Chapters 9-10Foner
Rise of the American nation
Jefferson to Jackson
Presidents1817-18415. James
Monroe
6. John Quincy Adams
7. Andrew Jackson
8. Martin Van Buren
9. William Henry Harrison
• Roads and Steamboats
• The Erie Canal• Railroads• Telegraph• The Rise of the
West• The Cotton
Kingdom• Slave Trade
EconomyTransformed
Market Society• Commercial Farmers• Growth of cities• Factory system• The Industrial Worker• Growth of Immigration• Irish and German
Newcomers• Rise of Nativism• Corporate form of
business
REASONS for immigration:
• famine
• Jobs
• opportunity
• persecution
The Free Individual
• The West (Manifest Destiny-O’Sullivan)• Transcendentalists• Individualism• The Second Great Awakening• The Awakening's Impact
Limits of Prosperity
• New Middle class• Race and opportunity• Cult of Domesticity• Women and Work• Early Labor Movement
The Rise of Individual
• Voting• Democracy in
America• Information• Women• Segregation• Race and Class
Nationalism• The American System
• Banks and Money• Panic of 1819• Missouri Controversy• Slavery Question
US in the 1820s• Monroe Doctrine• Election of 1824• The nationalism of John
Quincy Adams
• Growth of the Democratic party
Age of Jackson
• Party system• Democrats and Whigs• South Carolina and
the Nullification Crisis– Calhoun's political
theory– Daniel Webster
• Indian Removal• The Bank War• Panic of 1837
Van Buren in officeOK
Depression
Independent treasury
Election of 1840
William Henry Harrison dies in office