Growing Pains
1800-1860

 
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The Age of Jefferson:  1800-1816 Nationalism and Economic Development:
1817-1850

Sectionalism: 1820-1850

  • Thomas Jefferson

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Napoleon Bonaparte

  • Toussaint ’Ouverture

  • Strict interpretation of the Constitution

  • Lewis & Clark expedition

  • John Marshall

  • Judicial review

  • Marbury v. Madison (1803)

  • Aaron Burr

  • “Quids”

  • Barbary pirates

  • Neutrality

  • Impressments

  • Chesapeake-Leopard Affair

  • Embargo Act (1807)

  • James Madison

  • Non-Intercourse Act (1809)

  • Macon’s Bill No. 2 (1810)

  • Tecumseh; Prophet

  • William Henry Harrison

  • Battle of Tippecanoe

  • War hawks

  • Henry Clay

  • John C. Calhoun

  • War of 1812

  • “Old Ironsides”

  • Battle of Lake Erie

  • Francis Scott Key “Star Spangled Banner”

  • Andrew Jackson

  • Creek Nation

  • Battle of New Orleans

  • Treaty of Ghent (1814)

  • Hartford Convention (1814)

 

  • Era of Good Feelings

  • Sectionalism

  • James Monroe

  • Nationalism (cultural, economic)

  • Tariff of 1816

  • Protective tariff

  • Henry Clay (American System)

  • Second Bank of the U.S. (SBUS)

  • Panic of 1819

  • John Marshall

  • Fletcher v. Peck (1810)

  • Martin v. Hunter's Lessee (1816)

  • McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

  • Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)

  • Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

  • Implied powers

  • Tallmadge Amendment

  • Missouri Compromise (1820)

  • Rush-Bagot Agreement (1817)

  • Convention of (Treaty) of 1818

  • Andrew Jackson

  • Florida Purchase Treaty (1819)

  • Monroe Doctrine (1823)

  • National (Cumberland) Road

  • Erie Canal

  • Robert Fulton (steamboats, railroads)

  • Eli Whitney (interchangeable parts)

  • Corporations

  • Factory system

  • Lowell system (textile mills)

  • Industrialization

  • Specialization

  • Unions

  • Cotton gin

  • Sectionalism

  • Daniel Webster

  • Industrial Revolution

  • Urbanization (urban life, new cities)

  • Irish (potato famine)

  • Germans

  • Old Northwest

  • Immigration

  • Nativists

  • American party

  • King Cotton

  • “Peculiar institution”

  • Slave Rebellions (Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner)

  • Slavery, Free African Americans

  • Planters, Poor Whites, Mountain people

  • The West

  • The Frontier

  • Native American Removal

  • Great Plains

  • White settlers

  • Environmental Damage

 

The Ferment of Reform: 1820-1860

The Age of Jackson: 1824-1840

 
  • Antebellum period

  • Second Great Awakening

  • Revivalism (revival or camp meetings)

  • Millennialism

  • Church of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons)

  • Joseph Smith & Brigham Young

  • New Zion

  • Romantic Movement

  • Transcendentalists

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Henry David Thoreau

  • Brook Farm, George Ripley

  • Feminists

  • Utopian communities

  • Shakers

  • Oneida Community

  • Horace Greeley

  • Hudson River School

  • Washington Irving

  • James Fenimore Cooper

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • Temperance

  • American Temperance Society

  • Washingtonians

  • Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

  • Asylum movement

  • Dorthea Dix

  • Penitentiaries

  • Auburn System

  • Horace Mann

  • Public school movement

  • Women’s rights movement

  • Letter in the Condition of Women and the Equality of the Sexes

  • Lucretia Mott

  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  • Seneca Falls Convention (1848)

  • Susan B. Anthony

  • American Colonization Society

  • American Antislavery Society

  • Abolitionism

  • William Lloyd Garrison (The Liberator)

  • Liberty Party

  • Frederick Douglass (The North Star)

  • Harriet Tubman

  • Sojourner Truth

  • Nat Turner

  • American Peace Society

  • Common man

  • Universal male suffrage

  • Party nominating convention

  • “King Caucus”

  • Popular election of the president

  • Anti-Masonic party

  • Workingmen’s party

  • Spoils system

  • John Quincy Adams

  • “Corrupt bargain”

  • Henry Clay

  • Tariff of 1828 (“Tariff of Abominations”)

  • Andrew Jackson

  • Popular campaigning

  • Revolution of 1828

  • Role of the president

  • Rotation in office

  • Peggy Eaton Affair

  • Indian Removal Act (1830)

  • Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)

  • Worcester v. Georgia (1832)

  • Trail of Tears

  • States’ rights

  • Nullification crisis

  • Webster-Hayne Debate

  • John C. Calhoun

  • Proclamation to the People of South Carolina

  • Bank of the United States

  • Nicholas Biddle

  • Two-party system (Democrats, Whigs)

  • Roger Taney

  • “Pet Banks”

  • Specie Circular

  • Panic of 1837

  • Martin Van Buren

  • “Log Cabin and Hard Cider” campaign