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CHAPTER 3: THE GROWTH OF A YOUNG NATION
SECTION 1: The Jeffersonian Era
1. Jefferson’s Presidency
- Democratic Republicans
- The Election of 1800
- Simplifying the government
- Jeffersonian republicanism
- John Marshall and the Supreme Court
- Marbury v. Madison (1803)
- John Marshall
- Judicial review
- The Louisiana Purchase
2. Madison and the War of 1812
- The causes of the war
- Impressment
- The course of the war
- The consequences of the war
3. Nationalism Shapes Foreign Policy
- James Monroe
- Territory and boundaries
- The Monroe Doctrine
SECTION 2: The Age of Jackson
1. Regional Economies Create Differences
- Early industry in the United States
- The South remains agricultural
2. Balancing Nationalism and Sectionalism
- Clay’s American system
- Henry Clay
- John C. Calhoun
- The Missouri Compromise
3. The Election of Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson
- The Election of 1824
- John Quincy Adams
- Expanding democracy changes politics
- The spoils system
- Jacksonian democracy
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- The Indian Removal Act
- The Trail of Tears
- The Nullification Process
- Jackson’s bank war
4. Successors Deal with Jackson’s Legacy
- The Panic of 1837
- William Henry Harrison
- John Tyler
SECTION 3: Manifest Destiny
1. Settling the Frontier
- Americans pursue Manifest Destiny
- Trails west
- Santa Fe Trail
- Oregon Trail
- The Mormon migration
- Setting boundaries
2. Texan Independence
- Mexican Independence and Texan land grants
- Stephen F. Austin
- The Texas Revolution
- The Alamo
- Sam Houston
- Texas moves toward the Union
- James K. Polk
3. The War with Mexico
- Polk urges war
- The war begins
- The Republic of California
- America wins the war
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
4. The California Gold Rush
- The forty-niners
- The golden economy
- “Go west, young man!”
SECTION 4: The Market Revolution
1. The Market Revolution
- Market revolution
- US markets expand
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- Free enterprise
- Entrepreneurs
- Inventions and Improvements
- Samuel F. B. Morse
- The market revolution transforms the nation
2. Changing Workplaces
- The Lowell Textile mills
3. Workers Seek Better Conditions
- Workers strike
- Immigration increases
- National Trades’ Union
- Commonwealth v. Hunt
SECTION 5: Reforming American Society
1. A Spiritual Awakening Inspires Reform
- The Second Great Awakening
- Unitarians
- Transcendentalism
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The African-American church
2. Slavery and Abolition
- William Lloyd Garrison
- Frederick Douglas
- Life under slavery
- Turner’s Rebellion
- Nat Turner
- Slave owners oppose abolition
3. Women and Reform
- Women mobilize for reform
- Education for women
- Education and women’s health
- Women’s rights movement emerges
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Seneca Falls convention
- Sojourner Truth