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.
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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.
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.
People and Events:
Jefferson elected
War of 1812
Tariff of 1816
Monroe Doctrine
Louisiana Purchase
Lowell System
Missouri Compromise
Election of 1824
Tariff of Abominations
Era of Good Feelings
Star Spangled Banner
American System
Second Bank of the U.S.
National Road
Erie Canal
Steamboat
Market Revolution
Lewis & Clark
Battle of Tippecanoe
Indian Removal
Trail of Tears
Marbury v. Madison
War Hawks
Whigs vs Democrats
Temperance
Seneca Falls Convention
Impressment
Barbary Pirates
Embargo Act
Adams-Onis Treaty
Second Great Awakening
Romanticism
Transcendentalism
Hudson River School
Mormons
Indian Removal Act
Shakers
Bank War
Abolition
Cult of Domesticity
Nat Turner
Nullification Crisis
American Anti-Slavery Society founded
Seneca Falls Conference
Themes:
America & National Identity: (NAT)
Work, Exchange, & Technology: (WXT)
Geography & the Environment: (GEO)
Migration & Settlement: (MIG)
Politics and Power (PCE)
America in the World: (WOR)
American & Regional Culture: (ARC)
Social Structures: (SOC)
Documents to Know:
Opinions from Marbury court
Lewis & Clark diaries
King Andrew political cartoon
Sermons by Charles Grandison Finney
Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience"
Walt Whitman "Leaves of Grass"
David Walker's Appeal to Colored Citizens
The Liberator
Declaration of Sentiments
Monroe Doctrine
Cherokee Nation v Georgia
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Details to Know:
Policy debates in the early Republic (tariffs, power of federal government, relations with Europeans)
Impact of regional interests - American system, slavery, etc.
Development and expansion of American foreign policy (control over western hemisphere)
Causes and effects of innovations in technology, agriculture, and commerce (Market Revolution)
Impact of Market Revolution on migration, standards of living, changes in gender roles
Expansion of participatory democracy
Rise of new political parties & their belief systems
Indian resistance to frontier expansion
Romanticism and the development of an American culture
Causes of the Second Great Awakening
How and why reform movements developed through 1848
Rise of antislavery efforts including slave rebellions
African Americans maintaining cultural beliefs
Southern support for slavery and distinctive southern identity
Overcultivation of southern land led to migration west
Growth of the American identity due to cultural & intellectual movements