Unit Two 1783-1861
Chapter 7-13
I.
Securing the Republic (Chapter 8)
A. Politics in an age of passion
1. Hamilton’s Program
2. Emergence of an opposition
3. The Jefferson Hamilton bargain
4. The Impact of the French Revolution
5. Political Parties
6. The Whiskey Rebellion
7. The Republican Party
8. An expanding public sphere
9. The democratic-republican societies
10. The rights of women
11. Women and the Republic
B. The Adams Presidency
1. The Election of 1796
2. The Reign of Witches
3. The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
4. The Revolution of 1800
5. Slavery and Politics
6. The Haitian Revolution
7. Gabriel’s Rebellion
C. Jefferson in Power
1. Judicial Review
2. The Louisiana Purchase
3. Lewis and Clark
4. Incorporating Louisiana
5. The Barbary Wars
6. The Embargo
7. Madison and the Pressure for War
D. The “Second War of Independence”
1. The Indian Response
2. Tecumseh’ Vision
3. The War of 1812
4. The War’s aftermath
5. The end of the federalist party
II.
Chapter 9 The Market Revolution
A. The New Economy
1. Roads and Steamboats
2. The Erie Canal
3. Railroads and the Telegraph
4. The Rise of the West
5. The Cotton Kingdom
6. The Unfree Westward Movement
B. Market Society
1. Commercial Farmers
2. The Growth of Cities
3. The Factory System
4. The Industrial Worker
5. The “Mill Girls”
6. The Growth of Immigration
7. Irish and German Newcomers
8. The Rise of Nativism
9. The Transformation of Law
C. The Free Individual
1. The West and Freedom
2. The Transcendentalists
3. Individualism
4. The 2nd Great Awakening
5. The Awakening’s Impact
6. Emergence of Mormonism
D. The Limits of Prosperity
1.
Liberty and Prosperity
2. Race and Opportunity
3. The Cult of Domesticity
4. Women and Work
5. The Early Labor Movement
6. The “Liberty of Living”
IV. Democracy in America 1815-1840
A. The Triumph of Democracy
1. Property and Democracy
2. The Dorr War
3. Tocqueville on Democracy
4. The Information Revolution
5. The Limits of Democracy
6. A Racial Democracy
7. Race and Class
B. Nationalism and Its Discontents
1. The American System
2. Banks and Money
3. Panic of 1819
4. Politics of the Panic
5. The Missouri Controversy
6. The Slavery Question
C. Nation, Section, and Party
1. The US and the Latin American Wars for Independence
2. The Monroe Doctrine
3. The Election of 1824
4. The Nationalism of John Quincy Adams
5. “Liberty is Power”
6. Martin Van Buren and the Democratic Party
7. The Election of 1828
D. The Age of Jackson
1. The Party System
2. Democrats and Whigs
3. Public and Private Freedom
4. Politics and Morality
5. South Carolina and Nullification
6. Calhoun’s Political Theory
7. The Nullification Crisis
8. Indian Removal
9. The Supreme Court and the Indians
E. The Bank War and After
1. Biddle’s Bank
2. Pet Banks and the Economy
3. The Panic of 1837
4. Van Buren in Office
5. The Election of 1840
6. His Accidency
V. The Peculiar Institution
A. The Old South
1. Cotton is King
2. The Second Middle Passage
3. Slavery and the Nation
4. The Southern Economy
5. Plain Folk of the Old South
6. The Planter Class
7. The Paternalist Ethos
8. The Code of Honor
9. The Proslavery Argument
10. Abolition in the Americas
11. Slavery and Liberty
12. Slavery and Civilization
B. Life Under Slavery
1. Slaves and the Law
2. Conditions of Slave Life
3. Free Blacks in the Old South
4. The Upper and Lower South
5. Slave Labor
6. Gang Labor and Task Labor
7. Slavery in the Cities
8. Maintaining Order
C. Slave Culture
1. The Slave Family
2. Threat of Sale
3. Gender Roles Among Slaves
4. Slave Religion
5. Gospel of Freedom
6. The Desire for Liberty
D. Resistance to Slavery
1. Forms of Resistance
2. Fugitive Slaves
3. The Amistad
4. Slave Revolts
5. Nat Turner’s Rebellion
a. The South’s Response
VI. An Age of Reform (Chapter 12)
A. The Reform Impulse
1. Utopian Communities
2. The Shakers
3. Oneida
4. Worldly Communities
5. The Owenites
6. Religion and Reform
7. The Temperance Movement
8. Critics of Reform
9. Reformers and Freedom
10. The Invention of the Asylum
11. The Common School
B. The Crusade Against Slavery
1. Colonization
2. Blacks and Colonization
3. Militant Abolitionism
4. The Emergence of Garrison
5. Spreading the Abolitionist Message
6. Slavery and Moral Suasion
7. Abolitionists and the idea of Freedom
8. A New Vision of America
C. Black and White Abolition
1. Black Abolitionists
2. Abolitionism and Race
3. Slavery and American Freedom
4. Gentlemen of Property and Standing
5. Slavery and Civil Liberties
D. The Origins of Feminism
1. The Rise of the Public Woman
2. Women and Free Speech
3. Women’s Rights
4. Feminism and Freedom
5. Women and Work
6. The Slavery of Sex
7. Social Freedom
8. The Abolitionist Schism
VII. A House Divided 1840-1860 (chapter 13)
A. Fruits of Manifest Destiny
1. Continental Expansion
2. The Mexican Frontier: New Mexico and California
3. The Texas Revolt
4. The Election of 1844
5. The Road to War
6. The War and Its Critics
7. Combat in Mexico
8. Race and Manifest Destiny
9. Redefining Race
10. Gold-rush California
11. California and the Boundaries of Freedom
12. The Other Gold Rush
13. Opening Japan
B. A Dose of Arsenic
1. The Wilmot Proviso
2. The Free Soil Appeal
3. Crisis and Compromise
4. The Great Debate
5. The Fugitive Slave Issue
6. Douglas and Popular Sovereignty
C. The Rise of the Republican Party
1. The Northern Economy
2. The Rise and Fall of the Know – Nothings
3. The Free Labor Movement
4. Bleeding Kansas and the Election of 1856
D. The Emergence of Lincoln
1. The Dred Scott Decision
2. The Decision’s Aftermath
3. Lincoln and Slavery
4. The Lincoln Douglas Campaign
6. John Brown at Harper’s Ferry
7. The Rise of Southern Nationalism
8. The Democratic Split
9. The Nomination of Lincoln
10. The Election of 1860
E. The Impending Crisis
1. The Secession Movement
2. The Secession Crisis
3. And the War Came……