Chapter 7-15
Historical Theme:
Forging an American Identity, 1781-1860
Historical Content:
Ch 7
1. The Newburgh
Conspiracy
2. Land ordinance of 1785
3. Northwest ordinance of
1787
4. The Wealth of Nations,
1776
5. Articles of Confederation
Problems
6. Mount Vernon
Conference
7. Annapolis Convention
8. Shays’ Rebellion
9. Constitutional
Convention
10. Virginia Plan
11. New Jersey Plan
12. Great Compromise
13. 3/5ths Compromise
14. Separation of Powers
15. Checks and Balances
16. Anti-Federalists
17. Federalist Papers
18. Charles Beard An
Economic Interpretation
of the Constitution
19. Constitutional
Ratification
20. Bill of Rights Pledge
Ch 8
Ch 9
1. Bill of Rights
1. Jeffersonian Simplicity
2. 1790 Census
2. Jeffersonian Conciliation
3. Hamilton’s Report on Credit and
3. No Bank Repeal
Manufacturing
4. Repealed Excise Tax
a. Par Value
5. Tariffs and Western Land
b. Capitalist Leaning
Sale Revenue Base
4. National Bank Debate
6. 1808 slave Non5. Strict Construction
importation Act
6. Broad/Loose Construction
7. Barbary Pirates
7. Protective Tariff
8. Louisiana Purchase
8. The Republican Alternative
Treaty
a. Jeffersonian Democracy
9. Corps of Discovery
9. Proclamation of Neutrality
10. Essex Junto
10. Citizen Genet Affair
11. Hamilton-Burr Duel
11. Jay’s Treaty
12. Burr Conspiracy
12. Battle of Fallen timbers
13. Napoleonic Wars
13. Treaty of Grenville
14. Impressment Policy
14. Whiskey Rebellion
15. Stop-Search-Seizure
15. Pinckney’s Treaty
Policy
16. 1796 Land Act
16. Orders in Council
17. 1904 Land Act
17. Milan Decree
18. Warriors Path/Wilderness Trail
18. Chesapeake-Leopard
19. Cumberland Gap
Affair
20. Washington’s Farewell Address
19. Embargo Act
21. 1796 Election
20. Peaceable Coercion
22. XYZ Affair
Policy
23. Quasi War
21. Non-intercourse Act
24. 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts
22. Macon’s Bill Number 2
25. Convention of 1800
23. War of 1812
a. End of Franco-American
24. War Hawks
Alliance
25. Tecumseh
26. VA and KY Resolutions
26. Battle of Tippecanoe
27. Election of 1800
27. Burning WA D.C.
28. Battle of New Orleans
29. Treaty of Ghent
30. Hartford Convention
Ch 10
A. Economic Nationalism
1. Second National Bank
2. 1816 Protective Tariff
3. Internal Improvements
4. National/Cumberland Road
5. Era of Good Feelings
6. Virginian Dynasty
7. Rush-Baggot Treaty
8. Convention of 1818
9. Adams-Onis Treaty
a. (Transcontinental Treaty)
10. Panic of 1819
11. Missouri Compromise
12. Tallmadge Resolution
13. Clay’s American System
B. Judicial Nationalism
1. Marbury v. Madison
2. Fletcher v. Peck
3. Cohens v. Virginia
4. Dartmouth College v. Woodward
5. McCulluch v. Maryland
6. Gibbons v. Ogden
7. Charles River Bridge Case
C. Nationalist Diplomacy
1. The Monroe Doctrine
D. One-Party Politics
1. Corrupt Bargain
2. Election of 1828
i. Common Man Campaign
ii. “Log-Cabin and Hard
Cider”
Ch 11
1. Nullification Crisis
2. 1828 Tariff
3. South Carolina Exposition
and Protest
4. Nullification Doctrine
5. Webster-Hayne Debate
6. State Compact Theory
7. Unionist Theory
8. South Carolina Nullification
Ordinance
9. Compromise Tariff of 1833
10. Force Bill
11. 1830 Indian Removal Act
12. Five Civilized Tribes
13. Black Hawk War
14. Seminoles War
15. Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia,
1831
a. Domestic Dependent
nation
16. Worcester vs. Georgia, 1832
a. Distinct political
community
17. Trail of Tears
18. Bank of United States
Recharter War
19. Nicholas Biddle
20. 1832 Election
21. Distribution Act 1836
22. Specie Circular
23. 1837 Panic
24. Second American Political
Party System
25. Whig Party
26. 1836 Election
27. Independent Treasury
28. 1840 Election: Whig victory
29. Log-Cabin Hard Cider
Campaign
30. Tippecanoe and Tyler Too
Ch 12
1. Cotton Gin 1794
2. Cotton Kingdom
3. 1820 Land Law
a. Lowered price
$1.25/acre
b. Lowered minimum
plot of land to 80
acres
4. Relaxed Land Laws
5. Preemption Acts 1830 and
1841
a. Squatters Rights
b. 160 acres at
$1.25/acre
6. Graduation Act 1854
a. Decreased cost of
unsold lands to 12.5
cents/acre after 30
yrs
7. John Deer’s Steel Plow 1837
8. Cyrus McCormick’s Reaper
1831
9. National Road 1840s
10. Philadelphia-Lancaster
Turnpike 1794
11. Stagecoaches
12. Flatboats
13. Steamboat 1807
14. Erie Canal 1825
15. Railroad 1830s
16. Clipper Ship
17. Federal Govt Role in Internal
Improvements
18. Samuel Morse’s Telegraph
19. Machine-made Clothes
20. Singer’s Sewing Machine
1846
21. Goodyear and vulcanized
rubber 1844
22. Samuel Slater Textile Mill
23. Boston Manufacturing Co.
a. The Lowell System
b. Textile Process
Consolidated
c. Powered Machinery
spun and wove
cotton fiber into
textile product
24. Lowell Girls
25. Turned Out (Strike)
26. Growth of Cities
27. Drinking culture
28.
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30.
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33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
38.
Minstrel shows
Immigration
Irish Potato Blight
Irish Urban dwellers
German rural dwellers
Nativism
The American Party
a. Know-Nothing party
Local Trade Unions
Commonwealth vs. Hunt
1842
Elizabeth Blackwell
Jacksonian Inequality
Ch 13
1. Rational Religion
2. Calvinism
3. Deism
4. Unitarianism
5. Universalism
6. Second Great
Awakening
7. The Camp
Meeting
8. Burned over
District
a. Western
NY
9. Presbyterian Plan
of Union with
Congregationalist
s
10. Methodists
11. Baptists
12. Romanticism
13. Transcendentalis
m
14. Ralph Waldo
Emerson
15. Self-Reliance
1841
16. Henry David
Thoreau
17. Walden 1854
18. Civil
Disobedience
1849
19. Mormons
20. Hawthorne
21. Dickinson
22. Irving and
Cooper
23. Poe
24. Melville
25. Walt Whitman
26. Leaves of Grass
27. Popular Press
28. Public and Higher
Education
29. Popular
Education
30. Temperance
Movement
31. Prison/Asylum
Reform
Ch 14
1. John L. O’Sullivan 1841
“Manifest Destiny”
2. Webster-Ashburton Treaty
1842
3. 1837 Panic spurred westward
migration
4. Great Plains Indian Tribes
a. Horse culture
b. Buffalo dependent
c. Warrior Cult to
protect hunting
grounds
d. Sioux
e. Arapaho
f. Blackfoot
g. Cheyenne
5. Southwest Tribes
a. Peaceful Pueblo
Tribes (Hopi)
b. Warlike Hunter Tribes
i. Apache
ii. Navajo
6. Northwest Pacific Coast Tribes
a. Nisqually
b. Spokane
c. Yakima
d. Chinook
e. Nez Perce
f. Klamath
g. Abundant natural
resources
h. Temperate climate
7. Fort Laramie Treaty 1851
a. US pay natives for
damage wagon trains
caused to hunting
grounds
b. Natives pledge
i. stop
harassing
pioneer
ii. confine their
location
iii. allow fed forts
built
8. Santa Fe Trial
9. Oregon Trail
10. California Trail
11. Franciscan Missionaries
12. Presidios (forts)
Ch 15
1. Distinct Southern Cultural Traits
a. Peculiar institution
b. Few immigrants as they feared slave
competition
c. Orthodoxy to resist change
d. Culture of Honor
i. Code of Chivalry
ii. Theatrical Hospitality
iii. Rigid social hierarchy
iv. Local/family loyalty
v. Defense of the purity of women
e. Country Gentleman Ideal
f. Penchant for violence to solve issues
g. Agrarian republic mystique
2. Staple Crops
a. Tobacco
b. Sugar
c. Rice
d. Hemp
3. Cotton Kingdom
4. Prattville (Daniel Pratt)
a. Model of diversified industry
b. Does not spread
5. Industry does not take root
a. Blacks unsuited for factory work
b. Old South elite disdain for industrial
production
i. Aristocratic prestige derived from
owning land and slaves
6. Slaveocracy Social Hierarchy
a. Planters
b. Plantation Mistress
c. White Middle Class
i. Small independent farmer
ii. Skilled workers
d. Yeoman farmers
e. Poor Whites
f. Mulattoes
g. Freed Slaves
h. Domestic House Slaves
i. Skilled Slaves
j. Field Slaves
7. Black Slave Culture
a. oppressed existence
b. Celia an example of slave women as chattel
property
c. Slave Rebellions
i. Denmark Vesey 1822
ii. Nat Turner 1831
d. Slave Resistance
32. Women’s
Suffrage
33. 1848 Seneca Falls
Convention
34. Declaration of
Sentiments
35. Lucretia Mott
36. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
37. Utopian
Communities
38. John Humphrey
Noyes Oneida
Community
39. Complex
Marriage
40. New Harmony
41. Brook Farm
13.
14.
15.
16.
Mission Indian policy
The Donner Party
John C. Fremont
1846 Presidential Campaign
54 40 or fight
17. Oregon Territory Treaty 1846
18. Texas Annexation 1845
19. Mexican-American War 18461848
20. Slidell Commission
21. Wilmot Proviso 1846
22. Bear Flag Republic of
California
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
i. Sabotage
ii. Work Slowdowns
e. Slave Religion
i. Christianity appealing with stories of
poor and oppressed and promise of
eternal salvation
ii. African religious influences prevailed in
spirits, magic and conjuring
1. Common responses to
conditions of danger and
helplessness
iii. Most sermons emphasized obedience
to owners
iv. Bush meetings
1. Secret slave worships
2. Reflected slave spiritual and
human needs
3. Delivered by slave preachers
f. Folklore told stories of
i. weak creatures outwitting stronger
animals
ii. superhuman heroes
8. Antislavery Movements
a. American Colonization Society 1831
1. Liberia, 1822
b. Abolition Methods
i. Abolitionist Newspaper Publications
1. William Lloyd Garrison
2. The Liberator, 1831
ii. American Anti-slavery Society 1833
a. Promoted Abolition
and Black Shared Civil
equality
b. Permitted women
abolitionists by 1840
9. Black Abolition Activity
a. Black Slave First-hand Narratives
i. Frederick Douglass
ii. Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass 1845
b. Black Abolitionist Newspaper Publications
i. The North Star
c. Public Speaking
i. Sojourner Truth
ii. Lyceum Circuit 1840s-1850s
d. Militant Defiance
i. Harriett Tubman
ii. Underground Railroad
10. Defense of Slavery
a. VA Legislature debate last vestiage of aboltion
discussion in South; defeated
b. Biblical Defense: Slavery as a positive good
i. Religious Sects devide along sectional
lines over slavery
ii. Religious defense based on
iii. Old Testament slavery pervasive
iv. St. Paul teaching servants to obey
masters and fugitive servant to return
to master
v. Jesus silent on slavery
c. Black Inferiority Defense
i. Mental weaknesses
ii. Unable care for selves in civilized
society
d. Social Welfare Defense
i. TJ: race wars result if slaves freed out
of revenge for revious injustices
e. Slaveocracy Preservation
i. White middle class, yeoman farmers,
poor whites fear job/economic
competition
f. Patriarchal Defense
i. Masters give civility and Christianity
ii. Masters care for basic needs of slaves
when sick and old
iii. Slavery creates security and stability
for heathen blacks
iv. Wage slaves of North subject to whims
of capitalist factory owners
v. Wage earners lives exploited by
capitalists for profit then discarded
when ill, injured or not needed