Outline for Week 9 (week of Mon. 19 November 2007)
Analysis Paper #2 due today—leave at front desk by end of class
“Peaceful” Revolution: Authoritarian Visions and Popular Ideals
1. Authoritarian and Democratic variants of republicanism:
a. Sectional differences in the Federalist Era (1790-1800)
b. Challenges of the French & Haitian Revolutions (1789-1803)
c. Jeffersonian expansionism and republicanism
d. transitions to Jacksonian Democracy and nationalist expansionism
2. Rebellion and Resistance in an era of Imperial Expansion:
a. Gabriel Prosser and the rebellion of 1800
b. Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa, ca 1810-1815
c. Denmark Vesey and the rebellion of 1822
d. David Walker’s Appeal of 1829
e. Nathaniel Turner and the rebellion of 1830
3. Remaking Nationalism after the War of 1812
Before Next Meeting (Wednesday)
• Be prepared to discuss voices from
“Brotherly Love” website (located under
pbs link on Stono Rebellion Critical
Learning Module)
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/historymodules/C
TM/typindex.htm
Direct link:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3narr5.html
“Republicanism” and
“Benevolence”
1. “Noble Savage” ideal
vs Indian Removal and
Land Acquisition
2. Farmer (Yeoman)
Citizenry ideal
vs slavery expansionism
3. Republican Mothers (see
picture, p. 263)
4. Second Great Awakening
(see Francis Trollope, p.
279)
Constitutional America & the Nationalist Movement, 1790-1830
1. rural/urban differences and the problem of debt
2. The transition from agrarian to agricultural economy
a. people on the land (community) or
b. value from the land (industry)
3. Washington-Hamilton coalition & Federalist power, 1789-1800
a. priorities of Property Rights
b. Industrial/Planter/Merchant elite
c. Strongest on eastern seaboard and in urban centers
4. Jeffersonian Faction & Democratic-Republican power, 18001830
a. Natural Law and Revolutionary Rhetoric (Human Rights )
b. Strongest in western districts & more rural districts
c. Conflicting interests of slaveholders, slaves, freeholders
Expanding
Territorial claims,
1782-1802
•How does territorial
expansion affect
ideals of
republicanism?
•How does territorial
expansionism affect
race relations?
•How does territorial
expansion affect
political organizing?
The Changing Electoral Landscape in Constitutional America:
The Rise of White Male Suffrage, 1800-1830
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/historymodules/modules/mod0
9/imap.htm
The impact of the French and Haitian Revolutions, 1789-1803
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3narr5.html
Expansion of Slavery under the Constitution of 1789: Fugitive
Slave Laws of United States, 1790-1860
How did the Slave Rebellions affect U.S. Territorial Expansion?
Napoleon’s North
American plans
vs Touissant
L’Ouverture’s vision
Experience of Haitian
Revolution
Spanish cession of
Louisianna (seeking
buffer vs U.S.)
French offer to sell
Louisianna
Problem with terms of
Spanish cession of
sovereignty to France
From the French Revolution to Slave
Resistance and Rebellion, 1789-1830
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Nathaniel Turner, 1830
Toussaint L’Ouverture, 1803
How did the Haitian Revolution affect U.S. Indian Policy?
How did the size of
U.S. territorial
holdings affect the
ability to govern?
•Peacetime concerns?
•Wartime concerns?
•Perceptions of
weakness/strengths?
How did
territorial
expansion affect
religious
expression in the
United States?
•What is the
significance of
Kentucky in this
map?
•How do paths of
settlement
compare with
paths of
revivalism?
•What Political
implications?
How did the expansion of taxpayer qualifications (vs. property
qualifications) compare with religious revivalism?
How did the expansion of
suffrage affect Jeffersonian
Republicanism?
•How does the party in
power describe itself, 18001830?
•How does the opposition
describe itself, 1800-1830?
•How does the Democratic
Republicanism compare with
Jeffersonian Republicanism?
•What happened to the
Federalists after 1815?
Tecumseh, ca
1810
Western
“causes” of the
war?
Maritime (New
England)
concerns?
Paul Cuffee,
ca 1810
What were the most significant results of the War of 1812? Outcome?
Primary Source analysis:
1. Henretta voices/documents:
a. Peter Porcupine (vs. pro-French Americans, p. 223)
b. Alexis De Toqueville (p. 254)
c. Republican Motherhood (image, p. 263)
d. Frances Trollope (re: Camp Meeting, p. 279)
e. Baptist Ceremony (p. 280)
2. Critical Thinking Module: access the “Conspiracies and Rebellion”
link through the “Stono Rebellion” Module:
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/historymodules/CTM/typindex.htm
Africans in America website: Conspiracies and rebellion
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3narr5.html
Before Next Meeting (Wednesday)
•
Be prepared to discuss voices from “Brotherly Love”
website (located under pbs link on Stono Rebellion
Critical Learning Module)
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/historymodules/CTM/typindex.htm
Direct link:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3narr5.html
Landscapes of the
Great Awakening