Review for Test III
Era of Good Feelings & Latin American
Rebellions
• “The American System”
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Henry Clay
Banking system
Protective Tariff
Internal Improvements
(Transportation)
• Era of Good Feelings
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One political party
Nationalism
Sectionalism
James Monroe
• Creole Discontent
• Jose de San Martin
– Argentina (Rio De la Plata),
Peru
• Bernardo O’Higgins
– Chile
• Simon Bolivar
– Gran Columbia, Peru
• Mexico
– Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
– Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon
– Augustin de Iturbide
Diplomacy, Expansion, Compromise
• Anglo-American
Convention
– Canadian Border
– Joint Occupation of Oregon
• Adams-Onís Treaty
– Andrew Jackson
– John Q. Adams
– Florida
• Panic of 1819
– Land speculation
• Missouri Compromise
– Missouri Slave
– Maine Free
– Line drawn at 36°30’
• McCulloch vs. Maryland
(1819)—The "Elastic
Clause Case."
• Monroe Doctrine
– Europe out of American
Affairs
• Russo-American Treaty of
1824
Jacksonian Democracy, Nullification, &
Native Americans
• “Corrupt Bargain”
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Andrew Jackson
Henry Clay
William H. Crawford
John Quincy Adams
• National Republicans
• Democratic-Republicans
• Andrew Jackson
– “Old Hickory”
– Spoils System
• “Tariff of Abominations”
– Tariff of 1828
– John C. Calhoun
• Nullification Crisis
– South Carolina
– Compromise Tariff of 1833
– Force Bill
• Native Americans
– Indian Removal Act
– Five Civilized Tribes
– Trail of Tears
• Bank War
– Nicholas Biddle
– Webster & Clay
– “Biddle’s Panic”
Texas & Political Parties
• Moses & Stephen Austin
• Deal with Mexico
– Catholic
– Mexican Citizens
– No Slaves
• Sam Houston
• Texan Independence
– Santa Anna
– The Alamo
– San Jacinto
• Democratic Republicans
→ Democrats
– Martin Van Buren
• “The Little Magician”
– State’s Rights
• National Republicans →
Whigs
– Clay’s “American System”
– Federal Rights
Panic of 1837 & the Industrial
Revolution
• Panic of 1837
– Over-speculation
(especially land)
– Jackson’s bank policies
• “Specie circular”
– Crop failure
– Banks in Britain
• Election of 1840
– Campaigning “Tippecanoe and Tyler
Too”
– William Henry Harrison
• Industrialization
– Great Britain
• Textile Industry
• Henry Cort
– “puddling”
– Rolling Mill
• Steam engine
– Thomas Newcomen
– James Watt
• Proletarianization
The Industrial Revolution in the US
• Samuel Slater
– “Father of the Factory
System"
• Eli Whitney
– Cotton Gin
– Interchangeable Parts
• Elias Howe and Isaac
Singer
– Sewing Machine
• Samuel Morse
– Telegraph
– Morse Code
• Cyrus Field
– Transatlantic Cable –
1858/1866
• “Factory girls”
• Other jobs for Women
– Teaching - Catharine
Beecher
Agriculture, Transportation, &
Socialism
• John Deere
– Steel Plow
• Cyrus McCormick
– Reaper
• Roads
– Lancaster Turnpike
– Cumberland Road - National
Road
• Steamboats
– Robert Fulton
• Erie Canal
– Dewitt Clinton
– Linked Rivers to Ocean
• The Railroad
– George Stephenson
– B&O
– Most influential
• Utopian Socialism
– Count Claude Henri de SaintSimon
– Robert Owen
• Marxism
– Karl Marx
– Friedrich Engels
– Communist Manifesto
Immigration & Year of Revolutions
• Irish
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– Prussia/Germany
Potato Famine
Boston & New York
“No Irish Need Apply”
“The Irish Vote”
• Year of Revolutions
– France
• Louis Napoleon (Napoleon
III)
– First Modern Dictator
– Hapsburgs
• Vienna, Hungary, Bohemia,
Italy
• The Frankfurt Parliament
– Results
• Serfdom
• Universal Male Suffrage for
Europe
• Germans
– “Forty-Eighters”
– Religious groups
– Jacob Amman
• The Amish
Nativists & Religion
• “Nativists”
– Fear of Roman Catholics
– Order of the Star-Spangled
Banner
• “Know-Nothing” Party
– Awful Disclosures
• Maria Monk
– Anti-Immigrant Violence
• Deism
• Unitarianism - No trinity
• Adventist - William Miller
• Mormonism
– Joseph Smith
– Brigham Young
• Second Great Awakening
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National Movement
Peter Cartwright
Charles Grandison Finney
Reform Movements
Culture, & Reform
• Education
– Horace Mann - Father of
American Education
– Noah Webster
– William H. McGuffey
• University of North
Carolina
• Mentally Ill - Dorothea
Dix
• American Peace Society
- William Ladd
• American Temperance
Society
• Seneca Falls Women’s
Rights Convention
– Declaration of
Sentiments
– Demanded Female
Suffrage
Literature
• The Knickerbocker Group
– Washington Irving - Knickerbocker's History of New York
– James Fennimore Cooper - Leatherstocking Tales
– William Cullen Bryant - "Thanatopsis"
• Transcendentalism
– Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self Reliance
– Henry David Thoreau - Walden: Or Life in the Woods
– Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass
• Historians
– George Bancroft - Father of American History
– William H. Prescott - Mexico and Peru
– Francis Parkman - History of England and France in NA
Life in the South & Abolitionists
• Oligarchy
– Rule by the wealthy few
• Class structure
– Aristocracy
– Small Farmers with Slaves
– Small Farmers without
Slaves
– Mountain whites
– Free Blacks
– Slaves
• Quakers
• American Colonization
Society
– Liberia
• Beecher Family
• William Lloyd Garrison
– The Liberator
• Wendell Phillips
– American Abolitionist
Society
• Frederick Douglass
– Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass
Tyler to Polk
• John Tyler
– “Democrat in Whigs
clothing”
• Webster-Ashburton
Treaty
– Maine
• James K. Polk
– “Young Hickory”
– Expansionist Platform
– Texas annexation
• Polk’s Four Point Plan
– Lower the Tariff
– Independent Treasury
– Oregon
• “54-40 or Fight!”
• Compromise at the 49th
– California
The Mexican War & Aftermath
• Mexican American War /
War of North American
Intervention
– California
– Texas
– Mexico City
• Nicholas Trist
• Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo
– Mexican Cession
• Wilmot Proviso
• California Gold Rush
– Sutter's Mill
– “Forty-Niners”
• Slavery
– Fugitive Slave Law
• Underground Railroad
• Debates in Congress
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Henry Clay
John C. Calhoun
Daniel Webster
William H. Seward
The Compromise of 1850
• North gets:
– California as free state
– Texas/New Mexico Border
– Washington D.C. - Slave Trade illegal
• South gets:
– Popular Sovereignty in Mexican Cession
– Texas gets $10 Million New Mexico
– Fugitive Slave Law
Possible Short IDs
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The American System
The Spoils System
Henry Clay
The Missouri Compromise
The Compromise of 1850
Andrew Jackson
Nullification Crisis
Manifest Destiny