1. THE GROWTH OF A YOUNG NATION

2. JEFFERSONIAN ERA Election of 1800
Jefferson (Democratic-Republican) vs. John Adams (Federalist)
Jefferson defeats Adams by 8 electoral votes
Congress passes 12th Amend.

3. JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICANISM
People should control government and a simple government best suits the needs of the people.
Cut costs and shrunk government
Era of Southern dominance that weakens Federalist influence

4. LOUISIANA PURCHASE 1803 $15 million More than doubles size of nation
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Jefferson reelected 1804

5. WAR OF 1812 British policy of impressment
Native Americans supplied with weapons from officials in British Canada
President Madison asks for declaration of war
1814 Washington DC sacked
Battle of New Orleans
Treaty of Ghent

6. CONSEQUENCES OF WAR OF 1812 End of Federalist Party
Encouraged growth of American industries
Confirmed status of United States as a free and independent nation

7. NATIONALISM James Monroe 1816…John Quincy Adams (Sec. of State)
National security and expansion of territory are priorities

8. MONROE DOCTRINE 1823 Message to Congress
“European powers should not interfere with affairs in the Western Hemisphere…at the same time, the US would not interfere with European affairs”

9. REGIONAL ECONOMIES Northeast begins to industrialize
South grows as an agricultural power
Market economy develops
Regional economies create political tensions
Efforts to unify national economy

10. THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE
1818 Missouri seeks statehood
Free state or slave state?
Henry Clay leads a compromise in Congress
Maine admitted as free state
Missouri admitted as slave state
Rest of LA Territory split into two parts with the dividing line being 36/30north latitude. South of the line slavery is legal. North of the line, except Missouri, slavery is banned

11. THE ELECTION OF ANDREW JACKSON
1828
Jacksonian Democracy
Political power for all classes
Spoils system

12. INDIAN REMOVAL ACT
1830
Federal gov. provided funds to negotiate treaties that would force Native Americans to move west.
The Trail of Tears

13. JACKSON’S BANK WAR Defended federal power in the bank crisis
Felt National Bank was an agent of the wealthy
Tried to kill the bank and succeeded
Accused of being a king
Opponents form Whig party
Panic of 1837

14. MANIFEST DESTINY 1840s “Expansion Fever” Abundance of land
Santa Fe/Oregon Trails
Mormon Migration

15. TEXAS INDEPENDENCE Texas land grants Stephen F. Austin
Texas Revolution
“Remember the Alamo”
Sam Houston

16. WAR WITH MEXICO

17. CALIFORNIA Republic of California Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
California Gold Rush
Forty-Niners

18. “We are in good spirits, and serene as heaven itself, though the opposition is still formidable… especially in regard to the atrocious war with Mexico. It is certainly not a popular war; it was begun and is carried on against the deep moral convictions of the sober portion of the people; its real object, the extension and preservation of slavery, no intelligent man honestly doubts; still, the diabolical motto, ‘Our Country, right or wrong…’”
William Lloyd Garrison letter to Sumner

19. THE NULLIFICATION CRISIS
John C. Calhoun
Tariff of 1816 increased by Congress
Since the US Constitution was based on a compact among the sovereign states, then the states must still be sovereign, and each would have the right to determine if what Congress did was constitutional.

20. MARKET REVOLUTION
People increasingly bought and sold goods rather than make them for themselves
Free enterprise/entrepreneurs
Inventions and Improvements
Samuel F.B. Morse
Robert Fulton
Changes in the workplace

21. LOWELL TEXTILE MILLS Lowell, Massachusetts Female employees
Lower wages than men
More pay than traditional jobs
Gradual deterioration of working conditions
Strike

22. REFORMING AMERICAN SOCIETY
Second Great Awakening
Transcendentalism
Women and Reform
Slavery and abolition
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass