1. Antebellum America
APUSH Unit 5

2. Nationalism? Ongoing Impact of the American Revolution
3.2-IIIC; 4.1-IIB; 4.3-IIA; 4.3-IIIA
Nationalism?
Ongoing Impact of the American Revolution
French Revolution, 1789
Haitian Revolution,
Latin American Revolutions, 1820s
Regional Identities  American Sectionalism
North … South … West
Hartford Convention, 1814
Expansion of Slavery

3. A National Republican Culture
Revolutionary Ideals
individual talent > hereditary privilege
Ongoing global revolution
France … Haiti … Latin America
“republican motherhood”
Enlightenment ideas
women in the Revolution
women’s appeals for expanded roles in society
Awareness of inequalities
greater political democracy
calls for abolition of slavery

4. A National Republican Culture?
3.2-IIIC; 4.1-IIB; 4.3-IIA; 4.3-IIIA
A National Republican Culture?
Slavery
In the Declaration?
In the Constitution?
End of Atlantic Slave Trade, 1808
Expansion into the Southwest
Emancipation Plans
Northern Emancipation
Gradual Emancipation & Manumission
American Colonization Society, 1817
Acquisition of Western Lands
Missouri Compromise, 1820

5. Market Revolution Social Results of Industrialization Entrepreneurship
Division of labor
Social stratification
Middle class
Working class
Changes in family roles
Entrepreneurship
Regional Specialization
Northeast – South – West
Political implications?

6. Technology & Industrial Revolution
Cotton and the South
Samuel Slater & the Factory System (1791)
Eli Whitney & the cotton gin (1793)
Industrial Inventions
Eli Whitney & interchangeable parts
Elias Howe & Isaac Singer
Samuel F.B. Morse
Workers & “wage slaves”
Textile mill girls (Lowell, MA)
Unions
Low-skill male workers (immigrants)
Slaves ginning cotton
(Library of Congress)

7. Transportation Revolution
Roads
Lancaster Turnpike (1790s)
Cumberland (National) Road
Steamboats
Fulton’s Clermont (1807)
Canals
DeWitt Clinton & The Erie Canal (1825)
Railroads (1840s)
federal land grants

8. Immigration and Urbanization
Population Growth
Urban life
Immigration
Irish
Potato famine (mid-1840s)
German
Xenophobia
Nativism
American (“Know-Nothing”) Party (est. 1849)

9. The End of Homespun A – Patents
F – Technology: Whitney’s interchangeable parts; Slater’s cotton mill; Evans’ steam engine
B – State Gov’t Investment, Erie Canal, schools
G – Population & Immigration incr.
C – NE Farm  Factory (jobs & school)
H – Fed’l Courts: federal supremacy & honoring of contracts
D – Clay’s American System; Tariff of 1816
I – Embargo of 1807; War of  Fed’l Gov’t investment
E – Canals (E-W)
J – Bank of the U.S.

10. American Optimism & Reform Impulses
Alexis de Tocqueville: 5 Values
Liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism & laissez-faire
America as “City Upon a Hill”
Romanticism
Art & Literature
Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson ( )
“The American Scholar” (1837)
Henry David Thoreau ( )
“On Civil Disobedience”
Dark Side of Reform

11. Reform in Education Horace Mann (MA) Moral Education
free common schools
normal school system
Moral Education
McGuffey Readers

12. Reform in Religion Second Great Awakening Denominational Diversity
“Burned-over” district in New York
Denominational Diversity
Millennialism
William Miller & Millerites
“The Great Disappointment”
Methodists & Baptists
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons)
Joseph Smith (1830)
Brigham Young & New Zion ( )

13. Humanitarian Reform Public Asylums Temperance Dorothea Dix
Barroom Dancing by John Lewis Krimmel, 1820
(Library of Congress)
Temperance pledge
(Library of Congress)
Public Asylums
Dorothea Dix
Mental Hospitals
Penitentiaries
Temperance
American Temperance Society (est. 1826)

14. Humanitarian Reform Other Reforms Utopian Movements
American Peace Society
Sylvester Graham & Amelia Bloomer
Utopian Movements
New Harmony, IN (1825)
Robert Owen
Brook Farm, MA (1841)
George Ripley
Oneida, NY (1848)
John Humphrey Noyes

15. The Age of Jackson Tariffs Avoiding the Slave Issue
Tariffs of 1828 & 1832
Nullification & John C. Calhoun
Force Bill (1833)
Compromise Tariff of 1833
H. Clay
Avoiding the Slave Issue
Antislavery literature ban
Texas Statehood
Congressional “gag” rule

16. The Arts Architecture Painting Gilbert Stuart John Trumbull
Hudson River School
George Caleb Bingham
Thomas Cole & Frederick Church
George Caleb Bingham, Raftsmen Playing Cards (1847)

17. Thomas Cole’s American Lake Scene

18. Thomas Cole’s Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge

19. Thomas Cole’s Landscape

20. Samuel Coleman’s Storm King on the Hudson