Question

1. Discuss the effect of Eli Whitney's cotton gin on the growth of "Cotton is King" mentality in the southern states. What effect did the cotton gin have on slavery?

2. What was the significance of Samuel Morse's telegraph? This significance would be both economic, social, and also could be a movement toward "binding the nation as one?'

3.One outcome of the 2nd war with Britain, the "War of 1812," was a rise in patriotism in the U.S.A. Discuss this outcome, including the adoption of a "National Anthem."

4.Throughout the USA east of the Mississippi River a network of roads, canals, and natural rivers created an internal ability to move goods from place to place, to markets within the USA, and to port cities...especially to New Orleans. How did this internal network influence growth and development in the USA.

5.The population began to change. Discuss the role of immigrants in the first half of the 19th Century. Which religious tradition did these people bring with them in most cases? What were attitudes of USA people "already in the country" towards the newcomers?

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