1. A New National Identity
Chapter 9
A New National Identity

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

3. 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

5. 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

6. 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?

7. 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

11. Cumberland Road First road built by the federal government

12. Why would this road be significant?

13. 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?

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

15. 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.

17. Erie Canal
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18. Literature James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohican’s

19. 1827 John Audubon begins publishing The Birds of America which is highly admired in England
Carolina Parakeet which is now extinct

20. Audubon’s Birds

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

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

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

24. 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

25. 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