1. Ch 5

2. Industrial Revolution Industry begins to grow Transportation increases via roads, steamboats and the railroad. Crops can be brought to market much faster. Demands increase on goods. Was called the Industrial Revolution Slavery increases

3. Samual Morris invents Morse Code and the Telegraph machine. Eli Whitney – Interchangeable parts – Cotton Gin

4. Age of Jackson Missouri Compromise – Missouri enter as slave state – Maine enter as free state – No slave states north of the 36’ 30’ parallel besides Missouri

5. Election of 1825 John Quincy Adams( son of John Adams) was elected President – Andrew Jackson won popular vote. But did not get the necessary electoral votes. The Speaker of the House would ultimately decide and he picked Adams. Jackson and his supporters were outraged and ultimately started the Democrat party.

6. Jackson president 1828 Jackson runs against Adams again in 1828 and wins. Jackson was the “popular president” He enacted the “spoils system”

7. Nullification Crisis South Carolina was angered by the excessive taxes imposed on goods. Said that a state could secede from union of the U.S because the states were the one that established the U.S. in the first place. Also, states could cancel or nullify any law they deem unconstitutional. Jackson says no and sends a militia to South Carolina to stop the “uprising”. Tariffs were lowered in 1842 and S. Carolina no longer wanted to secede.

8. Indian Removal Act 1830 Jackson sign into law Indian Removal Act removing Indians from all U.S territory to what is now Oklahoma. Supreme court sided with Indians in the case of the Cherokee Nation v Georgia. Saying that Jackson had no right to remove Indians. Jackson didn’t listen. Court upheld the ruling in Worcester v Georgia in 1832 and again Jackson ignored ruling. 4000 Indians( men,women and children) died

9. Jackson and the National Bank Jackson despised the Bank and the power its stock holders had in his view. Also, Jackson thought the bank unconstitutional so he decided he was not going to honor the ruling of McCulloch v Maryland-Even though the bank had stabilized the economy. The Charter was set to expire in 1836. But, when Jackson was re-elected in 1832 he set out to destroy the bank by pulling all federal money out. Causing the bank to fail.

10. Social Movements Educational reform Temperance Prison reform Women’s rights movement Abolitionist Movement – William Lloyd Garrison – Frederick Douglas

11. America will begin to move west Texas wants to be part of U.S. Becomes a state in 1845 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848 Mexico gives California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico and Texas