APUSH Unit 4

time period

1800 (Jefferson) - 1848 (Seneca Falls)

How did US try to stay neutral at the beginning of this time period?

Embargo Act- US not allowed to trade with foreign nations → hurt US economy but increased manufacturing

Non-Intercourse Act- US not allowed to trade with France and Britain (attempt to help economy)

What was the War of 1812?

war between Great Britain and Americas

causes: impressment, trade restrictions, Britain supposedly supported NA resistance, Manifest Destiny

effects: no new territory, American nationalism, America seen as a real sovereign nation, end of Federalist Party (Hartford Convention to strategize to stop war exposed)

What was the Era of Good Feelings?

causes: nationalism after 1812, collapse of Federalist Party → one party rule, industrialism → economic growth

good feelings: white male suffrage, westward expansion, patriotism

not really good feelings: rising sectionalism (Missouri Compromise), Panic of 1819 (demand drop after war)

Jackson Presidency

• Democrat

• universal white male suffrage

• spoils system

• “common man”

• Indian Removal Act

• vetoes Second Bank of US

• Tariff of Abominations (1828)- protective tariffs that raised tariff taxes and extended tariffs to include new raw materials→ opposition by SE states→ Nullification by SC & Force Bill

What was Nat Turner’s Rebellion?

Turner and followers killed plantation owners and attempted to free other plantations

effects: more oppressive Black Codes

technological innovation

steamship, steam engine, telegraph, cotton gin, Erie Canal,

Market Economy

goods are produced for sales in competitive markets

causes: technological innovation, industrialization (cottage manufacturing → factories), credit, population growth → labor growth)

effects: urbanization, middle class, Second Great Awakening

What was the Second Great Awakening?

cause: more free time due to Market economy

effects: reconnection with religion (mormonism), but with a more populist feel (Abolitionism, Temperance, Seneca Falls) + Transcendentalism (Henry David Thoreau)

What was Missouri Compromise?

Missouri=slave state, Maine=free state, prohibited slavery above Missouri’s southern border