

Are you able to describe the poor education received by most Americans before 1800.

To identify the improvements in public education accomplished by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Horace Mann, and others.

Lesson 5 "American Literature Develops"

Scan Pages 244-247; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

Scan Pages 244-247 for pictures and diagrams, read each of the captions.

Scan for an read the short articles and questions in the colored boxes that you find on Pages 244-247.

Read Pages 244-247 (take notes of important ideas)

Do you know the answers to the questions on page 247? (See Key Points below for help)

Do you know the vocabulary words? (See Key Points below for help)

Take the quiz on Lesson 5 "American Literature Develops" (You may use the book, notes and Key Points for help on the quizzes. NOT ON TESTS!)

Review answers on the quiz and print it out. This will be very useful when you are studying for the test.

 

Lesson 5 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

Bravery - the ability not to be afraid when facing danger

Classic - a book that has lasting value or meaning.

Prose - the ordinary form of spoken or written language.

Violent - severe or harmful

Abolitionist - a person who wanted slavery stopped.

 

Section Review Answers

  1. Moby Dick was written by Herman Melville
  2. Emily Dickinson wrote about love and death.
  3. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom;s Cabin.
  4. A newspaper called the Liberator was published by William Lloyd Garrison.
  5. Frederick Douglass published an antislavery newspaper called The North Star.

Did you learn these Objectives?

Can you explain why the United States developed its own literature?

Are you able to describe writings of some important nineteenth americans?

Can you describe some important antislavery works and writers?

 

 

 Preparing for Chapter 12 Test

Turn to Page 248 and read the article, "Slavery As It Is".

Turn to Page 249 and read the Chapter 12 summary.

On page 250-251 you will find the Chapter 12 review, complete the review.

Check your answers with those in the Key Points.

Take the Chapter 12 Test "America Becomes More Democratic"

Review the answers then print the results for your records.

 

Chapter 12 Review answers

  1. John Deere
  2. pone express
  3. grain
  4. Noah Webster
  5. Erie Canal
  6. telegraph
  7. the Scarlet Letter
  8. education
  9. potato
  10. steamboat
  11. Germany
  12. railroads
  13. Europe

The Comprehension: Understanding Main Ideas

  1. Governor Clinton wanted to have a better way of moving goods between the Atlantic Ocean and the West.
  2. The development of iron in America improved businesses that depended on iron; these businesses grew very quickly.
  3. Douglass was an ex-slave who knew about slavery firsthand.
  4. The pony express was fast because riders changed to fresh gorses every ten miles or so.

 

Congratulations you finished the twelfth chapter !!