HW due 3/10

Please read pages 216-222, and answer the following questions:

1. How did technological developments transform the economy, create international markets, and affect the environment in the nation?
2. How did the United States attempt to account for regional differences while also striving to create an American identity?
3. Who were the leading exponents of the "National" over the "Local" or "sectional" point of view that rose after the war? What factors contributed to the growth and development of this attitude?
4. What was the "internal improvements bill?" How did it fit the nationalists' program, and what happened to it?
5. What were the general characteristics of the westward movement after the War of 1812, and what geographical factors affected the decisions of where to settle?
6. How did the advance of the southern frontier differ from the advance of settlement of the North?
7. Describe the trade that developed between the western regions of North America and the United States early in the nineteenth century.