An Era of Nationalism

Focus Question
• How did domestic and foreign policy reflect the nationalism of the times?
• Protective Tariffs
• Supreme Court decisions that strengthened the national government
• Acquiring Florida
• Monroe Doctrine
• Missouri Compromise

NOTE TAKING
Reading Skill: Understand Effects

Nationalism Shapes Domestic
Policy
• Henry Clay
• American System
• Protective tariff
• Build roads and canals to tie the different regions into a harmonious whole
• Reestablish a Bank of US

Nationalism Shapes Domestic
Policies
• James Monroe, the nation's fifth president, embarked on a goodwill tour through the North
• A renewal of national unity, called the times the " Era of Good
Feelings ."
• It was a time of few factional disputes

Nationalism Shapes Domestic
Policies
• The spirit of nationalism was apparent in a series of landmark Supreme Court decisions
• Established national supremacy over the states
• Extended the nation's boundaries and protected its shipping and commerce

Marshall and the Supreme
Court
• Supreme Court
• Headed by Chief Justice
John Marshall
• Made several key decisions that strengthened the federal government
• More than the framers, he molded the development of the Const.

Marshall and the Supreme
Court
• The “necessary and proper”, “elastic” clause
•
Does a state have the power to tax a branch of the Bank of the United
States?
– First tested in McCulloch v.
Maryland
• Bank of the US was subject to a tax by the state of
Maryland
• The bank manager
(McCulloch) refused to pay
• Maryland argued that the
Constitution doesn’t mention banks and therefore banks are not allowed to be created by Congress

Marshall and the Supreme
Court
• “The power to tax involves the power to destroy,"
• States do not have the right to exert an independent check on the authority of the federal government

Marshall and the Supreme
Court
• Gibbons v. Ogden
• Commerce Clause
• Overturned a New
York law that had awarded a monopoly over steamboat traffic on the Hudson River
• Freed the transportation system from restraints by the states

Nationalism Influences Foreign
Affairs
• In an effort to strengthen the US position in foreign policy Pres announces the
Monroe Doctrine
• The US would not become involved in the internal affairs of
European countries

Nationalism Influences Foreign
Affairs
• The US would not permit any further colonization of the
Western Hemisphere
• Top Ten most important Foreign
Policy Decisions!

Nationalism Influences Foreign
Affairs
• Those who have used the principle:
– 1836 manifest destiny
(Pres Polk)
Texas/West
– 1842 Hawaii
– 1900’s Roosevelt
Corollary
– 1962 Kennedy Cuban
Missile Crisis
– 1980 Reagan
Salvaldor & Grenada

Nationalism Influences Foreign
Affairs
• Adam-Onis Treaty
• Ended Spanish claims to the vast Pacific
Coast Territory and Great Britain agreed to share the territory
• Showed the impact of nationalism on foreign policy

Daily Quiz

The Monroe Doctrine stated that
• Europe must not try to control any nation in the Western Hemisphere

The Supreme Court under
Chief Justice Marshall made several decisions that
• strengthened the federal government
• Elastic Clause McCulloch v Maryland
• Commerce Clause Gibbons vs. Ogden

Nation Compromises Over
Slavery

Missouri Compromise
• 1819, Congress debated about the admission of Missouri to the United States
• The issues of the debate was slavery
• Northwest Ordinance of 1787 established no state NW of Ohio R. could be a slave state

Missouri Compromise
• Henry Clay proposed a compromise
1. Slavery would not be restricted in Missouri,
Maine will be admitted as a free state – keeps the balance of states 12 - 12
2. Territories north of 36 30N latitude in
Louisiana Purchase would be closed to slavery

Missouri Compromise
• The crisis over the Missouri Compromise exposed the growing sectionalism over the issue of slavery

Daily Quiz

According to the Missouri
Compromise, slavery would be allowed
• in Missouri, but Maine would be admitted as a free state

Northern states objected to admitting Missouri as a slave state because
• it would increase the power of the southern states in the Senate

The crisis over the Missouri
Compromise exposed
• Growing sectionalism over the issue of slavery

Classroom Activity
Closure:
Inner Outer Circle
• Monroe Doctrine & Missouri Compromise
Political Cartoon analysis: