1. Nationalism vs Sectionalism
Balance
Nationalism vs Sectionalism

2. What was the basis of the Northern economy?
Manufacturing

3. The southern economy was based up on agriculture.

4. Main elements of the agricultural system in the South
Dependency on one crop
Slave labor
Plantations

5. Clay’s plan for economic development
The ‘American System’
Clay’s plan for economic development
Goal: To unify a nation with diverse regional interests and create a strong, stable economy.
Tariff of 1816
Second Bank of the US
Internal improvements

6. Purposes of each Tariff
Aid the growth of American industry by protecting American made products
Bank
Aid the exchange of goods across regions by establishing a national currency
Improvements
Assist trade by improving transportation
National Road & Erie Canal

7. Regional Economies The North The West The South
Manufacturing & industry
- Industrial revolution resulted from the growth of the factory system
Agricultural with crops and livestock
Agriculture (single crop) with minimal manufacturing
Livestock and crops for sale
- Leads to market economy
Homesteaders
Promoted by cotton gin (Eli Whitney)
Market economy- an economy in which mfg and ag support the growth of each other
Frontier lifestyle. Dependent on what they could produce and lmt market economy
Cotton gin led to est. of large plantations
No dependency on slaves
Some slaves
Dependent on slave labor
Supported tariff
Opposed tariff
* All supported strengthening the national bank

8. Faith in the federal government
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
State could not tax a federal bank. US would no longer be “supreme”
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
Federal government controls interstate commerce

9. Hands-off our stuff Rush-Bagot Agreement (1817)
Limited naval forces for U.S. and Britain in American water
Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)
Spain gave Florida to the U.S. and part of the Oregon Territory

10. Sectionalism

11. Sectionalism

12. MISSOURI Missouri statehood controversy (1819)
Tallmadge Amendment (1819) – gradual abolition (passed HR, failed in Senate)
Missouri Compromise (1820) (Maine-Missouri Bill)
Divine, America: Past and Present 7e

13. MISSOURI COMPROMISE REACTIONS Effect: Continued Existence of Slavery:
“like a fire-bell in the night the [death] knell of the Union” - Thomas Jefferson
“the title page to a great tragic volume” – J. Adams
Effect: Continued Existence of Slavery:
a) Legal Status
b) Political Power
Geographic/Economic Necessity

14. NATIONALISM IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS
The Monroe Doctrine (1823)
The US to declare the Americas off-limits to Europe.
A continuation of the neutrality and isolationist policies established by Washington.
US will protect the Americas---new countries which formed in Central and South America
No new European Colonization in the Americas
US will recognize existing European Colonies
US will not meddle in European affairs
Pojer
Monroe Doctrine