NATIONALISM AND

SECTIONALISM

1812-1855

INDUSTRY
AND
TRANSPORTA
TION

Roads
national road;first highway
funded by the
government
1st roads were
privately owned

CANALS
* Erie Canal linked
the Hudson with Lake
Erie
* Development of
the Steam Boat*

RAILROADS

Railroad
advantages
Faster
able to cross
any terrain
could operate
in severe
weather

INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTIO
N
Social and economic
reorganization that
took place as
machines replaced
hand tools and largescale factory
production developed
Mass Production
the production of
goods in large
quantities

TWO
EVENTS
WHICH
CHANGE
AMERICA
1.The Embargo
Act of 1807
2.War of 1812

NEW ENGLAND
INDUSTRIALIZES
Francis Cabot
Lowell, build 1st
factory town
manufacturing
center
hired mostly
women

LOWELL MASSACHUSETTS

FACTORY
WORK
CHANGES
LIFE
1.Machines
increased work
pace
2.Reduced the
amount of skill
needed to
work
3.Cheap wages

INVENTIONS
TRANSFORM
INDUSTRY

1. Interchangeable parts
1. Identical components that
could be used in place of
another
2. Telegraph
1. Samuel Morse
2. Instant communication
3. Steel Plow
1. John Deere
4. Mechanical reaper
1. Cyrus McCormick

SECTIONAL
DIFFERENCES

THE NORTH
EMBRACES
INDUSTRY
1.Greater access to
money
2.Had cheap labor
available
3.Many more rivers
to provide power
4.Growing season in
the North was
short

PLANTATION
FARMING
large land farms
which produce
cash crops
Cotton is King
depended on
slave labor
wealthy
Southerners
invest in slave
rather than
industry

Nationalism - a devotion to the interests and

culture of ones nation

AN ERA OF
NATIONALISM

AMERICAN SYSTEM
1. development of a
national transportation
network
2. Establishing a protective
tariffs
3. Resurrecting of the
national bank

SUPREME
COURT
BOOST
FEDERAL
POWER

Limiting State Power

McCulloch v.
Maryland
Maryland tried to tax
the National Bank
Fletcher v. Peck
Limit the states
power to interfere in
business contracts

EXPANDING
THE US
John Quincy Adams
Adams-Onis Treaty
Gave Florida to US
Ended Spanish claims in the
West

MONROE
DOCTRINE
1.Warned European
nations not to get
involved with Latin
America
2.America would not
interfere with European
matters
3.No new colonies in N.
America

SHAPED AMERICAN FOREIGN

POLICY FOR 100 YEARS

COMPROMI
SE OVER
Missouri
Compromise
SLAVERY
balance of power
between slave
states and free
states
1) north of the line
slavery was
banned
2) south of the
line slavery was
legal

DEMOCRACY AND THE

AGE OF JACKSON

ELECTION
OF 1824
* Jackson wins
popular vote, but
did not have the
electoral votes
* Adams wins,
with the help of
Henry Clay
* Corrupt
Bargain

JACKSON AS
PRESIDENT
Common Man
fought in the revolution at
the age of 13
Lived on the frontier
Known as Old Hickory
Actually a wealthy plantation
owner

JACKSONS SPOILS
SYSTEM
Spoils system

Kitchen cabinet

incoming officials
throw out former
appointees and
replace them with
their own friends

group of qualified
men who meet
with Jackson
secretly to advise
him

INDIAN
REMOVAL
ACT OF 1830
The federal
government
provided funds
to negotiate
treaties that
would force the
Native
Americans to
move west
*

WORCESTER
V. GEORGIA
The court
ruled that
Georgias land
seizure
unconstitution
al
* Jackson
would not
enforce the
ruling
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TRAIL OF
TEARS

* The march in
which the Cherokee
people were forcibly
removed from
Georgia to the
Indian territory, with
thousands of
Cherokee dying on
the way

CONSTITUTIONAL
DISPUTES AND CRISES

THE
NULLIFICATI
ON THEORY
the constitution
was based on a
compact among
the states
questioned the
legality of
applying some
federal laws in
sovereign states

TARIFF OF
1832
South Carolina
declares tariff
null and void,
South Carolina
threatens to
secede

Im leaving this
union

JACKSONS
REPLY

Passed Force Bill

allowed the federal
government to use
troops against South
Carolina

JACKSON
OPPOSES
1. A privileged
THE
BANK
institution
2. unfair
advantage
over state
banks
3. stockholder,
not the
citizens
earned
interest from
the deposits

JACKSONS
LEGACY
1. banks closed
2. credit system
collapsed
3. Business went
bankrupt
4. 1/3 of the
population were
unemployed

RISE OF THE
WHIG PARTY
1.Nationalist
2.backed Clays
American System
3.wanted to use
federal money to
improve
infrastructure
4.wanted a national
bank

THE WHIGS
WIN 1840
ELECTION
William Henry Harrison
man of the people
V.P. John Tyler
Former Democrat
Harrison dies of
pneumonia