Goal 2 - Expansion & Reform
Expansion and Reform (1801-1850) - The learner will assess the competing forces of expansionism, nationalism, and sectionalism.
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Objective 2.06
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.
- The rationale for and the consequences of Manifest Destiny - Federal Indian policy before The Civil War - The political and economic importance of the West
* Missouri Compromise * The Indian Removal Act, 1830 * Worchester v. Georgia,1832 * Trail of Tears * White man suffrage * The Alamo * Election of 1844 * Texas Annexation * �54-40 or Fight!� * Mexican War * Wilmot Proviso * Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo * 49ers * Mexican Cession * Webster-Ashburton Treaty
- Cultural expressions of patriotism - Celebrating the common man and the American way of life - Influence of the Transcendentalist Movement
* Noah Webster * Ralph Waldo Emerson * Henry David Thoreau * Neoclassical Architecture * Washington Irving * Edgar Allen Poe * Nathaniel Hawthorne * James Fennimore Cooper * Hudson River School of Artists * Alex de Tocqueville
- Transformation of life in the early industrial revolution - Cultural polarization of Antebellum America - Implications of the plantation system in the South
* Samuel Morse * Eli Whitney * John Deere * Cyrus McCormick * Robert Fulton * Erie Canal * Cotton Kingdom * 1st Industrial Revolution * Nativism * Know-Nothings * William Lloyd Garrison * Frederick Douglass * Factory System * Plantation System * Interchangeable Parts * Internal Improvements
- Political agendas of antebellum leaders - Concepts of �Jacksonian Democracy� - Slave Revolts - States� Rights - Era of Good Feelings
* Henry Clay * American System * Panic of 1819 * McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819 * Election of 1824 * "corrupt bargain� * suffrage * spoils system * Tariff of Abomination * South Carolina Nullification Crisis * South Carolina Exposition and Protest * Election of 1832 * Pet Banks * Whig Party * Election of 1840 * Nat Turner�s Rebellion * Monroe Doctrine, 1823 * Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824 * John C. Calhoun
- Women�s Rights - Temperance Movement - Improvement of social institutions (prisons, mental health, education) - Development of Utopian Communities
* Dorothea Dix * Horace Mann * Elizabeth Cady Stanton * Lucretia Mott * Seneca Falls Convention * Sojourner Truth * Susan B. Anthony * Utopian Communities � Brook Farm � Oneida � New Harmony * Rehabilitation * Prison Reform * 2nd Great Awakening
- Second Great Awakening - Moral Dilemma of Slavery - The Abolitionist Movement
* William Lloyd Garrison * Grimke Sisters * David Walker * Frederick Douglass * Charles G. Finney