Apush unit 4

Impact of the Supreme Court decisions of the early 1800s

The primacy of the judiciary in determining the meaning of the Constitution (think judicial review)) and giving federal laws power over state governments (think Gibbons v. Ogden and McCulloch v. Maryland)

Whigs and Democrats Disagreed over

Role and powers of the federal government, National Bank, tariffs, federally funded internal improvements (Think Henry Clay's American System)

Impact of the Second Great Awakening

 Moral and social reforms (think abolitionism, women's rights, temperance, etc.)

Seneca Falls Convention

Women's Rights convention that sought greater equality (attended by men too such as Frederick Douglass)

New innovations during the Market Revolution

Textile machinery (spinning jenny), steam engines, interchangeable parts (Eli Whitney), telegraph, and agricultural inventions (cotton gin - Whitney again)

How did the Market Revolution change the production of goods?

Goods were increasingly made outside the home. Women and men began working in factories.

Where did immigrants settle?

Irish settled in northern cities, Germans settled on the frontier - worked as farmers

American System

Henry Clay!'s plan to unify the American economy. Focused on a 2nd BUS, Internal Improvements, and Tariffs. The north and midwest benefitted more than the south.

Monroe Doctrine

President Monroe's message to Europe to NOT colonize any new land in Latin America. The US would stay out of European affairs.

Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820)

3 parts: Maine was a free state, Missouri was a slave state, everything above 3630 latitude line would be free, everything below would be slave. This applied to ONLY the Louisiana Purchase. Later overturned by the Kansas-Nebraska Act