CHAPTER 7-Balancing
Nationalism and Sectionalism
VUS.6b
Economic, political,
geographic factors that led
to territorial expansion
ANOTHER “REVOLUTION”
AFFECTS AMERICA-SECTION 1
• Eli Whitney – inventor; demonstrated the use of
interchangeable parts (parts that are exactly
alike)
-easy for unskilled workers
-increased speed of manufacturing
• Industrial Revolution – social and economic
reorganization that took place as machines
replaced hand tools and large-scale factory
production developed
Great Britain starts the Ind. Rev.
• Had abundance of labor, natural
resources, and $$$ (they made a bundle
from the slave trade/Triangle trade)
• Used swift streams/coal to generate power
(page 214)
• More $$$$ meant more factories & more
labor saving inventions
Two Economic Systems: “The Tale
of Two Regions”
• The North:
• Shipping and foreign trade invested in Mfg
(manufacturing)
• 1793 – first mechanized textile factory in
Rhode Island (What is this and why would
they hire mostly women??)
North Continued……
• Northern Agriculture:
• Small family farms or just sold enough
corn/livestock in local town to buy mfg
goods
• Little demand for slaves
• Late 1700s – Northerners begin to voice
religious & political opposition to slavery
“The South” – Way down in Dixie
• Cotton is “KING”!!!!!!!!!!
• The Cotton Kingdom was fueled by the
cotton gin >>>>> huge areas West of
Appalachian Mtns East of the
Mississippi are bought up and planted
in……….Cotton! Of course
• Cotton gin increased need for slaves
• Why?? Skill builder 1 & 2 page 216
Can the “Tale of Two Regions” be
UNIFIED ???
• Presented in 1815 by James Madison
• American System: economic plan to unite
North and South
• Three points:
• Transportation systems: National Road
and Erie Canal (Steamboat invented 1807)
• Protective Tariffs (Tariff of 1816)
• National Bank – common currency
Govt Economic Control
• McCulloch v. Maryland: Supreme Court
rules Maryland’s heavy tax on the local
B.U.S. was meant to make it fail – court
ruled the bank was protected by the
constitution
• “power to tax is power to destroy”
• National govt over state govt
• Other S.C. rulings blocked state economic
interference
Political
Nationalism shapes foreign policy
• Nationalism?? – Do you remember??
• Territories & Boundaries
• Rush-Bagot Treaty – led U.S. & Canada to
demilitarize common border
• Adams-Onis Treaty – Spain gave up rights
to Florida & Oregon territory to U.S.
Monroe Doctrine
• After Europe defeats Napoleon – Spain
and Portugal want former Colonies back
• Russia is moving from Alaska into
California
• U.S. threatened: “Dangerous to our peace
and safety”
• Europe not to interfere in Western
Hemisphere/U.S not to interfere in Europe
Can you remember?
??????????
• Interchangeable parts
• Industrial Revolution
• Northern Economics (textiles, farming,
slavery??)
• Southern Economics (King?, Cotton gin,
slavery??)
• American System, McCulloch v. Maryland,
Nationalism, Monroe Doctrine