Nationalism --> Sectionalism --> Crisis --> Reconstruction
A. James Monroe; Era of Good Feelings
B. Panic of 1819
C. Settlement of the West
D. Missouri Compromise
E. Foreign affairs: Canada, Florida, the Monroe Doctrine
F. Election of 1824: End of Virginia dynasty
G. Economic revolution
1. Early railroads and canals
2. Expansion of business
a. Beginnings of factory system
b. Early labor movement; women
c. Social mobility; extremes of wealth
3. The cotton revolution in the South
4. Commercial agriculture
9. Sectionalism
A. The South
1. Cotton Kingdom
2. Southern trade and industry
3. Southern society and culture
a. Gradations of white society
b. Nature of slavery: "peculiar institution"
c. The mind of the South
B. The North
1. Northeast industry
a. Labor
b. Immigration
c. Urban slums
2. Northwest agriculture
C. Westward expansion
1. Advance of agricultural frontier
2. Significance fo the frontier
3. Life on the frontier; squatters
4. Removal of American Indians
10. Age of Jackson, 1828-1848
A. Democracy and the "common man"
1. Expansion of suffrage
2. Rotation in office
B. Second party system
1. Democratic Party
2. Whig party
C. Internal improvements and states' rights: the Maysville Road veto
D. The Nullification Crisis
1. Tariff issue
2. The Union: Calhoun and Jackson
E. The Bank War: Jackson and Biddle
F. Martin van Buren
1. Independent treasury system
2. Panic of 1837
11. Territorial Expansion and Sectional Crisis
A. MAnifest Destiny and mission
B. Texas annexation, the Oregon boundary, and California
C. James K. Polk and the Mexican War; slavery and the Wilmot Proviso
D. Later expansionist efforts
12. Creating an American Culture
A. Cultural nationalism
B. Education reform/professionalism
C. Religion; revivalism
D. Utopian experiments: Mormons, Oneida Community
E. Transcendentalists
F. National literature, art, architecture
G. Reform crusades
1. Feminism; roles of women in the nineteenth century
2. Abolitionism
3. Temperence
4. Criminals and the insane
Section One:
1492-1816
Section Three:
1877-1914
Section Four:
1914-1945
Section Five:
1945-1974
Section Six:
1974-present
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