APUSH PERIOD FOUR (1800-1848) KEY CONCEPTS REVIEW

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Key Concept 4.1

The United States began to develop a modern democracy and celebrated a new national culture, while
Americans sought to define the nation’s democratic ideals and change their society and institutions to
match them.
I. The nation’s transition to a more participatory democracy was achieved by expanding suffrage from a system
based on property ownership to one based on voting by all adult white men, and it was accompanied by the growth
of political parties.
A) In the early 1800s, national political * Jeffersonians dedicated to reducing the powers of the federal
parties continued to debate issues such government (allowed Alien and Sedition Acts, Bank of the United
as the tariff, powers of the federal States to lapse; removed forty of Federalist “midnight
government, and relations with appointments”; abolished all internal taxes, including the dreaded
European powers. Whiskey Rebellion tax; reduced size of army; Treasury Secretary
Albert Gallatin lowered national debt in half, cut ties with
Hamiltonian elites)
* Jeffersonians, somewhat hypocritically, expanded the power of
the federal government through the disaster of the Embargo Act
of 1807, and the smashing success of the Louisiana Purchase
(which then drove the Federalists in New England and New York
to ponder secession in the Essex Junto of 1804, which led to
Aaron Burr joining them, and then dueling with Alexander
Hamilton – got milk? – Federalists saw their power seriously
threatened by new states in West and South that would almost
certainly be Jeffersonian)
* Jefferson was pro-French, until issue of New Orleans being
blocked arose (Louisiana Purchase resolved this problem)
* Embargo Act, then Non-Intercourse Act, tried to ban and/or
limit trade with Britain and France to try and stop them from
interfering with American trade, as well as British impressment
* War of 1812 deeply opposed by Federalists, who wanted to
keep trading with Britain, and definitely did NOT want war,
despite interference with trade and impressment; Jeffersonian
War Hawks were westerners who wanted the war to go grab
Canada, kill western Indians (Tecumseh and his brother
Temskwatawa), and grab Florida (voting records show it was a
“western war with eastern labels”)
* Federalists blocked the War of 1812 in any way possible –
refused to make loans to the government, refused to commit
militias, refused to support tariffs to finance war, even celebrated
British victories at times
* Hartford Convention of 1814 toyed with secession, but instead
proposed limiting the powers of the federal government (one
term presidency, 60-day limit to trade embargoes, 2/3 vote to
declare war, prohibit trade, or admit new states); Jackson’s
victory in New Orleans, and end of war, made them seem traitors
* Hamiltonian idea of protective tariff resurrected by Henry Clay
in the aftermath of War of 1812; Tariff of 1816 (textiles)
A) cont. * Second Bank of the United States created in 1816 by Henry Clay
and James Madison because they’d realized without a national
bank, federal government couldn’t run a war or economy
effectively (Federalists ran the biggest state banks)
* Clay proposed internal improvements to expand infrastructure,
but Madison vetoed on a strict interpretation, and suggested a
constitutional amendment to allow them
B) Supreme Court decisions established the * Marbury v. Madison (1803) established the principle of judicial
primacy of the judiciary in determining review over presidential or congressional actions (judicial review
the meaning of the Constitution and over states already established, but Marbury firmed up the right)
asserted that federal laws took (next use on a federal level: 54 years later in the Dred Scott
precedence over state laws. decision)
* Fletcher v. Peck (1810) ruled that states could not overturn
contracts previously agreed to (limits state power, protects
investors from other states , encouraged investment from one
state to another in a national economy)
* Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) refused to allow New
Hampshire to overturn charter for Dartmouth, to turn it into
public university (a contract is a contract)
* McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) denied the state of Maryland the
right to tax a national institution (affirmed supremacy of national
government; affirmed loose construction of the Constitution as
the correct one, not strict interpretation Maryland wanted)
C) By the 1820s and 1830s, new political * Federalists collapse after War of 1812, but Republicans split
parties arose — the Democrats, led, by into two groups: the Jeffersonians morph into the Democratic-
Andrew Jackson, and the Whigs, 
 led by Republicans, which eventually become the Democrats, and the
Nationalist Republicans, which eventually become the Whigs
Henry Clay — that disagreed about the
* Nationalist Republicans adopt many of the Federalist positions,
role and powers of the federal
with Henry Clay and his American System (national bank,
government and issues such as the
protective tariffs, internal improvements) being very
national bank, tariffs, and federally
Hamiltonian; Whigs stand on the concept of a meritocracy, the
funded internal improvements.
self-made man of Franklin, the man of talent rising
* “Corrupt Bargain” of 1824 drove a wedge between supporters
of John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson (and turned Henry
Clay into a widely reviled figure for a certain segment of the
population)
* Jacksonian Democrats stand for the common man (as long as
he’s white), hostility to banks and federal power (usually), as well
as Henry clay and his American System; tend to be pro-slave and
states’ rights
* Second Party System fully emerged in 1834 over hostility
towards “King Andrew”: Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C.
Calhoun organized the Whig Party
* Tariff issues drove much of their disagreements: 1824 tariff had
raised protections on textiles above 1816 tariffs, but the 1828
tariff (promoted by Jacksonians so Jackson could win some New
England and northern votes in 1828 election) became a trigger
event, as South Carolina called it the Tariff of Abominations,
because they bought British goods and thus paid a bigger chunk
of taxes; South Carolina proceeded to threaten secession and
C) cont. declared the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 null and void, and refused
to allow collection of duties. John C. Calhoun had resurrected
Jefferson’s states’ rights position from the Virginia and Kentucky
Resolves
* The Nullification Crisis exploded on the national scene; the
Webster-Payne Debate of 1830 pitched the nationalist Daniel
Webster (“Liberty and union, now and forever, one and
inseparable!”) against Calhoun’s stand-in, Robert Payne; Jackson
declared South Carolina to be in violation of the Constitution, and
threatened to invade with the Force Bill; at the same time, he and
Clay worked out a deal to lower the tariff; SC backed down
* Prior to the 1832 election, Henry Clay and Daniel Webster were
looking for a campaign issue to attack Jackson over, and chose to
push Nicholas Biddle to ask for an early recharter of the Second
Bank of the United States (not due to expire until 1836; Clay and
Webster badly underestimated popular support for the Bank,
which was widely hated, as were most banks); Jackson, as
expected, vetoed it; Clay then ran on that issue, accusing Jackson
of inappropriate use of veto power; Jackson then ran to a
landslide attacking the Bank as an instrument of “special
privilege” that served the rich; after winning re-election, Jackson
claimed he had a mandate to destroy the Bank, and he proceeded
to pull all federal funds out of the national bank, depositing them
instead in the state banks (known as “pet banks”), which were far
less careful with their practices; the “pet banks” helped
contribute to the causes of the Panic of 1837
* Henry Clay’s endorsement of federally funded internal
improvements was halted by Andrew Jackson vetoing the
extension of the National Road into Clay’s home state of
Kentucky; Jackson vetoed it claiming it was entirely in one state,
but the so-called Maysville Road Veto was more than likely a
personal attack on Clay than a constitutional stand (after Jackson
successfully brought the national debt to ZERO, Clay talked him
into releasing the federal surpluses to the states for the purposes
of internal improvements, which created a canal- and road-
building boom that contributed to the Panic of 1837 by creating
inflation) [Jackson hated Clay, and Clay’s American System, and
effectively destroyed all three parts of it]
* Jackson instituted a new trend towards what would become the
“spoils system” by using government jobs as political rewards;
while Jackson himself didn’t fire competent government
appointees, his successors would shortly fire everybody they
could and hand out the jobs as political plums, thus building
political machines
* 1840 election saw Whig party trying to capitalize on
resentments over Panic of 1837 to destroy Martin Van Buren’s
chances of re-election [“Martin Van Ruin” / “Van, Van, Van is a
used up man”](Whigs chose a Jackson clone and ran a very-
populist style election – “Log Cabin and Hard Cider” to win, only
to see Harrison die; Democrat John Tyler was on the ticket as an
C) cont. anti-Jackson man, but he vetoed the Whig program once in office,
leading the entire cabinet except Secretary of State Webster to
jump ship)
D) Regional interests often trumped * western War Hawks went to war over national interests in War
national concerns as the basis for many of 1812
political leaders’ positions on slavery * Hartford Convention placed their interests over the national
and economic policy. government, by demanding changes in the Constitution
(particularly on economic issues of foreign trade)
* John C. Calhoun’s support for the doctrine of nullification placed
the needs of one state over the national government (although an
argument can be made he was delaying secession to keep the
nation together by suggesting the stage of nullification before
outright departure)
* Calhoun resigned the VP and joined the Whigs to promote his
own agenda (slavery, among other issues) rather than
maintaining national unity (also, the Peggy Eaton sex scandal led
the entire cabinet to resign as well)
* Jackson vetoed the Maysville Road and other internal
improvements largely as a personal attack on Clay
* Clay manipulated the Senate into censuring Jackson as a
personal attack
* Jackson’s stand on slavery led him to support censorship of the
national mail and the Gag Rule in the House
* John Quincy Adams spent his post-presidential career
assaulting slavery through his position in the House, regardless of
the consequences on national unity
* Positions towards Texas often shifted with the political winds,
as politicians flip-flopped over the issue of annexation, depending
on which direction different areas were trending (Jackson, Clay,
Tyler, Van Buren, Polk, all manipulated this issue)
* political machines often favored local issues over national
issues
* Polk sacrificed his campaign slogan of “54’ 40 or fight!” in favor
of the Mexican-American war, which offered more of a chance to
spread slavery than a war with Britain did
II. While Americans embraced a new national culture, various groups developed distinctive cultures of their own.
A) The rise of democratic and * In the wake of the American Revolution, and accelerating
individualistic beliefs, a response to towards the rise of the Jacksonian Democrats, the franchise
rationalism, and changes to society spread out to almost all white males, while appointed offices
caused by the market revolution, along increasingly became elected (after 1830, most states rewrote
with greater social and geographical their constitutions to move towards Jacksonian ideals of
mobility, contributed to a Second Great democracy, as well as moving towards a more laissez-faire
Awakening among Protestants that approach to the economy)
influenced moral and social reforms and * religious revivals began to move away from predestination,
inspired utopian and other religious opening up salvation to everybody who wanted it (more
movements. democratically-oriented religions like Baptists and Methodists
proved more popular than hierarchical faiths like Episcopalians)
* sentimentalism and romanticism began to replace
Enlightenment values, as feelings became more important than
reason
A) cont. * Market Revolution and Industrial Revolution made more and
more luxury goods affordable and available to individuals, raising
the standard of living (also creating a class-based society in the
North, including urban poor, who were often recent immigrants)
* More and more (white) Americans were able to climb up the
economic ladder, either through education or migrating west to
new farmlands; also, widening of the franchise to almost all white
males increased political power
* Second Great Awakening interacted extensively with
economics, politics, and social demands, creating a white
Christian society that expected Christianity to be the norm, in
both public and private life; unlike First Great Awakening,
churches did not split into factions or become hostile to each
other; rather, they began friendly competitions to help make a
better society (unless the Christians in question were Catholic, in
which case, violence, mob actions, and institutionalized
discrimination were more the norm, as in public schools refusing
to use the Catholic Bible, Samuel F.B. Morse writing an anti-
Catholic tract that was widely read, the Order of the Star-
Spangled Banner [the Know-Nothings] and other anti-immigrant,
anti-Catholic Nativist groups)
* Charles Grandison Finney and the Rochester Revival [in the
“burned-out district” along the Erie Canal, which generated many
utopian and religious experiments, including the Mormons]
* Second Great Awakening generated organized reform groups
[the Benevolent Empire] that used revivalist tactics to spread
their influence and membership: temperance, sabbatarianism,
anti-prostitution, prison reform [moving from punishment to
rehabilitation], insane asylums [getting the crazy family members
out of basements and attics and into hospital like settings for
healing], orphanages, abolitionists, and feminism
* Because churches started these reforms, which were often led
by ministers, women could become involved under their
guidance, this affording a pathway to activity outside the home
and social callings
* Utopian, perfectionist experimentation went rampant, as the
drive to create a more ideal society generated dozens of
communes and new religions [Transcendentalism, including
Emerson, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Walt Whitman; Brook
Farm; the Oneida community [John Humphrey Noyes and plural
marriage], the Shakers, the Mormons [polygamy], the Millerites,
Fourierism, and many more]

B) A new national culture emerged that * Emphasis on individualism, social mobility, and democracy
combined American elements, European encouraged new approaches to politics, religion, literature, and
influences, and regional cultural society (particularly in the North)
sensibilities. * Ralph Waldo Emerson took American religious beliefs [Anne
Hutchinson, Quakers, Unitarianism] and melded it with European
Romanticism [Carlyle, Goethe, Wordsworth, Swedenborg] and
Asian religious beliefs [Hinduism and Zen Buddhism, which were
 available in English translation for the first time] to create
B) cont. American Transcendentalism: each one of us holds a piece of God,
which is our true self; Nature is also a mask for God, and we enter
most fully with the divine when we are alone and out in the
wilds; each of us has a duty to that unique piece of divinity in us,
and we need to rely on that piece of the self, or risk becoming less
than we are meant to be [“Envy is ignorance...imitation is
suicide...Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron
string...whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist].
Speaker at our school once said a very Emersonian thing: “All of
us are born originals; most of us die copies”]
* Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Walt Whitman all followed Emerson’s
lead; Emerson was the most successful thinker and lecturer and
writer of the next half-century, until Twain; at the turn of the 20th
Century, most literate households had a copy of the Bible, and a
set of his essays
* Sentimentalism / Romanticism imports European Romanticism
* Urban culture increasingly open sexually (prostitution;
homosexuality); popular culture emerged (minstrelsy,
melodrama, popular songs [Stephen Foster]; immigrants added
more languages and foods
* belief in Manifest Destiny widespread in North and South
* cheap newspapers, steam printing presses, railroads,
steamboats, canals all began spreading ideas on a national scale
* reform became a common aspect of American culture, although
less so in the South; temperance, abolition, women’s rights, social
reforms, utopian communities all significant aspects of new
culture
* Northeast and Northwest merged into a common culture and
political/economic alliance through the Erie Canal (trade, New
England migration west)
* slavery bound together the South
* North and South growing further apart
C) Liberal social ideas from abroad and * Fourierism brought a theory of social evolution to America, and
Romantic beliefs in human perfectibility applied here to free workers from capitalist employers
influenced literature, art, philosophy, * European Romanticism began driving in ideas about the beauty
and architecture. of nature, the goodness of mankind (the “noble savage” idea
emerges here), the supernatural nature of the world, the models
of history and myth, the importance of feeling, imagination, and
intuition over reason
* British example of abolition both inspired and frightened
Americans on either side of the slavery issue
* Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman writing American
Transcendentalism (American Renaissance / American versions
of Romanticism)
* Emerson: “Self-Reliance”; “The American Scholar” ; Nature; his
poetry
* Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience”; Walden
* Fuller: edited The Dial, wrote Woman in the Nineteenth Century
*Whitman: Leaves of Grass; “Song of Myself” [bit out of period]
C) cont. * Hudson River School began painting these enormous canvases
of scenes from nature in upstate New York and elsewhere
(Thomas Cole followed the Erie Canal to do the first paintings of
the area
* Emerson and Thoreau’s works double as philosophy and lit
* Architecture: Greek Revival Style [columns], Gothic Revival [St.
Patrick’s Cathedral, NYC]m Italiante style [emphatic eaves and
flat roofs]
D) Enslaved blacks and free African * Adoption of English provided a common tongue for most slaves,
Americans created communities and helping to erode tribal thinking (Gullah dialect didn’t travel to
strategies to protect their dignity and new areas)
family structures, and they joined * Second Great Awakening saw a widespread adoption of
political efforts aimed at changing their Christianity, which gave a common religion, as well as a narrative
status. for freedom (Moses and the Hebrews enslaved by the Egyptians,
and their escape to freedom) and a message of equality with
whites, as both white and black were children of God
* African-American “ring shout” / call and response (later turned
into the structure of jazz) transformed Christian services
* African prohibitions against incest persisted
* jumping the broom marriage ceremonies
* fictive kinship for “aunts” and “uncles” preserved family
* naming practices continued from Africa
* black churches formed (free blacks also created a variety of
institutions to help them survive, from churches to newspapers
to schools to relief societies)
* slaves learned to negotiate with masters for rewards and limits
on work, through the task system and the right to be hired out for
extra work and pay
* passive resistance most effective response to slavery, but
running away and violence not uncommon
* Nat Turner’s Rebellion the largest attempt to violently
overthrow slavery in this period
* David Walker wrote his Appeal to threaten violent response if
slavery were not ended
* 1830 national convention in Philadelphia called for free blacks
to devise response to slavery: they wanted freedom and race
equality
* many free blacks joined the abolitionist movement, and whites
and blacks together founded the American Anti-Slavery Society,
as well as other groups
* free blacks helped support William Lloyd Garrison and his
newspaper, The Liberator
* free blacks helped form and run the Underground Railroad
(Harriet Tubman most famous conductor)
* helped send petitions to Congress to end slavery
* Frederick Douglass and other former slaves spoke on
abolitionist circuit, wrote books, published articles and
newspapers
III. Increasing numbers of Americans, many inspired by new religious and intellectual movements, worked primarily
outside of government institutions to advance their ideals.
A) Americans formed new voluntary * Second Great Awakening created new organized reform
organizations that aimed to change societies, which selected and trained missionaries and produced
individual behaviors and improve religious texts: American Education Society; Bible Society;
society through temperance and other Sunday School Union; Tract Society; Home Missionary Society
reform efforts. * American Anti-Slavery Society organized abolitionist efforts
(William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator)
* Benevolent Empire: series of organized attempts to stop
alcoholism, adultery, prostitution, crime – and various groups
formed for just that purpose [modern equivalent: M.A.D.D.]
* American Temperance Society: temperance wildly successful:
alcohol consumption fell from 5 gallons per capita in 1830 to 2
gallons in 1845 (“taking the pledge”; the “Cold Water Cure”;
hundreds of thousands of children joined the “Cold Water
Army”); Irish and German immigrants HATED temperance
movement, as well as Sabbatarianism, which said they couldn’t
have fun on their one day off a week from work (Sabbatarianism
tried to close down all businesses and transportation on Sundays
[effects lasted well into the 20th century, with most businesses
remaining closed on Sundays as late as the Seventies])
* Dorothea Dix formed movements to reform the treatment of the
insane and criminals
* health food movements rampant throughout nineteenth
century (minister Sylvester Graham invented the Graham cracker
as a health food that would curb masturbation…he blamed
cookies for the urge to sex…today’s Graham cracker is full of
sugar…) [out of period, but Kellogg’s Corn Flakes began to be sold
in the early twentieth century as a remedy for the ills Kellogg
thought eating meat caused…]
* Thoreau hated these groups, making fun of them in Walden: “If I
knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the
conscious design of doing me good, I would run for my life.” [He
objected to any kind of forced behavior; the individual should
make all choices for him or herself]
B) Abolitionist and antislavery movements * North largely outlawed slavery, albeit slowly, after the
gradually achieved emancipation in the Revolutionary War – completely gone by 1840; South refused to,
North, contributing to the growth of the and continued to enforce their control of slavery (War of 1812
free African American population, even saw attempts to get British to pay for slaves they freed during
as many state governments restricted war; Congress upheld slavery in D.C.);
African Americans’ rights. Antislavery * American Colonization Society established to end slavery, but
efforts in the South were largely limited only to return them to Africa; president of society was James
to unsuccessful slave rebellions. Monroe, for whom the capital of the American-founded state of
Liberia in Africa named their capital after: Monrovia
* Argument shifted from 1800 to 1830: slavery went from being
anti-republican to being a sin (accompanying shift in South went
from slavery being a “necessary evil” to a “positive good”)
* Among free black communities, efforts shifted from “racial
uplift: (become respectable through hard work to gain equality)
to a more strident abolitionism, particularly with David Walker
B) cont. and his Appeal, which threatened violence
* free blacks faced racism in the North and South; kept in low-
paying jobs, rarely owned land; rarely had right to vote in the
North, or right to testify in court (only MA); a few rose to
prominence: Benjamin Banneker helped design D.C.; Joshua
Johnson was a painter; Paul Cuffee was a wealthy businessman.
* free blacks in North created churches, schools, mutual aid
societies; free blacks in South often formed working class in
towns and as skilled laborers
* Nat Turner’s Rebellion had a terrible backlash: when Virginia
failed to pass a gradual emancipation bill, the South instead
passed tougher slave codes, clamped down on black freedom to
travel, banned the right to read, and on the national level,
instituted a Gag Rule in Congress to prevent even the discussion
of abolition or emancipation, while Jackson instituted censorship
in the U.S. mails to ban abolitionist literature
* white and black abolitionists worked together to form societies
in the north, publish newspapers (Garrison, The Liberator;
Frederick Douglass, The North Star), create the Underground
Railroad, formed mobs to prevent runaway slaves from being
retaken, and launched a petition crusade to Congress (which led
to the Gag Rule)
* Garrison demanded immediate, uncompensated emancipation,
and burned the U.S. Constitution, but his insistence on pacifism,
women’s rights, and prison reform led to splitting of American
Anti-Slavery Society in two (one branch formed the Liberty Party,
which led to 1840 presidential campaign under James G. Birney)
C) A women’s rights movement sought to * women were supposed to remain at home, in a “separate
create greater equality and sphere”; “cult of domesticity” celebrated them as wives and
opportunities for women, expressing its mothers, and magazines and books fed the image of a beautiful
ideals at the Seneca Falls Convention. home and wife awaiting the husband and children’s return
(middle class respectability demanded a wife remain at home,
and keep the house immaculate [in some sense, this hasn’t
changed: Martha Stewart, Good Housekeeping, continued
disparity in chores being done at home by women more than
men, etc]
* through their churches, women got involved in reform
movements and took up social involvement outside the home
* Dorothea Dix reforming treatment of insane and criminals
* Women widely supported Horace Mann and his educational
reforms: teaching standards, longer school year, training, and
most especially, women being hired as teachers (after Lowell Mill
girls, the first major job outside the home for women)
* involvement in abolition movement led to their own women’s
rights movement (also, writing became a potential outlet: Harriet
Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; Grimke sisters,
abolitionist tracts; Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
[1852, so a bit out of period])
* women began to argue that their gender were treated just like
slaves
 C) cont. * fight over legal rights began, beginning with successful fight to
have married women maintain the right to own property (rich
men supported this, as they wanted their daughters to control
inheritance, not son-in-laws)
* Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the Seneca
Falls Convention in 1848, which declared that “All men and
women are created equal” – began fight for legal equality,
particularly legal rights to sue, testify, have child custody, and
control property: most importantly, the fight to vote!
* Susan B, Anthony became the most effective crusader
Key Concept 4.2:
Innovations in technology, agriculture, and commerce powerfully accelerated the American economy,
precipitating profound changes to U.S. society and to national and regional identities.
I. New transportation systems and technologies dramatically expanded manufacturing and agricultural production.
A) Entrepreneurs helped to create a market
revolution in production and commerce,
in which market relationships between
producers and consumers came to
prevail as the manufacture of goods
became more organized.

B) Innovations including textile machinery, * The U.S. was the second nation to industrialize, following in
steam engines, interchangeable parts, Britain’s footsteps (and often engaging in serious industrial
the telegraph, and agricultural espionage in order to do so, as well as hiring British mechanics
inventions increased the efficiency of like Samuel Slater; American Francis Cabot Lowell toured British
production methods. factories then went back to hotel and drew out plans)
* outwork system replaced artisans (and then was replaced by
the factory system in turn: good example was the “disassembly”
of pigs in “Porkopolis” by a system of overhead rails)
* American advantages: abundant natural resources, the fall line
of the Appalachian mountains offered cheap water power,
American inventiveness countered lack of cheap labor with
technological innovations (British had cheap labor, so they didn’t
turn to tech as we did; British also had better banking and control
of Atlantic trade; Lowell Mill girls and then Irish immigrants gave
us cheaper labor); protective tariffs also aided us
* Franklin Institute and other mechanics’ associations provided
education and support for technological innovation (patens went
from 200 a year in 1820 to four thousand a year in 1860)
* machine tools invented to create parts efficiently and exactly
* Eli Whitney’s invention of interchangeable parts pointed to
more efficient way to make goods, and repair them, than artisans
* machine tools led to better textile machines, which worked
faster and better than British as a result
 * Market Revolution resulted when transportation networks
were built in the 1820s to make delivery of supplies and goods
faster, more efficient, and farther reaching
* National Road built by federal government from Mayrland
through Illinois
* Erie Canal the great breakthrough, ending the transportation
bottleneck over the Appalachian Mountains when it was finished
in 1825 [tied together the Northeast to the Northwest, both
politically and economically, tying New England manufactured
goods and western food, and allowing massive migration west,
especially for Puritan descendants who moved entire towns and
churches west)
* national canal boom resulted throughout the North
* rivers linked together the West, but invention of steamboat by
Robert Fulton critical, because steamboats could go upstream
* water power eventually replaced by coal-driven steam engines,
on both land and sea
* railroads eventually became the dominant transportation
network, eventually displacing canals and river travel
* Cities and manufacturing spread across the North as a result
(much less so than in the South, which stayed committed to
slavery and agriculture)
* Samuel F. B. Morse’s invention of telegraph offered first rapid
communication network, facilitating trade and exchange of
information
* Cyrus McCormick’s reaper dramatically expanded a farmer’s
ability to reap grain – from 2 acres a day, to 12 acres a day
* John Deere’s steel plow allowed more production, and also let
the Great Plains be farmed [dense mat of vegetation couldn’t be
cut easily with old iron plows)
* New York City used the Erie Canal to seize the leadership in the
American economy, and rapidly dominated foreign and domestic
trade
C. Legislation and judicial systems * protective tariffs passed in 1816, 1824, and 1828 helped
supported the development of roads, canals, emerging American businesses to compete more effectively with
and railroads, which extended and enlarged British
markets and helped foster regional * New York building the Erie Canal (merchants and Governor De
interdependence. Transportation networks Witt Clinton agreed to use tax revenue to pay for it, with Irish
linked the North and Midwest more closely immigrants doing the grunt work)
than either was linked to the South. * other states also financed canal building, especially in the North,
which emerged as a political, cultural, and economic juggernaut
as a result, replacing the South as the richest, most politically
powerful area of the country [one could argue this is, along with
slavery, the cause of the Civil War]
* federal government building the National Road
* federal government established Post Office, facilitating spread
of information
* Gibbons v. Ogden saw the Supreme Court expanding the
definition of commerce, and securing control of interstate trade
for Supreme Court
C) cont. * states issued charters for railroads, helping to get them built,
and further tying the Northern states together
II. The changes caused by the market revolution had significant effects on U.S. society, workers’ lives, and gender
and family relations.
A. Increasing numbers of Americans, * Lowell Mill girls (given parental-style chaperones, taken to
especially women and men working in church, watched over for moral behavior) – our first factory labor
factories, no longer relied on force
semisubsistence agriculture; instead they * replaced by poor Irish immigrants
supported themselves producing goods for * outwork system engaged many farmers and wives in helping in
distant markets. production process, or in making cheeses for sale
* workers begin working for pay instead of living off their own
production
* early unionization efforts resulted from dissatisfaction with
employer treatment (Lowell Mill girls even struck) and from
Panic of 1937
* typically, courts ruled against unions and strikes, but
Commonwealth v. Hunt, from the Massachusetts Supreme Court,
was an exception in ruling unions had right to strike
B. The growth of manufacturing drove a * standard of living rose for the middle class, but a new working
significant increase in prosperity and class poor also emerged, along with an extremely wealthy class
standards of living for some; this led to the on top of the social ladder\
emergence of a larger middle class and a * Prior to Industrial Revolution, a common culture was typically
small but wealthy business elite but also to a shared by the entire social ladder; now, the rich lived away from
large and growing population of laboring means of production, and set themselves apart by their clothing,
poor. housing, neighborhoods, and pastimes
* Middle class saw a substantial rise in income, allowing them to
purchase luxuries only afforded by rich previously; they adopted
genteel culture of books, art, pianos, servants, furnaces for heat
and hot water, ovens, iceboxes, sewing machines, packaged
goods; children were now educated through high school, and
taught to pursue a career, a calling; Franklin’s autobiography
became huge bestseller, and a role model of the self-made
man(the title everybody bought was the Way to Wealth)
* Slaves and working class poor on the bottom of the social
ladder, with little chance of escape; immigrants often filled this
class
* Poor barely survived, always living on the edge of economic
failure; debt a common thing for the poor; manufactured goods
not affordable, nor was education, since children had to go to
work; they lived in overcrowded, unsafe conditions, and slums
emerged in cities; alcohol consumption high, even on the job;
crime rampant
C. Gender and family roles changed in * Men and women separated during the day, as men went to work
response to the market revolution, somewhere else, and women remained at home
particularly with the growth of definitions of * separate sphere / cult of domesticity [see 1.1.III.C above]
domestic ideals that emphasized 
 the
separation of public and private spheres.
III. Economic development shaped settlement and trade patterns, helping to unify the nation while also encouraging
the growth of different regions..
A. Large numbers of international migrants * Irish Catholics largest group of immigrants between the
moved to industrializing northern cities, Revolutionary War and the Civil War, followed by Germans (often
while many Americans moved west of the Catholic) [biggest groups before Rev: Scots-Irish and Germans;
Appalachians, developing thriving new largest ethnic group in America in 2010: German-Americans]
communities along the Ohio and Mississippi * Irish filled Boston and New York City; Germans came to New
rivers. York and Western cities; Catholics fought for their own churches
and schools (parish school system the result)
* Eric Canal and railroads accelerated internal migration to Ohio
and Mississippi River valleys, as farmers sought new lands;
Puritans migrated in entire towns and churches; white yeoman
farmers fled South into Ohio to escape economic limitations of
slave society (Lincoln’s father moving them from Kentucky to
Indiana then Illinois, for example)
* expansion of manufacturing to Cleveland, Chicago, and Midwest
drew more immigrants to fill jobs
* slavery moved into Old Southwest, rapidly filling up Alabama,
Mississippi, and Louisiana, as well as Arkansas and Missouri to a
lesser degree
B. Increasing Southern cotton production * Eli Whitney’s cotton gin rescued slavery from economic decline
and the related growth of Northern and made cotton King; Alabama and Missisippi rapidly settled by
manufacturing, banking, and shipping cotton planters
industries promoted the development of * cotton production fed not only the textiles mills of Britain, but
national and international commercial ties. also New England; New England and the North’s economy linked
to slavery (which is one reason why abolitionists were often
assaulted in the North, as they threatened economic prosperity
for many)
* British financing fed the transportation revolution; South kept
trading with Britain, selling them cotton and buying goods, which
is why they hated tariffs so much
* New York City linked to Latin American trade, and European
trade (Erie Canal tied them to rest of country)
* Northeast and Northwest deeply connected by railroads and
canals, as well as commercial ties
C. Southern business leaders continued to * South remained linked to cotton and slavery, and with rare
rely on the production and export of exception, never tried to shift to manufacturing
traditional agricultural staples, contributing * railroads and transportation far less in South
to the growth of a distinctive Southern * Schooling and education rudimentary at best, except for planter
regional identity. class, who relied on tutors
* South increasingly isolated from changes in rest of country, and
the political strengths that had led to Virginia Dynasty began
slipping away as West tended to join North instead
* Essentially, South trapped in the past while the North created
the future
D. Plans to further unify the U.S. economy, * American System promoted by Henry Clay and Whigs [and
such as the American System, generated later, Lincoln, who enacted much of it during Civil War]; North
debates over whether such policies would largely in favor, as it promoted the kind of society they were
benefit agriculture or industry, potentially building
favoring different sections of the country. * South preferred a less nationalist approach, and one more
D) cont. supportive of slavery and agriculture
* Jackson went out of his way to destroy the American System
* Calhoun largely opposed to it, and only joined Whigs out of
opposition to Jackson
* Southerner John Tyler vetoed most of the Whig program when
he became president
Key Concept 4.3:
The U.S. interest in increasing foreign trade and expanding its national borders shaped the nation’s
foreign policy and spurred government and private initiatives.
I. Struggling to create an independent global presence, the United States sought to claim territory throughout the
North American continent and promote foreign trade.
A. Following the Louisiana Purchase, the * Louisiana Purchase acquired from Napoleon (loss of Haiti and
United States government sought influence desperate need for cash led him to sell it for $15 million)
and control over North America and the * Lewis and Clark sent to explore
Western Hemisphere through a variety of * Congress consistently lowered the price of land to encourage
means, including exploration, military migration and yeoman status (Jeffersonian ideal)
actions, American Indian removal, and * William Henry Harrison defeated Temskwatawa at Battle of
diplomatic efforts such as the Monroe Tippecanoe in 1811
Doctrine. * War of 1812 fought, in large part, to assert control over West,
because British were arming Native Americans and encouraging
resistance to American hegemony; Andrew Jackson celebrated as
much for his victory over the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe
Bend as he was for his victory over British at Battle of New
Orleans
* John Quincy Adams is the most important diplomat of the
period: negotiated Treaty of Ghent, ending War of 1812; Rush-
Bagot Treaty fixed the national boundary on the Great Lakes; he
also negotiated the boundary of the Louisiana Purchase with
Britain along Canadian border; Adams-Onis Treaty acquired
Florida from Spain [Andrew Jackson had already invaded it, and
Adams used Jackson to scare Spain into selling it] and ceded
claims Texas to Spain
* Monroe Doctrine, combined with position of neutrality, would
drive most of American foreign policy well into the 20th century;
John Quincy Adams crafted the Monroe Doctrine as a response to
the independence movements in central and South America: 1)
New World now off limits to Europe; 2) promised to not interfere
with European politics or wars [neutrality reinforced]; 3)
Western hemisphere meant for republics, not aristocracies
* Native Americans put under removal policy, to clear the way for
white settlement; Jackson and others argued that it was best for
the Native Americans, to protect them and their culture from
alcohol and white exploitation; War of 1812 saw Creek forced to
cede millions of acres; many Cherokee had assimilated to white
ways, including African slavery, so they didn’t think they had to
remove [Sequoyah had created a Cherokee written language, and
a constitution based on U.S. Constitution]; Georgia didn’t care:
they wanted Cherokee gone – and Jackson supported Georgia,
removing federal troops protecting Cherokee, as well as passing
the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which created Indian Territory
A) cont. [Oklahoma] and “asked” Native Americans east of Mississippi
River to move there; government “promised” Native Americans it
would be theirs forever
* Black Hawk War fought to push Native Americans out of Illinois
and into Wisconsin, and then west of Mississippi [Lincoln
participated]
* Cherokee went to the Supreme Court twice to try and protect
themselves from Georgia: Cherokee Nation v. Georgia ruled that
the Cherokee were not a sovereign nation, but under the control
of the federal government; Worcester v. Georgia rule against
Georgia, saying a state had no right to tell Cherokee what to do, as
this was a federal matter: Andrew Jackson openly defied the
Supreme Court ruling: “John Marshall has made his decision; now
let him enforce it.”
* Trail of Tears resulted in over 3,000 Cherokee dying when
Martin Van Buren ordered army to move them in the middle of
winter to Oklahoma
* only Seminoles in Florida successfully resisted American
attempts to remove them
B. Frontier settlers tended to champion * See A, especially Tippecanoe, Horseshoe Bend, Black Hawk War,
expansion efforts, while American Indian Indian Removal Act, Trail of Tears
resistance led to a sequence of wars and * Tecumseh organized resistance with his brother the Prophet,
federal efforts
 to control and relocate Temskwatawa, but Americans defeated them
American Indian populations.
II. The United States’s acquisition of lands in the West gave rise to contests over the extension of slavery into new
territories.
A. As overcultivation depleted arable land in * Cotton gin made slavery profitable again, and Louisiana
the Southeast, slaveholders began relocating Purchase and War of 1812 opened up Old Southwest to
their plantations to more fertile lands west expansion of slavery and cotton plantations
of the Appalachians, where the institution of * Louisiana (1812), Mississippi (1817), and Alabama (1819)
slavery continued to grow. added as slave states; entire plantations moved to new areas
from South Carolina and Georgia
* Florida added area for cotton slavery
* Texas sought for cotton planters along gulf coast
* Virginia and Maryland (and other border states) profited by
selling surplus slaves “down south”
B. Antislavery efforts increased in the North, “American Colonization Society tried to send Africans back to
while in the South, although the majority of Africa
Southerners owned no slaves, most leaders * Garrison, Douglass, and others shifted to full on abolition
argued that slavery was part of the Southern (immediate uncompensated emancipation)
way of life. * as the North began to cast slavery as a sin and un-Christian,
South began to shift from a “necessary evil” argument to a
“positive good” argument [cotton gin and profits drove defense,
but they also went to the Bible: “Servants, obey thy masters”; tale
of Ham’s curse to be “hewers of wood and bearers of water”;
Southerners began to argue that they took better care of their
“workers” than the North did: cradle to grave care, whereas
North dumped their labor force at a moment’s notice when
profits declined
B) Cont. * Mexican-American war assaulted by abolitionists as a war to
spread slavery (Henry David Thoreau wrote “Civil Disobedience”
as a response to the war and slavery; in Walden, a runaway slave
spends the night with Thoreau at his little cabin, suggesting
Thoreau may have been a stop on the Underground Railroad)

C. Congressional attempts at political * Missouri Compromise an attempt to replicate compromises

compromise, such as the Missouri from Constitutional Convention that had kept the country
Compromise, only temporarily stemmed together over the issue of slavery (Missouri asked for entry as a
growing tensions between opponents and slave state, but Tallmadge Amendment blocking Missouri slavery
defenders of slavery. and Northern-controlled House blocked it; Maine requested entry
as a free state, but Southern-controlled Senate blocked it; South
then tried three arguments: 1) new territories had “equal rights”
with previous states, where no provisions blocking slavery
applied; 2) Constitution guaranteed a state control over its
internal affairs, including slavery; 3) Congress had no right to
interfere with property owners)
* Henry Clay (The Great Compromiser) worked out the deal: 1)
Missouri and Maine both admitted; 2) future state admissions
would be in pairs, one free and one slave; and 3) no future
slavery north of the southern boundary of Missouri (36∘ 30’)
* Gag Rule and censorship of mails followed in 1830s [Elijah
Lovejoy’s murder at the hands of an abolitionist mob; Garrison
burning Constitution as a “covenant with death” and “an
agreement with hell” Garrison almost lynched later by anti-
abolitionist mob in Boston]; Texas annexation and Mexican
American War in 1840s [heading towards Compromise of 1850 in
Period 5