1. Do Now (First 5 minutes):
In your notes, list three goals that President Jefferson achieved in office (see yesterday’s notes)
In your notes, answer the following True-False Statement True or False: Mr. Gehrz is okay with throwing in the classroom as long as the object is soft.
When finished with the above, finish any work that needs to be turned in from yesterday.

2. CHAPTER 2
The Young Republic

3. Section 2
The Growth of a Nation

4. Growth of American Nationalism
“THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS” – After the War of 1812, a feeling of NATIONALISM spread nationwide
JAMES MONROE becomes the 5th PRESIDENT of the United States
Federalist party lost popularity after the War of 1812
REPUBLICAN PARTY became the only political party by 1820, many FEDERALISTS joined the Republicans

5. Economic Nationalism
Monroe’s presidency focused on NATIONAL GROWTH by strengthening the FINANCIAL SYSTEM, protecting MANUFACTURERS, and improving TRANSPORTATION
JOHN C. CALHOUN (Representative – South Carolina), HENRY CLAY (Rep. – Kentucky), and DANIEL WEBSTER (Rep. – Massachusetts) pass bill in that gives National Bank the power to create CURRENCY and CONTROL STATE BANKS
TARIFF OF 1816 taxed IMPORTED GOODS from Great Britain
Private businesses and state and local governments pay to improve/build ROADS AND CANALS to improve national transportation system

6. Judicial Nationalism
MARTIN V. HUNTER’S LESSEE – Supreme Court settles matter of land inheritance for British loyalist family
MCCULLACH V. MARYLAND – Supreme Court rules National Bank “necessary and proper” and stops Maryland from taxing Baltimore branch
GIBBONS V. OGDEN – Supreme Court decides that states control state commerce, federal power controls interstate commerce

7. Nationalist Diplomacy
SPAIN give FLORIDA to the U.S. in ADAMS-ONIS TREATY of 1819
– All of SPAIN’S COLONIES in the Americas rebel and DECLARE INDEPENDENCE from Spain
Russia owns ALASKA and claims OREGON COUNTRY in 1821
MONROE DOCTRINE – Issued by Pres. Monroe that the American continents could no longer be COLONIZED by overseas powers

8. A Growing Nation: Transportation Revolution
1806 – Congress funds the NATIONAL ROAD, hundreds of miles of toll roads built
Rivers/Waterways were cheaper method of TRANSPORTING GOODS, first STEAMBOAT developed by ROBERT FULTON and ROBERT LIVINGSTON
PETER COOPER built first locomotive (TOM THUMB), TRAINS helped EXPAND TRADE and SETTLE THE WEST more than any other transportation

9. Industrialization
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION – large-scale MANUFACTURING, complex MACHINES, and organized factory WORK FORCES
COMPETITION, LOW TAXES, and INTERCHANGEABLE PARTS all contributed to the United States’ fast industrialization
1832 – SAMUEL MORSE perfects the TELEGRAPH and invents MORSE CODE

10. Immigration
– over 5 MILLION immigrants come to the United States (Germans, Irish), rural FARMERS and cheap CITY LABOR
Anti-immigrants groups formed to prevent FOREIGNERS and CATHOLICS (Germans, Irish) from holding public office
1854 – AMERICAN PARTY (Know-Nothings) formed by anti-immigrants groups

11. Rise of Labor Unions
1860 – 1.3 million FACTORY WORKERS (men, women, and children)
LOW PAY and LONG (12 HR) WORK DAYS led to creation of labor unions
Early unions had LITTLE POWER, courts viewed unions as UNLAWFUL because they LIMITED free enterprise

12. Importance of Agriculture
While the North industrialized, the South continued to rely on AGRICULTURE
AGRICULTURE was the country’s leading economic activity
Major cash crops included TOBACCO, RICE, SUGARCANE, and COTTON
ELI WHITNEY and the COTTON GIN

13. Enslaved and Free African Americans
Though Congress outlawed SLAVE TRADE in 1808, HIGH BIRTHRATES increased population of enslaved people from 1.5 million to 3.2 million between 1820 and 1850
State LAWS and SLAVE CODES prevented enslaved people from learning to read and write, own property, leave a slaveholder’s premises, or testify in a court of law against a white person
MUSIC helped African Americans endure the horrors of SLAVERY while others acted out in rebellious ways (burning, running, attacking)
200,000 free slaves living in the NORTH where slavery was OUTLAWED