Growth of a New Nation

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Growth of a New Nation

• Chapters 6 through 10

Washington
Jefferson
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Age of Washington

• No Political Parties
• Set many Precedents
• New Departments
• Cabinet
• Whiskey Rebellion

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US in Debt

• Alexander Hamilton
• Establish Credibility, Cater to Rich
• Hamiltons Financial Plan
• Tariffs, Excise Tax, Bonds
• Consolidate State Debts
• Deal Financial Plan for Capitol

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National Bank

• Strict Interpretation
• Jefferson, Madison
• Loose Interpretation
• Hamilton
• elastic clause ... necessary and proper

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Political Parties

• Federalists
• Hamilton...Upperclass, Bank, Loose
  Interpretation
• Democratic-Republicans
• Jefferson Madison... Common Person, NO Bank,
  Strict Interpretation

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President Adams

• Election of 1796
• XYZ Affair
• ResultMilitary taxes
• Alien Sedition Acts

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Election of 1800

• Fed Adams Rep Jefferson
• Results ... House of Representatives
• Key Man ... ????
• Got Milk?? Who shot A. H.?

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Age of Jefferson

• Style Accomplishments
• Supreme Court Gains Power
• Judiciary Act of 1801
• Midnight Judges
• Marbury v. Madison 1803
• John Marshalls Stamp

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Problems with England

• Blockade and Impressment
• Chesapeake Affair 1807
• Jefferson ... Embargo Act of 1807
• Madison ... Non-Intercourse Act
• War Hawks
• Battle of Tippecanoe 1811

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War of 1812

• Battle of York
• Battle of Washington DC
• Battle of Fort McHenry
• Treaty of Ghent
• Battle of New Orleans
• Andrew Jackson

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Consequence
RESPECT
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Expansion Louisiana Territory
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Westward Expansion

• Louisiana Purchase
• Spain / France / US
• 15 Million
• Jefferson - Strict Interpretation
• Elastic Clause
• Lewis and Clark

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Spirit of Nationalism

• Foreign Policy
• Florida Monroe Doctrine
• The American System
• Erie Canal, National Road
• Industrialization
• Francis Lowell

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Western Frontier

• 2nd Great Awakening
• Revivals ... Emotion
• Splintering off religions
• South West
• Increase in Reforms

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Humanitarian Reforms

• William Lloyd Garrison
• Womens Movement
• Horace Mann
• Sarah Bagley
• Dorthea Dix
• Frederick Douglass

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Election of 1824(all Republicans)

• John Quincy Adams (Mass)
• Andrew Jackson (Tenn)
• Henry Clay (Ky)
• William Crawford (Ga)

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Results of 1824
Jackson - Plurality Winner
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Lets Make a Deal

• House Decides
• Top 3 ... Clay out
• Crawford - Stroke
• The Winner is ...???

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Party Split

• Jacksons Followers -- Democratic Republicans ...
  Democrats
• Adams/Clay Followers -- National Republicans ...
  later Whigs
• Election of 1828

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The Age of Jackson

• Old Hickory
• Hated Rich, Bank, Indians
• Spoils System
• Kitchen Cabinet

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Jackson and Indians

• Indian Removal Act 1830
• Cherokee Nation (Ga)
• Worcester v. Georgia
• John Marshall
• Trail of Tears

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President Jackson

• Tariff Issue
• Doctrine of Nullification - S.C.
• Bank Issue
• Nicholas Biddle
• Jackson Veto increases Power

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Manifest Destiny - Texas

• Texas and Independence
• Stephen Austin v. Santa Anna
• Remember the Alamo
• Sam Houston at San Jacinto
• Lonestar Republic

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Mexican - American War1846-48

• Polks Offer
• General Z. Taylor
• War Message
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo