A New National Identity Chapter 9 A New National Identity

Review After the War of 1812 United States was stronger More confident We began to turn to diplomacy to settle international disputes

Settling disputes with Britain Rush-Bagot Agreement: Limited naval power on the Great Lakes for both the U.S. and British Canada Convention of 1818: Set the border between the U.S. and Canada at 49◦ as far west as the Rocky Mountains. Both countries would occupy the Pacific Northwest together (fur trade and natural resources) Both countries would get fishing rights off of Newfoundland

U.S. gains Florida Adams-Onis treaty Settled all border disputes between Spain and the United States Spain gave East Florida to the United States Purchase price $5,000,000 U.S. gave up claims to what is now Texas

Compromise Compromise: an agreement in which each side gives up some demands What are some school related scenarios that could be resolved through compromise? How do we see compromise used in the world today?

Monroe Doctrine http://youtu.be/miQFk1FMhfQ U.S. supported Latin American countries struggling for independence U.S. was worried about interference by European counties with newly independent countries, such as Mexico U.S. did not want to be involved with more wars U.S. and Britain wanted to preserve trading relationships with Latin American countries The doctrine is still important to U.S. foreign policy

Cumberland Road First road built by the federal government

Why would this road be significant?

Good Times The nation is thriving It is a time of peace Many states were entering the union BUT – there was a growing discontent in the North about slavery To be or not to be – that is the question. Should Missouri be a slave state or not? There are 11 free states and 11 slave states What are the consequences if it goes one way or the other?

Missouri Compromise Missouri applied to enter the union as a slave state which would change the balance between free and slave states Henry Clay

Missouri Compromise Missouri would enter the union as a slave state Maine would join the Union as a free state, keeping this number of slave states and free states equal. Slavery would be prohibited in any new territories or states formed north of 36* 30’ latitude – Missouri’s southern border.

Erie Canal http://youtu.be/Re__LAcX5pY Page 306-307

Literature James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohican’s http://youtu.be/aMZtQhhS14w

1827 John Audubon begins publishing The Birds of America which is highly admired in England Carolina Parakeet which is now extinct

Audubon’s Birds

Hudson River School Thomas Cole: The Oxbow 1836 Painters of the Hudson River School, Prove American landscapes are worthy of art

George Catlin travels widely to paint images of Native American ways of life before they are lost.

American Arts 1828 Noah Webster published the first dictionary of American not British English.

Music, and Education Music celebrated American events such as the Erie Canal and the Battle of New Orleans American’s embraced educational progress Democracy could only succeed in a country of educated and enlightened people Who should pay for it? Massachusetts was the first state to create public education

Architecture Jefferson had called for American’s to model their architecture after Greece and Rome because they contained some of the same democratic and republican ideals as the new nation. U.S. Supreme Court