"As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending."
-Andrew Jackson, First Inaugural Address, 1829
-Andrew Jackson, First Inaugural Address, 1829
Period 4: 1800-1848
Overlapping Revolutions
The new republic struggled to define and extend democratic ideals in the face of rapid economic, territorial, and demographic changes.
Key Concept 4.1: The United States began to develop a modern democracy and celebrated a new national culture, while Americans sought to define the nation’s democratic ideals and change their society and institutions to match them.
Key Concept 4.2: Innovations in technology, agriculture, and commerce powerfully accelerated the American economy, precipitating profound changes to U.S. society and to national and regional identities.
Key Concept 4.3: The U.S. interest in increasing foreign trade and expanding its national borders shaped the nation’s foreign policy and spurred government and private initiatives.
- The nation’s transition to a more participatory democracy was achieved by expanding suffrage from a system based on property ownership to one based on voting by all adult white men, and it was accompanied by the growth of political parties.
- While Americans embraced a new national culture, various groups developed distinctive cultures of their own.
- Increasing numbers of Americans, many inspired by new religious and intellectual movements, worked primarily outside of government institutions to advance their ideals.
Key Concept 4.2: Innovations in technology, agriculture, and commerce powerfully accelerated the American economy, precipitating profound changes to U.S. society and to national and regional identities.
- New transportation systems and technologies dramatically expanded manufacturing and agricultural production.
- The changes caused by the market revolution had significant effects on U.S. society, workers’ lives, and gender and family relations.
- Economic development shaped settlement and trade patterns, helping to unify the nation while also encouraging the growth of different regions.
Key Concept 4.3: The U.S. interest in increasing foreign trade and expanding its national borders shaped the nation’s foreign policy and spurred government and private initiatives.
- Struggling to create an independent global presence, the United States sought to claim territory throughout the North American continent and promote foreign trade.
- The United States’s acquisition of lands in the West gave rise to contests over the extension of slavery into new territories.
Chapter 9: Transforming the Economy (1800-1860)
Aim: How does the nation begin to expand?
"A high and honorable feeling generally prevails, and the people begin to assume, more and more, a national character; and to look at home for the only means , under divine goodness, of preserving their religion and liberty."
-Hezekiah Niles, Niles’ Weekly Register,September 2, 1815
-Hezekiah Niles, Niles’ Weekly Register,September 2, 1815
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Chapter 10: A Democratic Revolution (1800-1844)
Aim: What makes the Jacksonian Democracy different from the previous?
"The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer...form the great body of the people of the United States they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws."
-Andrew Jackson
-Andrew Jackson
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Aim: How is American society changing in the Antebellum period?
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Chapter 12: The South Expands: Slavery and Society (1800-1860)
Aim: How does slavery impact the development of the South?
"Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils. The unhappy man who has been treated as a brute animal, too frequently sinks beneath the common standard of the human species. The galling chains, that bind his body, do also fetter his intellectual faculties, and impair the social affections of his heart… To instruct, to advise, to qualify those, who have been restored to freedom, for the exercise and enjoyment of civil liberty… and to procure for their children an education calculated for their future situation in life; these are the great outlines of the annexed plan, which we have adopted."
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin
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