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Period 4: 1800-1848

1.     Explain how interpretations of the constitution and debates over rights and definitions of citizenship affected American values, politics, and society.

a.     Republican Motherhood

b.     Sacrifice, self-reliance, Rugged Individualism

c.     Frugality and Labor (Prot. Ethic?)

d.     Expansion of suffrage (no longer property owners only, now adult white males)

e.     Marbury v. Madison, Judicial Review

2.     Explain how artistic, philosophical, and scientific ideas help craft national identity.

a.     Noah Webster: dictionary

b.     Phyllis Wheatley: poetry, minority, woman, immigrant, and missionary

c.     Mercy Otis Warren: History of the American Revolution

d.     Benjamin Rush: mental/physical health

e.     Benjamin Banneker: DC Surveyor

f.      Charles Wilson Peale: painter, museum owner

g.     Horace Mann: educational reformer (Normal Schools)

h.     Samuel Slater: textile mills in US

i.      Eli Whitney: Cotton ‘Gin and interchangeable parts

j.      Robert Fulton: Steamship (Clermont)

k.     Henry Clay: American System

l.      Columbia, imagery of America, Liberty, Westward movement

3.     Rise of Political Parties

a.     Federalists/Antifederalists

b.     Democrats – Andrew Jackson (Veto National Bank)

c.     Whigs – Henry Clay (American System), Pro-Bank of the US

d.     Regional interests trumped national concerns for many politicians

                                               i.     Tariff of 1828, SC Expo and Protest

                                             ii.     SC Nullification, Force Bill

                                           iii.     Indian Removal Act, Trail of Tears

                                            iv.     Veto of the Bank of the US, Panic of 1837

e.     Liberty Party/American Antislavery Party

4.     Women’s Rights/Gender Roles

a.     Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth: Underground Railroad

b.     Allowed to pray in public during 2^nd Great Awakening

c.     Oberlin College (Charles G. Finney) opened to women

d.     Mercy Otis Warren, Phyllis Wheatley

e.     Republican Motherhood, Cult of Domesticity

f.      Labor in textile mills

g.     Sarah and Angela Grimke and Dorothea Dix

h.     Seneca Falls, Declaration of Sentiments, E.C. Stanton, Susan B. Anthony

i.      Liberty Party/American Antislavery Party

5.     Second Great Awakening

a.     Charles G. Finney, Oberlin College

b.     Deism and Liberal Theological Trends: LDS, Shakers, Utopians (Oneida), Deists,  and Unitarians / J. Noyes, N.O. Nelson

c.     Evangelical and open to all, Charles G. Finney

d.     Leads to Liberal Social Trends and reform movements: temperance, abolition, prison reforms, women’s rights, schools for the deaf, free education, Frederick Douglass, Lovejoy, W.L. Garrison, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Transcendentalism Sarah and Anglina Grimke, Susan B. Anthony, Lucrecia Mott, EC Stanton, Lyman Beecher, Dorothea Dix, Horace Mann.

e.     Growth of Methodists and Baptists in the West

f.      Conservative reactions: Curse of Ham, Cult of Domesticity, Evangelism, Camp meetings, tent revivals

g.     NY-Burned Over District, Democratic

6.     First Industrial Revolution

a.     Textile Mills and Steam Engines

b.     Urban movement

c.     Shift from Farming to Factories

d.     Shift from domestic agriculture to overseas trade

e.     Market Revolution matching producers and consumers

f.      American System: Roads, Canals, Rail

                                               i.     Immigrant movement west

                                             ii.     North developing more than South

g.     More overseas trade despite Jefferson and the War of 1812

h.     More prosperity and the emergence of a middle class

i.      Change in gender roles redefined public and private spheres (Cult of D.)

j.      Cotton ‘Gin and Cotton in the South, Single crop economy, overseas trade

7.     War of 1812

a.     Impressment, International Trade, Freedom of the Seas, Indian Aggression

b.     Baltimore, Washington DC, and New Orleans

c.     Treaty of Ghent

d.     Debt and the Panic of 1819 (land)

8.     Nationalism at Home and Abroad

a.     Louisiana Purchase, trade, XYZ Affair, Tripolitan War

b.     McCullough v. Maryland

c.     Dartmouth v. Woodward

d.     Gibbons v. Ogden

e.     Monroe Doctrine: 4 points (emergence of Parent Mercantilism)

f.      Emergence of the Great Triumvirate: Clay, Calhoun, Webster

9.     Populism and Political Shift to the West

a.     Andrew Jackson

                                               i.     Spoils System

                                             ii.     Inaugural Brawl

                                           iii.     Veto of the National Bank

                                            iv.     King Andrew I

                                             v.     Indian Removal Act

                                            vi.     Trail of Tears (and land speculation)

b.     Tariff of 1828, SC Expo and Protest

c.     SC Nullification and Force Bill

d.     Jackson Pays the National Debt, Land Speculation and the Panic of 1837