6 A Changing Republic Free Online FlashCards

How did new transportation reshape the early republic’s economy?

Steamboats, canals, and railroads connected distant regions, helping create a more integrated national economy.

What did the Erie Canal connect, and what city did it help boost?

Opened in 1825, it connected the Great Lakes to the Hudson River and helped make New York City a major commercial center.

How did regions specialize as the national economy grew?

Western farms supplied food and raw materials, Northeastern factories made goods, and the South expanded cotton cultivation.

How did Southern cotton connect plantations to wider markets?

Cotton grown on plantations through enslaved labor supplied textile mills and domestic and international trade.

How did voting access expand for many white men in the early 1800s?

Many states removed property requirements, allowing more white men to vote.

Who remained excluded from voting as access expanded for white men?

Women and enslaved people were barred from voting, and many free Black men were also excluded; rules for Black voters varied by state.

What contradiction marked Jacksonian politics toward Indigenous nations?

His administration’s policies toward Indigenous nations showed that expanded political participation for white men could coexist with federal coercion against others.

What did the Louisiana Purchase add to the United States?

The 1803 purchase added a vast area west of the Mississippi River to U.S. control.

Why was western expansion not simply settlement of empty land?

The land was already home to Indigenous nations and Mexican communities; U.S. expansion dispossessed people and fueled disputes over slavery’s expansion.

What political claims did Indigenous nations maintain?

They had their own governments, communities, and claims to their homelands, and defended their political authority and sovereignty.

What did the Indian Removal Act of 1830 authorize?

The 1830 law authorized the federal government to negotiate exchanges of Indigenous lands east of the Mississippi for lands farther west.

What did Worcester v. Georgia rule in 1832?

The Supreme Court ruled that Georgia could not impose its laws within Cherokee territory, but the ruling was not enforced.