1. FROM NATIONALISM TO SECTIONALISM
AN AMERICAN TALE

2. Technology Revolution

3. Technology that changes the World
Interchangeable Parts
The Cotton Gin

4. Western Settlers
As territory opens up farmers move in and purchase farm equipment
Farmers grow surplus crops for market
It is necessary to link western farmers with northeastern markets
National Road from Maryland to Ohio
Erie Canal linking Lake Erie to Hudson River
Turnpikes
Railroads
Robert Fulton’s steamboat

5. THE AMERICAN SYSTEM Nationalist Economic Policy
Advocated by Henry Clay
Build new roads and canals linking east to west
Tariff of 1816
Reestablish Second Bank of U.S.

6. Industrial Revolution
First Industrial Revolution was in textiles (manufacture of thread)
Women created thread on spinning wheels at home (cottage industry)
Francis Lowell industrializes textiles with Boston Associates and later Lowell

7. From Cottage Industry to Factory

8. Economic Panics Panic of 1819
Caused by land speculation in west that went bad
Farmers lose their land
Farmers move into factories
Panic of 1837
Caused by President Andrew Jackson closing Bank of the U.S.
Farmers and businesses close

9. American Renaissance

10. Expansion
Adams-Onis Treaty

11. MONROE DOCTRINE
United States warns Europe to stay out of the Western Hemisphere

12. CRISIS FOR NATIONALISM
1819 Missouri applies for statehood as a slave state.
There were 11 slave and 11 free states
Missouri will upset the balance of power
Compromise by Henry Clay
Maine enters as free state, Missouri slave state
36’ 30” parallel