1. Unfinished Legacies Yankee Doodle & Johnny Reb Go Manufacturing & Farming Off Toward War

2. “Deal with the Large While It Is Still Small” – old proverb  Two Separate Nations  Federal vs. states’ rights  Agrarian slavery vs. urban mercantilism  Industrial revolution hits U.S.  Immigration to North  Periodic depressions  “Foreigners” on continent vs. “American rights”  Manifest Destiny (and slavery) on the march  Gold discovery in CA  New literary culture vs. American pragmatism

3. The Modern, Practical North  Eli Terry’s mass- produced clocks  1800: 1 of 10 Americans owned clock  1850: over 9 in 10 did  4000 interchangeable wooden parts  “Time is money”  Standardized divisions of labor, school, etc.  Replaces old agricultural time  McCormick reapers  Steam power  “magnetic” telegraph

4. Eli Whitney’s patent (1794)  Eli Whitney, Yale law student  His (?) “cotton engine”  Federal patent law Federal patent law  1850: US grows ¾ of world’s cotton  Makes 2/3 of US exports  Tobacco prices fall  Increases need for slaves, price of land  1860: 1 of 3 southerners a slave  Immigrants settle North, where they find 72% of US manufacturing

5. Remember the Alamo!!!

6. “Not by conquest, thank God!”  “America’s most naked war of territorial aggression” – Ken Davies  “The determination of our slaveholding President... is evident... none seem willing to take their stand for peace at all risks” – Frederick Douglass, in his North Star  Heroes, anthems, political candidates  Also good training for Civil War generals  Completes “destiny” – why we are here  Why who is here?  The Zimmermann Telegram (1917)  Germany offers Mexico chance to get it back!