Transcript Nationalism and Sectionalism

U.S. History Unit 2
Industry and Transportation
 Improving Roads:
turnpikes and national
roads
 Steamboats: easier to
travel upstream against the
current
 Canals: water
transportation that linked
farms to cities
 Railroads: pull heavier
loads of freight or
passengers at higher
speeds than horses, cost
less than canals
 Technology: became
known as the Industrial
Revolution
 Textile Mills: use water to
power the machines in the
mill, made cotton thread
North Embraces the Industry
 Built their own factories
 Cheap labor in the
factories
 Rivers to provide water
power for the new
factories
Social Change in the North
 Labor Unions: groups of
workers who unite to
seek better pay and
conditions, wanted
higher wages, reduce
hours/ improve
conditions
 Current Article
Social Change in the North cont…
 Middle Class Emerges:
stood about the working
class of common
laborers
 Cotton Gin: reduced the
amount of time and the
cost of separating the
seeds from white fiber
 How the Cotton Gin
works
Election of 1824
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 Andrew Jackson
becomes President
 Jacksonian Democracy:
 Majority Rule
 Dignity of the Common
People
Native American Removal
 Southerns wanted
 Many southern whites
Jackson to remove
60,000 Native Americans
off their land
 Tribes:
1. Cherokee
2. Chicksaw
3. Creek
4. Choctaw
5. Seminole
denounced the Indian
Civilization as a sham
 Georgia, Mississippi,
Alabama dissolved the
Indian Governments and
seized their land
 Indian Removal Act of
1830
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webquest.php?w=17397
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States
of America, in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be
lawful for the President of the United States to cause so much of any territory
belonging to the United States, west of the river Mississippi,
not included in any state or organized territory, and to which the Indian title
has been extinguished, as he may judge necessary, to be divided into
a suitable number of districts, for the reception of such tribes or nations of
Indians as may choose to exchange the lands where they now reside,
and remove there; and to cause each of said districts to be so described by
natural or artificial marks, as to be easily distinguished from every other.
Roll the Die
Roll the die to determine which activity your group will
complete for each word. If you roll a two you can choose
from any of the other activities listed.
1’s- Act it Out!
2’s- Wild Card!
3’s- Create a rap or song!
4’s- Create a poem!
5’s- Create a short story!
6’s- You have to complete 2 of the above!
The Second Great Awakening
 Protestant preachers
believed that Americans
had become immoral and
that receiving religious
participation was crucial to
the country’s future
 Many of these sermons
featured the idea that the
US was leading the world
into the millenium- 1,000
years of glory following the
Second Coming of Jesus
 African Methodist
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Episcopal Church
Jesus Christ of Latter- Day
Saints
Unitarians
Mormons
Utopian Society
Shakers
Transcendentalists
Public School Movement
 Establish a system of tax-
supported public schools
 Believed expanding
education would give
Americans the
knowledge and
intellectual tolls they
need to make decision of
a Democracy
 Horace Mann Primary Document
Readings
 Advanced the idea of
free public schools that
by law all have to attend
 Fought to establish
corporal and physical
punishment
Temperance Movement
 An effort to end alcohol
abuse and the problems
created by it
 Published pamphlets and
posters warning that
wasting money on liquor
prevented people from
buying food
 Had meetings where
people were urged to
pledge to refrain from
drinking alcohol
Women’s Movement
 Women were not
allowed to:
1. Hold property
2. Hold government
office
3.Vote
4. Speak in public
5. Receive the children
when divorced
Create a website for:
 Catharine Beecher
 Emma Willard
 Elizabeth Blackwell
 Ann Preston
 Dorothea Dix
 Sojourner Truth