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Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian Era
The Rise of Cultural Nationalism
a. Pattern of Education
i. Importance of Virtuous Citizenry
ii. Private Schools
iii. Educational Opportunities for Women
iv. Indian Education
v. Higher Education
b. Medicine and Science
i. Med-Schools
ii. Benjamin Rush
iii. Decline of Midwifery – why?
c. Cultural Aspirations in the New Nation
i. Establishment of National Culture
ii. Noah Webster
iii. Washington Irving
d. Religious Skepticism
i. Revolutionary Impact
ii. Deism
iii. Unitarianism
e. The Second Great Awakening
i. Background
ii. Cane Ridge
iii. Methodists
iv. Message of the Great Awakening
v. African Americans and the Revivals
vi. Indians and the Second Great Awakening
vii. Freethinkers
Stirrings of Nationalism
a. Technology in America
i. England’s monopoly on technology
ii. Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
1. Slave impact!
iii. Cotton Gin’s Impact on North
b. Transportation Innovations
i. Rapid Growth of American Shipping
ii. Robert Fulton’s Steamboat
iii. Turnpikes
c. The Rising Cities
i. Stats
ii. Urban Life
Jefferson The President
a. The Federal City and the “People’s President”
i. The New Capital City
ii. Jefferson’s view of America
iii. Jefferson’s politics
b. Dollars and Ships
i. Limiting the Federal Government
ii. Challenging the Barbary Pirates
c. Conflict with the Courts
i. John Marshall
ii. Judicial Review
iii. Marbury v. Madison  HUGE
iv. Impeachment of Samuel Chase
Doubling the National Domain
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Jefferson and Napoleon
i. Toussaint L’Ouverture
ii. Napoleon’s Offer
b. The Louisiana Purchase
i. Jefferson’s Quandary
c. Lewis and Clark
i. Zebulon Pike
d. The Burr Conspiracy
i. Essex Junto
ii. Hamilton and Burr
Expansion and War
a. The Napoleonic Wars
b. Conflict of the Seas
i. America’s Predicament
c. Impressment
i. Chesapeake-Leopard Incident
d. “Peaceable Coercion”
i. The Embargo
ii. Non-Intercourse Act
e. The “Indian Problem” and the British
i. William Henry Harrison
ii. Jefferson’s Offer
f. Tecumseh and the Prophet
i. The Prophets Message
ii. Tecumseh’s Strategy
iii. Battle of Tippecanoe
g. Florida and War Fever
i. War Hawks
The War of 1812
a. Battles with the Tribes
i. Early defeats
ii. Put-In Bay
b. Battles with the British
i. The British Invasion
ii. Battle of New Orleans
c. The Revolt of New England
i. Hartford Convention
ii. Political Connotations and King caucus
d. The Peace Settlement
i. Treaty of Ghent
ii. Rush-Bagot Agreement
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