Unit 5: Growing Pains: Regional Growth and Change in
Antebellum America (1800-1848)
By: Penny Hawthorne
Table of Contents
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Class Questions #1 with Keys terms to know
War of 1812’s significance
Virginia Dynasty
Significant v. Non significant
Who supported the War?
Class Questions #2 with Key terms to know
Market Revolution timeline
Not an Industrial Revolution
Causes for the Market Revolution
Class Question #1: “The War of 1812 was not historically
significant.” Assess the validity of this statement.
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10 Key ID’s
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War Hawks
Orders in Council
Hartford Convention
Impressment
Treaty of Ghent
Macon’s Bill No. 2
Non-intercourse Act
Battle of New Orleans
Andrew Jackson
Madison
War’s Significance
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 Why do American’s not know much about this war?
Because it ended in a draw. The Americans invaded
Canada thinking that it would be easily won, but the
Canadians put up a great fight and even burned down
the capital.
 Why do Canadians see it as a victory?
Because they were able to draw with a nation twice as
powerful as they were. Effectively destructed America
as well.
Virginia Dynasty
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Presidents from Virginia T. Jefferson: 1800-1808
 J. Madison: 1808-1816
 J. Monroe: 1816-1824 (The Era of Good Feelings)
Question 1 (Continued)
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Significant
Non- Significant
• Killed off Federalist Party
• No one gained or lost land
• Laid cement for new Republic
• Treaty of Ghent
• Allowed for easier expansion
• Britain finally gave up on
recolonizing America
• Hartford Convention 1814
 Accelerated destruction
 Change Constitution
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Limit president’s terms
2/3 majority to go to war
Get rid of 3/5ths clause
Who supported the War?
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Support for War Jeffersonian Republicans (South+West) The agrarian farmers,
people who weren’t directly effected by British impressment
Opposition for War Federalists (New England) those directly affected by
impressment, wanted to keep neutrality which supported their
economy, wanted to wait it out, didn’t want to fight against
own brothers in Canada
Outcomes: Promoted tremendous nationalism
Class Question #2: “The Lowell Mills industrial utopian experiment
exemplifies the market revolution and the anxiety that accompanied
it” Explain. (2) The market revolution was a result of exploitation.
Assess.
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Terms to know:
 Adams- Omis Treaty
 Seminole Wars
 Canal Boom
 National Road
 Railways (a few)
 Lowell
 Steam boats
 2nd Bank of US
 Nascent manufacturing
Market Revolution
From 1810
• Predominantly agrarian
(83.7%)
• Harvest for local markets or
own consumption
• Exchange: trade between
two items
to
1840
• (63%) agrarian
• Specialized production
• Start producing for distant and
international markets (crops,
farming)
• Exchange with cash & credit
Not a Revolution
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For Finished goods:
 1810- artisanship @ home or in shop
 1840- “putting out” system
factories
Causes of Market Revolution
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Exportation
Concentration (end of War of 1812 on West)
Cultivation (Westward spread)
Exploration (West, gaining land)
Transportation (Erie Canal)
Exploitation (Women, immigrants [Irish, Africans, Native
Americans])
Commercialization
Specialization
Innovation
Mechanization
Related Website
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