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Part 1: Political Development and Cultural Beginnings

1. In what ways did Michigan Territory deviate from the terms laid out in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 for proceeding to statehood?

2. What role did the following figures play in early Michigan government and/or culture?

a. Gabrielle Richard

b. William Woodbridge

c. Stevens Thomson Mason

d. Lewis Cass

e. John Monteith

f. Stevens T. Mason

3. What role did the townships play in early Michigan governance?

4. What was the "Catholepistemiad"?

5. What was the basis for Michigan's early system of education?

6. What were the dominant churches in the territorial period?

Part 2: A Stormy Entrance into the Union

1. Why did Michigan not become a state soon after the Territorial Council voted to request that Congress pass an enabling act?

2. When was the first state constitution drafted, and what were its most notable features?

3. What led to the territorial dispute between Michigan and Ohio?

4. What was the so-called "Toledo War"?

5. What was the nature of the compromise that was reached between Michigan and Ohio?

6. When did Michigan become a state?

Part 3: A Cycle of Boom, Bust, and Recovery

1. As the textbook notes, "One of the major factors in the Michigan land boom in the early 1830s was easy credit" (221). What was the background behind this easy credit?

2. What was the General Banking Act of Michigan, and what were its terms?

3. What were "wildcat banks"?

4. In what ways was Michigan caught up in the "mania for internal improvements" after it became a state?

5. How did the Panic of 1837 affect Michigan?

6. What railroad lines were first constructed in Michigan?

7. What led the state to sell its railroads under construction?

8. Which "internal improvements" were more important-roads, plank roads, canals, or railroads?

Part 4: Out of the Wilderness, 1835-1860

1. What were the origins of the people who moved to Michigan after statehood?

2. From which countries did most foreign-born inhabitants of Michigan come?

3. The majority of the state's early leaders came from which states?

4. What brought German immigrants to Michigan, and where did they settle?

5. What brought the Dutch to Michigan, and where did they settle?

6. What role did translations of The Emigrant's Guide to Michigan play in attracting new settlers?

7. What attracted Finns, Norwegians, and Swedes to Michigan?

8. Where did most African Americans live in Michigan prior to the Civil War?

9. When and where did the lumber industry first take off?

10. Where is the major copper-producing area of the state, or "Copper Country"?

11. What is the "Ontonagon boulder"?

12. Iron ore was first discovered in what part of Michigan?

13. When was the first Soo Canal opened and why?

14. What was the "plank road" craze?

15. Prior to the Civil War, what were the leading sources of wealth in the Michigan economy?

Part 5: Michigan Leads the Way in Education

1. Why was education considered important in Michigan?

2. What provisions for public education were included in the 1835 Constitution?

3. How was education funded in Michigan? Were the early schools in Michigan free and compulsory in the beginning?

4. What was the "Kalamazoo Case" of 1874?

5. What is the early history of the University of Michigan?

6. When was the Michigan Agricultural College founded? Why was the 1862 Morrill Act important for it?

7. What was the Raisin Institute?

8. What was the situation for women who desired higher education prior to the Civil War?

9. What role did the following figures play in early Michigan education?

a. John Pierce

b. Isaac Crary

c. John Monteith

Part 6: Politics in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Michigan

1. What were the dominant political sympathies in pre-Civil War Michigan?

2. Why were women's rights and temperance associated causes?

3. What kinds of rights were women given in the Michigan Constitution of 1850?

4. What role did Quakers play in the underground railway?

5. What factors led to Lewis Cass's defeat as the Democratic presidential nominee in 1848?

6. How did Michigan respond to the passage of the federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

7. What led to the founding of the Republican Party in Michigan in 1854?

8. What were the reasons for calling a constitutional convention in 1850, and what were its main provisions?

9. What role did the following figures play in early Michigan culture and politics?

a. Charles Grandison Finney

b. Lucinda Hinsdale Stone

c. Sojourner Truth

d. Elizabeth Chandler

e. Laura Smith Haviland

f. Zachariah Chandler

g. James Strang

Part 7: Michigan and the Civil War

1. What was the importance of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 in provoking the Civil War?

2. How did Michigan citizens vote in the presidential election of 1860?

3. How did Michigan meet the requirement to provide the Union army with soldiers?

4. In what ways did Michigan soldiers contribute to the Civil War?

5. What was the S.S. Sultana tragedy?

6. How did the wartime economy of Michigan fare?

7. What contributed to the Detroit race riot of 1863?

8. What role did the following figures play in Michigan politics at the time of the Civil War?

a. George Armstrong Custer

b. Henry Crapo