1. Unit Seven: Growth & Division

2. Major Themes American Nationalism Early Industry Land of Cotton
Sectionalism

3. American Nationalism
Analyze how John Marshall strengthened the judicial branch.
Evaluate how nationalism affected the nation’s foreign policy after the War of 1812.

4. “Era of Good Feelings” sense of national pride after the War of 1812
describes the Monroe presidency
only one national political party

5. Economic Nationalism American System Bill
national bank
protecting American manufacturers
infrastructure
Second Bank of the United States
national currency
control state banks
Protective Tariff of 1816
internal improvement plan
vetoed by Madison
most funding by private and local government

6. Judicial Nationalism
John Marshall – rulings that increased the dominance of the federal over state governments
Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee
Virginia state law stated “no enemy” can inherit land
Ruling established the Supreme Court as the nation’s court of final appeal
McCulloch v. Maryland
Maryland’s attempt to tax the National Bank
court ruled National Bank is constitutional
court ruled that federal government “supreme in its own sphere”
Gibbons v. Ogden
case concerning a monopoly of steam boat traffic
declared monopoly is unconstitutional
definition of interstate commerce

7. Diplomacy expands borders & assert itself on world stage Florida
source of problem
Seminole
Kinache
Adams-Onis Treaty
Monroe Doctrine
Quadruple Alliance
warning and assurance

8. Questions How did the War of 1812 affect Americans and their leaders?
Why did American leaders want to create the Second Bank of the United, impose a protective tariff, and improve the nation’s transportation system?
How did the Supreme Court decisions in cases between 1816 and 1824 establish the power of the federal government over state governments?
What were the effects of the Adams-Onis treaty and the Monroe Doctrine?

9. Early Industry
Examine the changes that took place in transportation in the early 1800s.
Discuss how the Industrial Revolution changed methods of production.
Describe how industrialization affected the development of cities.
Explain the creation and rise of the factory workers and the role of industrialization on the South.

10. Transportation Revolution
Erie Canal
National Road
Roles of private business, state, and local funding
Advantages of water transportation
Robert Fulton
Clermont (1807)
The “Iron Horse”
Peter Cooper
Tom Thumb
Advantages and Disadvantages

11. Industrial Production
Elements
Hand tools to complex machines
Skilled artisans to unskilled workers
Factories replacing home based business
Distribution
Factors in the US
free enterprise
private property
limited liability
Northeast
power source
entrepreneurs and merchants
Samuel Slater
Francis Lowell
Eli Whitney
Samuel F. Morse

12. Organized Labor new kind of worker labor unions Commonwealth v. Hunt
higher wages
ten hour workday
Commonwealth v. Hunt
Role of agriculture
North
South

13. Questions
Why were railroads the most influential method of transportation in America in the 1800’s?
What was the Industrial Revolution?
Why did many city populations double or triple in the US during the early to mid 1800s?
Why did early labor unions have little success?
Why was farming the main economic activity in the US during most of the 1800s?