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MALACHI MOSS APUSH PERIOD 4

  • Period 4: 1800-1848
    • 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.
    • 10-17% of exam
    • 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:
    1. Policy debates in the early Republic (tariffs, power of federal government, relations with Europeans)
    2. Impact of regional interests - American system, slavery, etc.
    3. Development and expansion of American foreign policy (control over western hemisphere)
    4. Causes and effects of innovations in technology, agriculture, and commerce (Market Revolution)
    5. Impact of Market Revolution on migration, standards of living, changes in gender roles
    6. Expansion of participatory democracy
    7. Rise of new political parties & their belief systems
    8. Indian resistance to frontier expansion
    9. Romanticism and the development of an American culture
    10. Causes of the Second Great Awakening
    11. How and why reform movements developed through 1848
    12. Rise of antislavery efforts including slave rebellions
    13. African Americans maintaining cultural beliefs
    14. Southern support for slavery and distinctive southern identity
    15. Overcultivation of southern land led to migration west
    16. Growth of the American identity due to cultural & intellectual movements
  • Continuities:
    • Conflict with indigenous
    • Republican Motherhood - Cult of Domesticity
    • Regional attitudes towards slavery
    • Protection of American interests (isolationism)
    • Debates on role of federal government
    • Great Awakening
    • Conflicts with British
  • Changes:
    • Market Revolution
    • Romanticism-->Transcendentalism
    • Abolitionist fervor
    • Uniquely American culture
    • Utopian communities