course material

1. 1. Explain how labor evolved from the “putting-out system” to
1. Explain how labor evolved from the “putting-out system” to unskilled wage labor during
the early Industrial Revolution 2. Describe industrialization’s impact on the nature of
work3. Describe the rise of industrial manufacturing in the early-mid 19th century and the
nature of factory labor4. Discuss the critical role slavery played in the early Southern
economy5. Explain incentives and motives for moving westward during the early 1800s6.
Identify key American innovators and inventors and their specific contributions to the
growth of industrialization7. Describe the development of improved methods of nineteenth-
century domestic transportation 8. Identify the ways in which roads, canals, and railroads
impacted Americans’ everyday lives in the nineteenth century9. Describe immigration to
the United States during the early-to-mid 19th century and its connection to social and
economic changes10. Explain the controversies and eventual compromise related to the
Missouri Crisis of 182011. What was Alexis de Tocqueville’s analysis of American
democracy12. Describe the contrast between common historical perceptions of Native
Americans and their actual practices and achievements13. Describe how 19th century
American culture led to the idea of Manifest Destiny • 14. Describe how Manifest Destiny
influenced Westward Expansion