BY BERNADETTE LIM PERIOD 5
Chapter 9:
Nation Building and Nationalism
1813-1825
Sections: Expansion Migration, a Revolution in Transportation,
Emergence of a Market Economy, the Politics of Nation Building after
the War of 1812, Conclusion: The End of the Era of Good Feeling
President James Monroe(5th)
 April 28, 1758, Westmoreland County, Virginia
 Died in July 4, 1831, New York City, New York
 Presidency: 1817–1825 Democratic- Republican
 “Virginia Dynasty”
 Other Occupations:
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lawyer
soldier
diplomat
governor
senator
cabinet official
 Remembered for the “Era of Good Feeling”
John Marshall
 Studied law in the College of William and Mary.
 Born September 24, 1755 in Germantown, Virginia
 Died in July 6, 1835
 January 27, 1801 he became Chief of Justice (for 34 years )
 Note: 1789 was offered to be in the United States Supreme Court but refused
 Other Jobs:
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Virginia House of Delegates from 1782 to1795
1797 he was in a diplomatic mission in France
1799 he was in the House of Representatives
1800 Secretary of State under President John Adams
John Quincy Adams (6th)
 Born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1767
 1848 Died of Stroke in the Speaker House
 One of America’s greatest Secretaries of State
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Helped with arrangements of events like England in the country of Oregon. (RushBagot)
First President to be a son of a President
Obtaining from Spain the cession of the Florida (East part)
Formulating with the President the Monroe Doctrine
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After graduating from Harvard College, he became a lawyer
Age 26 he was appointed Minister to the Netherlands
Promoted to the Berlin Legation
1802 elected to the United States Senate
Six years later President Madison appointed him Minister to Russia
General Andrew Jackson (7th)
 Born in a backwoods settlement in the Carolinas in 1767
 “Old Hickory" retired to the Hermitage, where he died in June 1845
 His Occupations:
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Signed up for the continental army at nine years old
A courier at the age of thirteen
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A messenger who transports goods or documents, in particular
Decided to teach in school, changed to law later
 Military career began in the Revolution
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1802 as a major general for Tennessee
Declared a war hero after the 1812 war and was given the name
Lafayette
(In the opening of the chapter An extra)
 Born in 1757
 Died on May 20, 1834 at the age of 76
 A noble
 Wanted to help the “romantic” American, glorious and exciting cause.
(their independence)
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Disapproved by the King and his family
Own voyage with Baron Johan De Kalb and Silas Deane
 Landed in South Carolina
 Commissioned to be a Major General on July 31st
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Befriended Washington
 He Revisits America in 1824
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found the nation to peaceful and prosperous
After The War of 1812
 Rush-Bagot Agreement
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Was made in 1817, and limited both U.S. and British Naval Forces in Great Lakes and Lake
Champlain.
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1799-1830 Special acts were presented that granted squatters specific areas the right to
purchase.
This was to see if people would actual improve the land that they bought. Instead of being sold
or bought out to be given to people who would actually cultivate the land.
 Expanding towards the Spanish holdings:
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Quincy Adams needed to find the window of opportunity to gain Florida
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It was provided by General Andrew Jackson in 1816
Operation became well known as the First Seminole War.
To end conflict they needed to agree to comply with the Adams-Onis Treaty
 Adams-Onis Treaty:
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February 22, 1819 was due to an opening by General Andrew Jackson, and created by
Quincy Adams, to gain eastern Florida.
After The War of 1812 (Cont.)
 Natives:
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Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole became the “Five Civilized
Tribes” in 1815
began to adapt the surrounding white cultures (from government to slavery)
Cherokee being the largest of the group and Seminoles were the smallest of the five
Cherokee developed even more until they were able to reach an American-style
“civilization”
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Creating their own writing system and adapted to trading, slavery, and their own central
government
The other two tribes resisted instead (Seminoles)
In the end majority of the time, they were still labeled as savages, civilized or not
Andrew Jackson as the “Indian fighter”
Seminoles
Cherokee
Early Industrialism
 Revolution in Transport:
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1815 flat boats were hauling wheat, flour and salt pork for 2000 miles, from Pittsburgh
to New Orleans
First great federal transportation project was the National Road from Cumberland,
Maryland to Potomac to Wheeling, Virginia and to the Ohio, which was from 1811 to
1818
 Canal Boom:
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System of canals to be created for the growing urban states
Great Lake to flow into the Atlantic at the time for them was between Albany and
Buffalo, it was approved in 1817
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Continued in 1818 when De Witt Clinton persuaded New York Legislature to continue by
issuing bonds
364 miles long, 40 feet wide and 4 ft deep the Eerie Canal was complete
From 1830-40 other places wanted to extend the canal systems like Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Illinois.
However, the boom ended because most of the waterways were unprofitable.
Early Industrialism (Cont.)
 Market Economy:
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Canals did help with shipping of goods
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Technology improvements:
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Cheaper
Faster
Surplus and mass production
Steel or iron plows
Grain cradle was more useful than a scythe was for harvest
New crops, grasses and livestock were introduced
Staple crops like wheat remained in the North
Westward has problems like diseases in the crops, pests and soil depletion become a
problem and continue to grow as a problem in older regions
As regions specialized in crops
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new market systems emerge
use of credit
Crucial element in this system
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It was need when merchants reached their ultimate destination like Liverpool or New York. It
was also to encourage growth in money and banking.
Early Industrialism (Cont.)
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Stimulate Economy: gold and silver was available to only a few
Bank notes were now issued to the public
Barely with the first Bank of
the United States in 1811 to
organize the money and
credit
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Attempt to create the
second Bank of the United
States in 1816 to check on
state banks by forcing them
to resume specie payments
Over extension of credit
lead to the panic of 1819. In
other words a financial
panic that led to a
depression.
People began to feel unsure about this method of economy
 1815, most ideas of manufacturing goods were in a household.
 Southern New England the idea was changed towards mills.
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Textiles and clothes
Originally mainly by the women at home and the higher quality version of textiles and clothes
would be by artisans.
In this age the artisans mainly became entrepreneurs and journeymen became wage earners.
Lowell, Massachusetts became a great place for early American industry. Factory
Production changed the course of capitalist activity in the regions.
Early Industrialism (Cont.)
 Cities
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In the 1800s the nation was more of a rural state.
Then as Canals, industry, factories, and banks formed, soon the city life-style spread
like wildfire with the expansion.
Canals mainly helped out through transport of people.
 Era of Good Feeling
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People’s sense of nationalism was beginning to take place in the United States.
After the War of 1812, the Federalists were no longer a challenge in the political status,
it was mainly the Republicans.
1816 Monroe would be the successor of Madison.
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His challenge was to keep peace in the country.
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The Missouri Compromise deals with Missouri being a slave state and Maine being a free state
in February 1820.
Early Industrialism (Cont.)
 Monroe Doctrine:
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December 3, 1823
It prevents any further colonization of European powers in the Americas.
In Return the U.S. will not part take in internal European affairs.
 So America had a chance to prosper but, with caution to remember that Europe
still has no true acknowledgement of America .
Court Cases
 John Marshall was the Chief of Justice for All three of these cases.
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Dartmouth College v. Woodward:
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McCulloch v. Maryland:
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In 1819, the court was to decide if Hampshire legislature had right to convert Dartmouth from private
to state university.
The ruling was that privately own businesses are protected, but anything related to the state was of
their own choosing.
In 1819 Maryland levied a tax on Baltimore branch Bank.
The issue here was the establishment of a bank and if a state had the right to tax.
In the end some powers were implied but overall the government is the one to oversee these issues.
Gibbons v. Ogden:
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The control of interstate commerce was rightfully for the congress however the right to protect private
matters was important as well.
It also shows Marshall’s decision making, and made the federal government broaden its powers at the
expense of the states.
This would lead to a nationwide capitalist country.
Thanks!!
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Textbook:
America Past and Present: AP Edition (9th) By Divine, Breen, Fredrickson, Williams, Gross and Brands.
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Websites:
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http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/texts/drtmouth.htm
http://teachers.dadeschools.net/lmitat/American%20Presidents.pdf
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/jamesmonroe
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/johnquincyadams
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/andrewjackson
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