Transcript Nationalism at home

An Era of Nationalism
Focus Question
• How did domestic and foreign policy
reflect the nationalism of the times?
• Protective Tariffs
• Supreme Court decisions that
strengthened the national government
• Acquiring Florida
• Monroe Doctrine
• Missouri Compromise
NOTE TAKING
Reading Skill: Understand Effects
Nationalism Shapes Domestic
Policy
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Henry Clay
American System
Protective tariff
Build roads and canals to tie the different
regions into a harmonious whole
• Reestablish a Bank of US
Nationalism Shapes Domestic
Policies
• James Monroe, the
nation's fifth president,
embarked on a
goodwill tour through
the North
• A renewal of national
unity, called the times
the "Era of Good
Feelings."
• It was a time of few
factional disputes
Nationalism Shapes Domestic
Policies
• The spirit of nationalism was apparent in a
series of landmark Supreme Court decisions
• Established national supremacy over the states
• Extended the nation's boundaries and protected
its shipping and commerce
Marshall and the Supreme
Court
• Supreme Court
• Headed by Chief Justice
John Marshall
• Made several key
decisions that
strengthened the federal
government
• More than the framers, he
molded the development
of the Const.
Marshall and the Supreme
Court
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The “necessary and proper”, “elastic”
clause
Does a state have the power to tax a
branch of the Bank of the United
States?
– First tested in McCulloch v.
Maryland
• Bank of the US was subject
to a tax by the state of
Maryland
• The bank manager
(McCulloch) refused to pay
• Maryland argued that the
Constitution doesn’t mention
banks and therefore banks
are not allowed to be created
by Congress
Marshall and the Supreme
Court
• “The power to tax
involves the power to
destroy,"
• States do not have
the right to exert an
independent check on
the authority of the
federal government
Marshall and the Supreme
Court
• Gibbons v. Ogden
• Commerce Clause
• Overturned a New
York law that had
awarded a monopoly
over steamboat traffic
on the Hudson River
• Freed the
transportation system
from restraints by the
states
Nationalism Influences Foreign
Affairs
• In an effort to
strengthen the US
position in foreign
policy Pres
announces the
Monroe Doctrine
• The US would not
become involved in
the internal affairs of
European countries
Nationalism Influences Foreign
Affairs
• The US would not
permit any further
colonization of the
Western Hemisphere
• Top Ten most
important Foreign
Policy Decisions!
Nationalism Influences Foreign
Affairs
• Those who have used
the principle:
– 1836 manifest destiny
(Pres Polk)
Texas/West
– 1842 Hawaii
– 1900’s Roosevelt
Corollary
– 1962 Kennedy Cuban
Missile Crisis
– 1980 Reagan
Salvaldor & Grenada
Nationalism Influences Foreign
Affairs
• Adam-Onis Treaty
• Ended Spanish claims to the vast Pacific
Coast Territory and Great Britain agreed to
share the territory
• Showed the impact of nationalism on
foreign policy
Daily Quiz
The Monroe Doctrine stated that
• Europe must not try to control any nation
in the Western Hemisphere
The Supreme Court under
Chief Justice Marshall made
several decisions that
• strengthened the federal government
• Elastic Clause McCulloch v Maryland
• Commerce Clause Gibbons vs. Ogden
Nation Compromises Over
Slavery
Missouri Compromise
• 1819, Congress
debated about the
admission of Missouri
to the United States
• The issues of the
debate was slavery
• Northwest Ordinance
of 1787 established no
state NW of Ohio R.
could be a slave state
Missouri Compromise
• Henry Clay proposed a compromise
1. Slavery would not be restricted in Missouri,
Maine will be admitted as a free state –
keeps the balance of states 12 - 12
2. Territories north of 36 30N latitude in
Louisiana Purchase would be closed to
slavery
Missouri Compromise
• The crisis over the Missouri Compromise
exposed the growing sectionalism over the
issue of slavery
Daily Quiz
According to the Missouri
Compromise, slavery would be
allowed
• in Missouri, but Maine would be
admitted as a free state
Northern states objected to
admitting Missouri as a slave
state because
• it would increase the power of the
southern states in the Senate
The crisis over the Missouri
Compromise exposed
• Growing sectionalism over the issue of
slavery
Classroom Activity
Closure:
Inner Outer Circle
• Monroe Doctrine & Missouri Compromise
Political Cartoon analysis: