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Day Three
Big Ideas About Our Government
Expansion
All is Not Well in America
War of 1812
Consequences of War
American Culture
Big Ideas About Our
Government
• Marbury v. Madison
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Supreme Court Case
Established JUDICIAL REVIEW
• Separation of Powers:
Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branches
of government have separate powers
o System of Checks and Balances
o This is to protect rights of people
o No branch of government has more power
than the other
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Manifest Destiny
• Belief shared by many
Americans that the U.S. was
destined to stretch from the
Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific
Ocean
Treaty Of Paris 1783
• Ended the American Revolution
• The United States got all land east of the
Mississippi River
Land Ordinance of 1785
• Provided ways to divide and sell public
land and which portions of money were
used for public education
Northwest Ordinance
• Established a process for western
territories to become states
• Steps to become a state
• NO SLAVERY
Louisiana Purchase
• Thomas Jefferson purchased the land
because he wanted New Orleans (use of
the Mississippi River)
• Added land to the United States
• Purchased from France
• Doubled the size of US
Lewis and Clark
• Explored the Louisiana Purchase
• Went all the way to the Pacific Ocean
Indian Removal Act
• Trail of Tears
• Removal of Cherokees from the
Southeast
• Andrew Jackson was president
• Indians moved to Oklahoma
• Thousands died
Indian Removal Act
• Trail of Tears
• Removal of Cherokees from the
Southeast
• Andrew Jackson was president
• Indians moved to Oklahoma
• Thousands died
Expansion to Oregon &
California
• Oregon
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Settlers moved west for free land
Oregon was settled because of fur traders
• California
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GOLD was found at Sutters Mill
War for Texas Independence
• Texas won independence from Mexico
• First became a U.S. County, then became
a state
Mexican War
• U.S. gains land from Mexico that
stretched from Texas to California
Women’s Rights
• Seneca Falls Convention was held to
organize women.
• Emerged from the abolitionist movement
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Susan B. Anthony
• Margaret Sanger – birth control
Abolitionists
• William Lloyd Garrison – Anti-slavery
newspaper, The Liberator
• Harriet Beecher Stowe – wrote Uncle
Tom’s Cabin
• Frederick Douglas – Former Slave
• Harriett Tubman - led Underground
Railroad
• Underground Railroad
Temperance
• Focused on alcohol
• Stressed moral values
Education Reform
• Horace Mann stressed
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Public schools
Better teacher pay
Normal schools (teacher education programs)
Longer school year
War of 1812
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United States v. England (Again)
“Second American Revolution”
James Madison was the president
Battle of Horseshoe Bend – in Alabama
Battle of Ft. McHenry – Star-Spangled
Banner was written here by Francis Scott
Key
• Battle of New Orleans – Ended the war;
Andrew Jackson defeated the British here
 NATIONALISM
Nullification Crisis
• South Carolina said a law about a
protective tariff was unconstitutional and
declared it null and void
Gibbons v. Ogden
• Marshall’s Supreme Court – the Federal
Government, not the states, could
regulate interstate commerce – Gibbons
v. Ogden
Jacksonian Democracy
• Spoils system – hire your friends
• Jackson was a common man
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He believed that all white men should vote
Utopian Communities
• Communities that hoped to be ideal
Alabama
• Gained statehood in 1819
Monroe Doctrine
• No more colonies in the western
hemisphere….
• We followed this for years
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