Transcript H105I: A Nation Emerges

A Nation Emerges
A young United States exhibits the
power of growing nationalism
I. The First Wave of Internal
Improvements
• Roads
--National Road
(1818)
• Steamboats
--Fulton’s Clermont
(1807)
--Enterprise (1815)
• Canals
--Erie Canal (1825)
II. The Emergence of a National
Market
• Stimuli to the emergence of
a national market
• Encourages regional
specialization
• Credit became the key
ingredient to a smoothly
operating market
• The rise of private and state
banks in 1811
• The establishment of the 2nd
National Bank in 1816
• The Panic of 1819
III. Settlement to the Mississippi
River
• Native Americans seen
as obstacles to
progress
• Government land sales
and speculation
• Debt as a fact of life
• The practice of smallscale land speculation
III. Settlement to the Mississippi
River (cont)
• Adjusting to depopulation in New
England
• Self-sufficiency is the
rule of life
• Western Plains of the
United States were
seen as a “Great
Desert”
IV. Early Industrialization
• A land of cottages and
shops before 1815
• The “putting out”
system
• The Transition
• The Lowell System
(1822)
• No American
Industrial Revolution
V. The Politics of NationBuilding
A. The Congressional
Contribution to Nationalism
• Very Hamiltonian
legislation
• New Tariff (1816)
• Henry Clay’s “American
System”
• Internal Improvement
laws were the most
controversial
• Missouri Compromise
(1820)
B. The Nationalism of James
Monroe
• Monroe’s Background
• Keynote of his
presidency = national
harmony
• “Era of Good
Feelings”
• Monroe’s attempts to
create national
harmony
C. The Nationalism of John
Marshall
• Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court from
1801-1835
• The importance of
individual liberty to
acquire property
• The importance of a
strong national
government
• Key Decisions
--McCulloch v. Maryland
(1819)
VI. Foreign Policy and
Nationalism
• Relations with Great Britain
improved
• The Acquisition of all of
Florida from the Spanish
• The “Age of the Mountain
Men”
• The Monroe Doctrine (1823)
• Sign of rising selfconfidence and inwardlooking nature of American
nationalism