Antebellum America USH7: Students will explain the process of economic growth, its regional and national impact in the first half of the 19th century, and the different responses to it.
Industrial Revolution began in England transformation from agrarian economy to industrial hand-made goods replaced with machines
Industrialization 1. transportation expanded 2. power source (steam and hydro) 3. improvements in refining process 4. protective tariffs passed
Eli Whitney Created: Cotton Gin - makes cotton more profitable - South grows KING COTTON interchangeable parts - identical parts so broken parts could be replaced
Westward Movement Manifest Destiny - God-given right to expand west own all land between Atlantic and Pacific Ocean coined by John O’Sullivan
2nd Great Awakening Christians trying to stop social ills temperance - temper drinking to stop domestic abuse abolitionism - abolition of slavery public school - Horace Mann, an educated population needed for democracy
Women’s Rights Women could not vote or own land Seneca Falls Convention - women speak about Suffrage Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and the Grimke Sisters Declaration of Sentiments This was an equal rights movement
‘Era of Good Feelings” 1. Nationalism - extreme pride in our nation 2. Tariff - passed to protect US industry from British products 3. Supreme Court strengthened the federal government’s power 4. Infrastructure improved for quicker trade with the West and East
Corrupt Bargain mudslinging in the Presidential Election of 1824 corrupt bargain: John Quincy Adams wins president because of collusion between Adams and Clay Jackson furious
Jacksonian Democracy 1. Stronger President over Congress 2. “Common Man” 3. “Spoils System” 4. Greater US expansion - Manifest Destiny
The emerging idea in the mid−1800's that the United States should control the land between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean was known as A. American Destiny B. American System C. Manifest Destiny D. Mutual Obligation
The Declaration of Sentiments, adopted during the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, is most closely associated with the rights of A. immigrants B. women C. enslaved persons D. Native Americans