Nationalism & Sectionalism

"Era of Good Feelings" James Monroe, 1816- 1824 Democratic Republican Adoption of Federalist policies

Second National Bank Created in 1816 McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819 Does the Federal Government have the power to incorporate a bank? Yes Does a state have the power to tax a branch of the Bank of the U.S.? No

Monroe Doctrine, 1823 Warning to European nations U.S. dominance of Western Hemisphere

American Life - Early 1800s Full of irreverence P.T. Barnum Tom Thumb Traveling Circus

Evangelical Protestantism Charles Finney Religion in the U.S. Second Great Awakening

“For fifty years, the inhabitants of the United States have been repeatedly and constantly told that they are the only religious , enlightened, and free people. They… have an immensely high opinion of themselves and are not far from believing that they form a species apart from the rest of the human race. - Alexis de Tocqueville

American Freedom Definition of freedom to the first settlers? Freedom and the Revolution? War of 1812 and Freedom? Contradiction of freedom and slavery

Industrialization Transportation Technology Communication Agricultural Machinery Mechanization of Labor Skilled v Unskilled Labor

Economics of 1800's Financing and Stocks Dartmouth v Woodward, 1819 New market system of Capitalism Limits of Capitalism Panics and Depressions Existence of Localism Existence of Slavery

Expansion of Slavery Eli Whitney Cotton Kingdom Prohibition of Atlantic slave trade, 1808 Domestic slave trade

Move Westward Consequence of War of 1812 Squatters Adams-Onis Treaty, 1819 Obstacles to expansion Freedom and Happiness “Manifest Destiny”

American Thought, 1800's Transcendentalists “Self-made man” Individualism “Self-made man” John Jacob Astor Individualism & Religion Salvation

Art & Culture Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Emily Dickinson Edgar Allan Poe Walt Whitman

Nationalism & Sectionalism Key terms: Era of Good Feelings, McCulloch v. Maryland, Monroe Doctrine, P.T. Barnum, Charles Finney, Cotton Gin, Adams-Onis Treaty, Transcendentalists