Alan Brinkley,
AMERICAN HISTORY
13/e
Chapter Eight:
Varieties of American
Nationalism
Today’s Objectives
1) Create Topical Reading Outline
 2) Brief Notes over Major Concepts of
Chapter 8
 3) Election Results
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Chapter Eight:
Varieties of American Nationalism
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Introduction
 The Growing Crisis Over Slavery
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A Growing Economy
– Banking, Currency, and Protection
 Postwar Issues
 Second Bank of the United States
 Growth of the Textile Industry
 A Protective Tariff
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Varieties of American Nationalism
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A Growing Economy
– Transportation
 Government-Funded Roads
 Steamboats
 Vetoing Internal Improvements
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Chapter Eight:
Varieties of American Nationalism
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Expanding Westward
– The Great Migrations
 Reasons for Westward Expansion
 The Factor System
– The Plantation System in the Southwest
 Cotton and the Expansion of Slavery
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Chapter Eight:
Varieties of American Nationalism
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Expanding Westward
– Trade and Trapping in the Far West
 Astor’s American Fur Company
 The Fur Trade and the Market Economy
– Eastern Images of the West
 Stephen Long’s Expedition
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Election of 1812
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1812
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Varieties of American Nationalism
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The “Era of Good Feelings”  party
and sectional divisions were forgotten
– The End of the
First Party System
 The Virginia Dynasty
 Monroe’s Goodwill Tour
 Election of 1816
James Monroe
(Library of Congress)
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Chapter Eight:
Varieties of American Nationalism
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The “Era of Good Feelings”
– John Quincy Adams and Florida
 The Seminole War
 Adams-Onís Treaty: Spain decided to sell the
rest of Florida to US before they took it anyway,
so Spain surrendered all claims to territory and
drew boundary of Mexico all way to Pacific
Ocean. The US agreed to take over $5 million in
debt owed to US Merchants
– The Panic of 1819
 Boom and Bust: GB dumped all their goods into America
at dirt cheap prices, caused market to drop
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Chapter Eight:
Varieties of American Nationalism
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Sectionalism and Nationalism
 Tallmadge
Amendment: Tallmadge of
NY proposed an amendment to the
bill which would prohibit slavery
in Missouri
 Missouri
Compromise: Missouri
The Missouri
Compromise, 1820
applied for statehood in 1919.
Admission of a slave state would
change the perfect balance that
existed and give a voting
advantage to either North or
South. Henry Clay proposed
Missouri be slave state, Maine be a
free state. Also, slavery prohibited
in remainder of LA Territory
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Election of 1820
1820 (This shows NATIONAL UNITY)
 WHY???
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Varieties of American Nationalism
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Sectionalism and Nationalism
Chief Justice John Marshall
(National Archives)
– Marshall and the Court
 Dartmouth College
v. Woodward (president tried to change
Dartmouth from a private to a public college by having
charter revoked; charter was granted during colonial
days but SC ruled it was a contract
 Confirming Implied Powers
 Establishing Federal Primacy (state govts. Had
limited power)
– The Court and the Tribes
 Worcester v. Georgia: U.S. Supreme Court held
in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians constituted a
nation holding distinct sovereign powers.
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Varieties of American Nationalism
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Sectionalism and Nationalism
– The Latin American Revolution and the
Monroe Doctrine
 Revolution in Latin America
 The Monroe Doctrine: 1823 Pres. Monroe
says the American hemisphere is not to be
considered as subjects for future colonization
by European powers (worked for 31 years)
 American Fears
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Chapter Eight:
Varieties of American Nationalism
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The Revival of Opposition
 New Political Divisions
– The “Corrupt Bargain”
 End of the Caucus System
 Election of 1824
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Candidate
Electoral
Vote
Popular
Vote
House
Vote
Jackson
99
153,544
7
Adams
84
108,740
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Crawford
41
46,618
4
Clay
37
47,136
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Chapter Eight:
Varieties of American Nationalism
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The Revival of Opposition
– The Second
President Adams
 Tariff of Abominations
John Quincy Adams
(Library of Congress)
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Varieties of American Nationalism
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The Revival of Opposition
– Jackson Triumphant
The Election of 1828
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