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Growth of a New
Nation
Mrs. Tucker
US History
Victor Valley High School
Main Points
•
Nullification/John Calhoun
•
Grange
•
Transcontinental Railroad
•
Dawes Act
•
Bleeding Kansas
•
Kansas-Nebraska Act
•
Missouri Compromise
•
Interstate Commerce Act
•
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
•
Manifest Destiny
•
Mormon Movement
•
Gold in California – 49ers
•
Pap Singleton
•
Us Expansion
•
William Jennings Bryan – increasing silver
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Mexican American War/Gadsden Purchase
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Populist
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Andrew Jackson/Indian Removal Act
•
Second Great Awakening
•
Republic of Texas – Alamo
•
Indian Removal/Reservations
•
Buffalo Soldiers
The Growth of a Young
Nation
• Jeffersonian Era
• Jeffersonian
Republicans
• People should control
government
• Small Government
• Eliminating internal
taxes
• Reducing influence of
Bank of US
Marbury vs. Madison
• John Marshall – Supreme
Court
• John Adams tried to
influence future judicial
decisions by filling
federal judgeships with
Federalists
• Signed documents
authorizing appointment
weren’t delivered;
• Jefferson argued that
these appointments
were invalid – ordered
Madison, his Secretary
of State not to deliver
them
• Federalist Chief Justice
John Marshall declared
that part of Congress’s
Judiciary Act of 1789 –
that would force Madison
to hand over papers was
unconstitutional.
• Established principle of
Judicial Review
Marbury vs. Madison
Jefferson
• Louisiana Purchase
• In 1803 Napoleon
Bonaparte abandoned
his ideas of an
American empire and
sold the Louisiana
Territory to the US for
$15 million.
• This purchase more
than doubled the size
of the United States
James Madison - War of
1812
• Causes of the War
• Impressment (Drafting)
American soldiers to the
British Navy;
• British officials in Canada
were supplying arms to
Native Americans in battle
against American settlers;
• War Hawks – young
congressmen from South
and West demanded war;
• Americans – lack of funding
and popular support – few
volunteers and unprepared
for war;
• Britain preoccupied with
fighting Napoleon in Europe
– However burned capital
Washington, DC in 1814;
• Impressive American
Victory at New Orleans –
Andrew Jackson – hero;
• Peace treaty was already
signed BEFORE the battle
James and Dolly Madison
Consequences of the
War
• End of the Federalist
Party who opposed
the war;
• Encouraged growth of
American industries to
manufacture products
not available from
Britain because of the
war;
• Confirmed status of
the US as a free and
independent nation;
Nationalism Shapes
Foreign Policy
• James Monroe –
elected 1816
• Secretary of State,
John Quincy Adams –
established foreign
policy based on
• Nationalism – belief
that national interests
should be placed ahead
of regional concerns
such as slavery in the
south or tariffs in the
Northeast;
James Monroe and John Quincy Adams
James Monroe and John Quincy Adams
• Territory and Boundaries
• EXPANSION – high on
John Quincy Adams
priority;
• Convention of 1818 –
fixed US border at 49th
parallel from Michigan
west to Rocky
Mountains;
• Compromise with Britain
to jointly occupy Oregon
Territory for 10 years;
• Convinced Don Luis de
Onis – Spanish minister to
US to transfer Florida to
the US;
• Adams-Onis Treaty – 1819
established a western
boundary for US along
Sabine River from Gulf of
Mexico to Arkansas River
and North to 42nd parallel
and West to the Pacific
Ocean;
Monroe Doctrine
• When Napoleon was
defeated in 1815, Portugal
and Spain wanted to
reclaim their former
colonies in Latin America;
• Russia, who had been in
Alaska since 1784 were
establishing trading posts
in California and claimed
Alaska’s southern
boundary was 51st parallel
– just North of Vancouver
Island;
• With European
nations trying to
claim areas the US
wanted, in 1823, in his
message to Congress,
Monroe warned all
European power not
to interfere with
affairs in the Western
Hemisphere.
Monroe Doctrine
Monroe Doctrine
• They should not
attempt to create new
colonies or try to
overthrow the newly
independent republics
in the hemisphere. The
United States would
consider such action
“dangerous to our
peace and safety.”
• These principles
became known as the
Monroe Doctrine.
• Foundation for future
American policy and
important step for the
new nation;
List an event from each of the following
Presidents and its Significance
• Thomas Jefferson
• Read pages 110 117
• Event
• Significance
• Answer Questions:
• James Madison
• Event
• Significance
• James Monroe
• Event
• Significance
• John Quincy Adams
• Event
• Significance
• 1 – Vocabulary
• 2 – Taking Notes – left;
• 3 - Evaluating Leadership
• 4 - Evaluate War of 1812
• 5 – Drawing Conclusion;