1. Nationalism
John Q. Adams

2. Nationalism Democracy
First became a popular term to describe American system of government
Popular Sovereignty
Society was less inclined toward aristocracy

3. Nationalism Literature Theater, melodrama
Portrayed lives of “common” Americans
Rise in literacy
George Lippard, Quaker City
Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth, Hidden Hand
Theater, melodrama

4. Nationalism Art, George Caleb Bingham, William Sydney Mount
“Paint pictures that will take with public, never paint for the few but the many”
Hudson River School
Landscape painters
Primarily depicts the Hudson River Valley

5. Mount, Caught Napping

6. Mount, Bargaining for a Horse

7. Bingham, Jolly Flatboat Men

8. Durand, Catskills
Hudson River School

9. Church, Niagara Falls

10. Nationalism Architecture was in the Greek style “Brahmin Poets”
New England
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Novelists
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville

11. Greek Revival

12. Nationalism Universal white male suffrage Economy
Politicians began building statewide political organizations, Martin Van Buren
Economy
How to handle the booms and busts of the market system?
Emergence of the first labor unions

13. Clay, Calhoun, Adams, Jackson

14. Nationalism Election of 1824 Initially a crowded race
Calhoun, Clay, Jackson, Adams, Crawford
No candidate won the necessary electoral votes
Adams won the election
Clay, Speaker of the House, nominated to become Sec. of State
“Jacksonians” called this a corrupt bargain

15. Nationalism Adams had a challenging presidency
Nationalist policies were blamed for the Panic of 1819
Adams continued to call for increased federal activity
Adams supporters lost midterm elections
Jacksonians constantly and openly criticized the administration

16. Nationalism Tariff of 1828 Pressure for greater protection
Really only unpopular in the South
Tariff of Abominations