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Title: building a nation The era of good feelings NATIONALISM AND NATIONBUILDING part I: 1800 1820


1
building a nationThe era of good
feelingsNATIONALISM AND NATION-BUILDINGpart
I 1800 -- 1820
2
EXPANSION AND MIGRATION
  • Extending the Boundaries
  • The Adams-Onis Treaty (Transcontinental Treaty
    with Spain 1817)
  • US acquires Florida and a new boundary in the
    West along the Sabine, the Red, and the Arkansas
    River
  • Interest in West grew as the fur trade became
    popular and the idea of the rugged mountain man
    spread throughout the country!

3
EXPANSION AND MIGRATION
  • settlement to the Mississippi
  • Settlers push westward--------Native American are
    displaced
  • Squatters Rights
  • Granted squatters the right to buy the frontier
    land they had already improved at the minimum
    price.
  • As settlers needs grew, local marketing centers
    grew.growth of cities!
  • The people and culture of the frontier
  • Settlers brought with them elements of their
    civilized eastern culture
  • Attracted to more land, many pulled up and moved
    further west!
  • The American Frontier was popularized by the
    Romantic Era

4
transportation and the market economy
  • A revolution in transportation roads and
    steamboats
  • Robert Fultons Steamboat (1807)revolutionized
    the Americas transit
  • the canal boom
  • In an attempt to link the Great Lakes, the first
    of the canals was built in 1825

5
transportation and the market economy
  • emergence of the market economy
  • The availability of good farmland, increasing
    demand for cotton, the invention of the cotton
    gin, and slave labor made the South the worlds
    greatest cotton producer! Promoted Regionalism
    in the United States!
  • commerce and banking
  • Extension of credit by local merchants and
    manufacturers leads to a higher demand for money.
    RESULT a rapid growth of state and private
    banks!
  • Early industrialism
  • The surge of the Market Economy caused an
    increase in the growth of industry and factories.
  • The first industry to grow was the textile
    industry..cotton!!!!!!

6
politics of nation building
  • Republicans in power
  • Henry Clays American System was designed to
    create a strong, stable economy that bolstered
    national unity as well as making the country
    self-sufficient3 Major Components
  • Est. of protective tariff designed to limit
    foreign goods entering the country. Northerners
    welcomed it, Southerners resented it.
  • Est. of the Second Bank of the United States
    (BUS) in 1816 most regions had their own
    currency and business transactions were
    difficult BUS provided a national currency.
  • Development of transportation systems (As shown
    on previous slides)
  • Monroe as president
  • Background Info Napoleon is defeated, Spain and
    Portugal want to reclaim lands in Americas.
    Russia (Occupied Alaska), wanted to move into N.
    California. This would threaten American trade
    with China.
  • Result MONROE DOCTRINE Eastern Hemi stays away
    from Western Hemi and Vice-Versa

7
politics of nation building
  • the Missouri compromise
  • As America pushed westward, new states had to be
    formed! The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 laid out
    a system for a territory to become a state.
  • By 1819, the Union consisted of 10 Free and 10
    Slave States.Question What would be the
    potential problem if a new state was to be
    admitted? SLAVE OR FREE.UNBALANCE IN CONGRESS
  • Solution MISSOURI COMPROMISE.war maybe
    avoided!!!!! Maine will be admitted as a free
    state, and Missouri as a slave state LA
    Territory would then use the 3630 line as a
    boundary for future admittance into the
    Union

8
politics of nation building
  • postwar nationalism and the supreme court
  • The Supreme Court under the leadership of Chief
    Justice John Marshall expanded the powers of the
    federal government and made great contributions
    to nationalism!
  • Major Court Rulings Limiting State Power
  • Fletcher v Peck (1810) Nullified a Georgia law
    declaring it unconstitutional
  • Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) state may
    not interfere with contracts
  • Strengthening Government Economic Control
  • McCulloch v Maryland (1819) declared BUS
    constitutional. States could not levy taxes on
    BUS
  • Gibbons v Ogden (1824) Federal government has the
    power to regulate interstate trade
  • THE END OF THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS WAS SOON TO
    BE OVER! THE SLEEPING SERPENT WAS ABOUT TO BE
    AWOKEN!

9
building a nationTHE TRIUMPH OF WHITE MENS
DEMOCRACYpart Ii 1820 -- 1840
10
democracy in theory and practice
  • the democratic ferment an age of agitation
  • Democracy a form of government in which the
    supreme power is vested in the people and
    exercised directly by them or by their elected
    agents under a free voting system.
  • Background Information
  • Most state eliminated property ownership for
    voting requirements
  • Public political involvement swelled and a
    two-party system became permanent
  • Concerns Economic ?s (Panic of 1819) Role of
    Federal Government
  • Producers as well as laborers became organized
    (unions) in interest of promoting individual
    rights
  • Abolitionists fought to end slavery and promote
    womens rights

11
democracy in theory and practice
  • democracy and society
  • Social Equality became the dominant principle of
    the time
  • Social Privilege was no longer a requirement for
    success, Industrialization increased inequality
    in terms of wealth and opportunity
  • Alexis de Tocqueville Self-Made men could now
    rise in stature.

12
Jackson and the politics of democracy
  • the election of 1824 and j.q. Adams
    administration
  • Jackson Rises to National Fame
  • Here of the Battle of New Orleans
  • Result of Popular Sovereignty authority based on
    popular support
  • Jackson wins popular vote but loses presidential
    election to Adams
  • Rumors of a corrupt bargain between Adams and
    Clay, as well as problems with tariffs being
    placed on imported goods.
  • I weep for the Liberty of my country, The
    rights of the people have been bartered for
    promises of office.

13
Jackson and the politics of democracy
  • Jackson comes to power
  • Massive public turnout
  • Jackson is supported by the newly formed
    Democratic Party ---Formerly known as the
    Jeffersonian Republicans---
  • Endorsed the Spoils System
  • To the victor go the spoils.
  • When Jackson wins the office of the presidency,
    he hand picked his own supporters to head federal
    agencies.
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