Goal 2 Notes Outline

Competency Goal 2: Expansion and Reform (18014850)- the learner will assess the competing forces of expansionism, nationalism, and sectionalism.

Objectives
2.01 Analyze the effects of territorial expansion and the admission of new states to the Union.
2.02 Describe how the growth of nationalism and sectionalism were reflected in art, literature, and language.
2.03 Distinguish between the economic and social issues that led to sectionalism and nationalism.
2.04 Assess political events, issues, and personalities that contributed to sectionalism and nationalism.
2.05 Identify the major reform movements and evaluate their effectiveness.
2.06 Evaluate the role of religion in the debate over slavery and other social movements and issues

I. Monroe’s Presidency
a. Era of Good Feelings and nationalism
b. Domestic issues
i. The Second Bank
1. Calhoun
2. Clay and Webster
ii. Tariffs
1. revenue
2. protective
iii. Supreme Court Nationalism
1. Fletcher v Peck, 1810
2. Martin v Hunter’s Lessee, 1816
3. McCulloch v Maryland, 1819
4. Cohens v Virginia, 1821
5. Gibbons v Ogden, 1824
iv. Seminole Indian resistance
1. Andrew Jackson
2. Adams-Onis Treaty, 1819
v. Monroe Doctrine, 1823
c. Advancement in Industry
i. Erie Canal
ii. National Road
iii. Inventions of the time
1. Steamboat
2. Railroads
3. Mills
4. Interchangable parts
5. Telegraph
iv. Urbanization
1. Cities
2. Labor unions
a. Techniques used
b. Commonwealth v Hunt, 1842
d. Southern Economy
i. Agriculture
1. Cotton
2. Cotton gin
3. Lack of industry
4. Class structure
a. Planters
b. Yeomans
c. Slavery
i. Task system
ii. Gang system
iii. Frederick Douglass
iv. Slave codes
v. Culture of African-Americans
vi. Rebellion
1. Nat Turner
2. Vesey
e. Missouri Compromise
i. Why was it needed?
ii. What did it do?
f. Election of 1824
i. Favorite sons and their beliefs
1. Henry Clay
a. American system
2. Andrew Jackson
3. John Quincy Adams
4. William Crawford
ii. Electoral college issue AGAIN!!!
1. Corrupt bargain

II. John Quincy Adams’ Presidency
a. Improvements
b. Election of 1828
i. Mudslinging

III. Andrew Jackson’s Presidency
a. Grassroots presidency
b. Jacksonian Democracy
i. Expansion of voting rights
ii. Spoils system
iii. National nominating convention
iv. Tariff of Abominations
1. John C. Calhoun
v. Webster-Hayne debates
vi. Force Bill
vii. National bank
c. Indian affairs
i. Indian Removal Act
1. Trail of Tears
d. Rise of the Whigs
i. Martin Van Buren’s Presidency
1. Panic of 1837
2. Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!
ii. William Henry Harrison’s Presidency
iii. John Tyler’s Presidency
1. Webster-Ashburton treaty

IV. A Changing America
a. Immigration
i. Massive influx
ii. Nativism
1. Know-Nothings
b. Religion
i. Second Great Awakening
1. Charles Finney
ii. Mormons
1. Joseph Smith
2. Mormon Trail
iii. Benevolent societies
1. Beecher
c. Literature
i. Romanticism
1. James Fenimore Cooper
2. Nathaniel Hawthorne
3. Herman Melville
4. Edgar Allan Poe
5. Walt Whitman
6. Emily Dickinson
ii. Tracendentalism
1. Emerson
2. Fuller
3. Thoreau
iii. Penny papers
d. Reform
i. Utopian communities
1. Brook Farm
2. Shakers
ii. Asylums for mentally ill
1. Dorothea Dix
iii. Temperance Movement
1. Why did this start?
2. Demon Rum
iv. Penitentiaries
v. Education
1. Horace Mann
vi. Women
1. Education
a. Willard, Lyon, Blackwell
2. Greater rights
a. Lucretia Mott
b. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
i. Seneca Falls Declaration
vii. Abolitionist Movement
1. Gradualism
2. Colonization
3. Abolition
a. Garrison and The Liberator
b. Douglass
c. Sojourner Truth
4. Reaction in the North versus reaction in the South

V. Manifest Destiny
a. John O’Sullivan
b. Squatters
i. Preemption Act of 1830
c. Inventions
i. Deere
ii. Wood
iii. McCormick
d. Settling the west
i. Oregon
ii. California
iii. Trails
1. Oregon Trail
a. Donner Party
2. Mormon Trail
a. Joseph Smith
b. Brigham Young
3. Pony Express
e. John Polk’s Presidency
f. Texas
i. Americans flood into Texas
1. Tejanos
2. Empresarios
a. Stephen Austin
b. National colonization Act
ii. Texas Revolution
1. Causes
2. Santa Anna
3. Sam Houston
4. The Alamo
5. San Jacinto
6. Annexation of Texas
g. Oregon
i. Fifty-four Forty or Fight
h. Mexican-American War
1. John Slidell
2. Causes of the war
3. Zachary Taylor
4. John C Fremont
5. Bear Flag Republic
6. Winfield Scott
7. Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Book Sources
The American Vision: Chapters 7, 8, 9
United States History: Chapters 3, 4, 5