Developing the Democratic Nation: The Jeffersonian Era and the New Nationalism

UNIT III: APUSH

(2 weeks)

Essential Questions (EQ)

How do figures of power rise and fall?

Is nationalism vital for a nationπs growth?

Do wars resolve or deepen conflicts?

Reading Assignments

Date --reading completed

American History Chapter 7

American History, Chapter 8

Free Response (Discussion) Questions

Do both of the following:

1. Jeffersonπs moderation and compromises turned the revolution of 1800 into a relatively smooth transition of party control from Federalists to Republican. Assess the validity of this statement. --outline

2. Explain why the Federalists so strongly opposed the War of 1812 and how their opposition affected the war effort and their own party. --outline

Document Based Question (DBQ) (This is an essay.)

Details and documents forthcoming.

Major Assignments/Projects and Assessment (There will also be minor homework assignments and quizzes that are not mentioned on this sheet.)

Date to be completed

________________ Take Home DBQ (essay)

________________ Unit 3 Test

Study terms for American History

Identify/Define and state the historical significance of (basically know the general information about each of the following):

Chapter 7

Schooling in early 19^th c America and the republican ideal of virtuous citizen

Education for women? Literacy rates? ≥republican mother≤

≥noble savages≤

State of higher ed.

State of medicine and science

Decline of midwifery

Noah Webster

What obstacles did ≥Americans who aspired to create a more elevated national literary life≤ face?

Washington Irving

What sort of works by American authors were most influential? Why?

How did the revolution affect traditional forms of religious practice? What challenges to religious traditionalism arose during this period? What evidence is there weaknesses in organized religion?

deism

Unitarianism and universalism

What caused the Second Great Awakening? When was it?

Which denominations were so successful and why?

≥camp meetings≤

Peter Cartwright

≥Whispering Campaigns≤

What was the message of the Great Awakening? Impact?

What role did women play?

African Americans and second great awakening

Great awakening and free thinkers

Industrial Revolution. What were its origins?

Whitneyπs cotton gin; impact on south and north

Whitneyπs advances in gun production (interchangeable parts)

What effect did Americaπs transportation system have on industrialization?

What caused the rapid growth in American shipping?

Steam boat

Turnpike Era (which came first, steam boat or turnpike?)

1800 census; where people lived

District of Columbia

Jeffersonπs democratic simplicity in DC

Jefferson the Politician

Election of 1804

How did Jefferson trim down or limit the federal government

Why did Jefferson reduce the military? Was he a pacifist?

Barbary pirates and the pasha of Tripoli; why did Jefferson go to war?

What were the roots of jeffersonπs conflict with the federal court system, and how did the case of Marybury v. Madison fit into the story?

Mary v. Madison

John Marshall

What method did Jefferson employ to bring the judiciary under Republican control, and what were the results?

Impeachment of Samuel Chase

How did Napoleon get Louisiana?

Tousasaint LπOuverture

Describe Jeffersonπs transforming view of the French, from before their acquisition of Louisiana to after.

Importance of new Orleans

Who cared most about access to New Orleans? How was Jefferson caught in a bind?

How did Jefferson get Louisiana? Terms?

What was Jeffersonπs quandary in accepting the Louisiana purchase? How did he solve it? How was this an example of loose constructionism?

Louis and clark; sacajawea

Zebulon pike

Why did the federalists oppose the Louisiana purchase? Read about this in the Pageant to find what arguments they employed to reject it. What was their plan once it went through?

Essex Junto

Hamilton-Burr duel

Burr conspiracy

How/why was the US pulled into the Napoleonic Wars?

Impressments and the Chesapeake-Leopard Incident. Jeffersonπs response?

Describe the embargo act of 1807; which part of the country opposed it most? Why? Check the Pageant to see the Federalist arguments against.

How did the Embargo affect the election of 1808,and what was the response of the new president to diplomatic problems that the Embargo had addressed?

Non-Intercourse act

Maconπs Bill No. 2

Napoleonπs response?

How did conditions in the West heighten the tension between the US and Britain?

William Henry Harrison

Jeffersonπs offer to the Native Americans

Tenskwatawa

Tecumseh; his plan

Battle of Tippecanoe

Why did Americans blame the Brits for the Indian uprisings along the frontier? How did they propose to solve the British-Indian problem?

Why did Americans want Florida? What did they do before 1812?

Election of 1810 and the War Hawks

Why did Madison declare war?

What were the successes at the beginning of the war? The failures?

Oliver Hazard Perry

Put-In-Bay; Battle of the Thames; Battle of Horseshoe Bend

British invasion of 1814? Why did they wait to invade? What happened?

Key and the Star Spangled Banner

Battle of Plattsburgh

Battle of New Orleans

Why did New England (and the Federalists) oppose the war of 1812? Prior to 1814, whatd id New England states do hinder the war effort?

Hartord Convention

Treaty of Ghentãterms, reasons each side settled for what it did.

Rush-Bagot Agreement 1817

Overall effect of war on Indians

Chapter Eight: Varieties of American Nationalism

What confusion did state banks cause after the war of 1812?

Second Bank of the United States

What caused the growth of the textile industry?

Francis cabot Lowell and the Boston manf. Company

≥infant industries≤

Tariff of 1816; who supported it? Who opposed it?

Government funded roads. What was the controversy? (see the Pageant for an explanation of this.)

Cumberland Road

How did steamboats stimulate the agricultural economies of the West and South?

What was Calhounπs ≥internal improvements bill≤? How can it be considered a ≥nationalist≤ program? What happened to it? Why?

Move from weak to strong nationalism. Why?

Where did white Americans live in 1820

What were the reasons for Western Expansion after the war of 1812?

≥factor≤ system

Frontier life. Was it as solitary as myth suggested?

Mobility of frontier people

What drove western expansion in the south?

Large southern planters who moved west

Mountain men

Virginia dynasty

Election of 1816

James Monroe

Why were the leaders of New England disturbed by the election of Monroe, and what did he do the calm these fears?

Election of 1820

Monroeπs goodwill tour and the Era of Good Feelings

The Seminole Ware and JQAπs response

Adams-Onis Treaty (aka the Florida Purchase Treaty)

What were the causes of the Panic of 1819?

Issues involved in debate over Missouriπs admission into the union

Tallmadge Amendment

Missouri Compromise

John Marshall

Fletcher v. Peck, 1810

Dartmouth College v. Woodward 1819

Cohens v. Virginia 1821

McCulloch v. Maryland 1819 (how is this a prime example of loose constructionism?)

Gibbons v. Ogden 1824

How were the above Marshall decisions highly nationalistic decisions?

Johnson V. McIntosh 1823

Worcester v. Georgia 1832

How did Marshallπs decisions affect the status of Indian tribes

Monroe Doctrine: Itπs importance

Crucial difference between party schisms of the first and second party systems

Election of 1820

Caucuses and their demise

Henry Clay

Clayπs American System

Andrew Jackson

Election of 1824 and ≥corrupt bargain≤

JQ Adamπs presidency (see the Pageant for a better explanation)

Tariff of Abominations (definitely see the Pageant for a better explanation)

The new (second ) two party system by 1828. what were the two sides? Their interests?

Election of 1828