HW for 2/3

Please read pages 181-193, and take reading notes. If you prefer, here are the questions,

1. Why was education "central to the Republican vision of America?"
2. What effect did Republican ideology have on education in the United States?
3. Explain the "cultural independence" that Jeffersonian Americans sought. What means of expression did this "independence" find?
4. What were the obstacles faced by Americans who aspired to create a more elevated national literary life? What efforts were made to overcome these obstacles?
5. What sort of works by American authors were most influential? Why?
6. How did the American Revolution affect traditional forms of religious practice? What challenges to religious traditionalism arose during this period?
7. What caused the Second Great Awakening?
8. Why were the Methodists, the Baptists, and the Presbyterians so successful on the frontier?
9. What was the "message" and the impact of the Second Great Awakening? What impact did it have on women? on African Americans? on Native Americans?
10. Explain the reasons for the initial American ambivalence toward British industrialism. What technological advances helped change this attitude?
11. What role did Eli Whitney play in America's Industrial Revolution? What impact did his inventions have on the South? on the North?
12. What effect did America's transportation system have on industrialization?
13. What were the characteristics of American population growth and expansion in the years between 1790 and 1800?