Review President James Monroe

AMERICAN SYSTEM

HENRY CLAY’S PLAN

1. Establish protective tariff

2. Establish national bank

3. Improve country’s transportation system

Sectionalism – loyal to your own section of the country rather than the nation

Missouri Compromise Will Missouri be added as a free or slave

state? What about Maine? Henry Clay’s compromise – above 36º 30΄

will be free except Missouri Maine will be admitted as a free state

Monroe Doctrine

issued by James Monroe

1) US would not interfere in European affairs

2) Western Hemisphere was closed to Europe

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Industrial Revolution What is it?

After the war of 1812, the economy was almost transformed and grew rapidly. The need for improved transportation and communication, technological innovation, the rise of the factory system, coupled with mass immigration, transformed the United States into a Industrial Leader.

Factory system Lowell, Massachusetts

textile millsInterchangeable parts – 1798 Eli Whitney

1) made repairs easy2) speed up production3) allowed the use of lower-paid, less skilled workers

INVENTIONSRobert Fulton – steamboat

Clermont 1807Samuel F.B. Morse – telegraph 1837, transmitting signals over a wireJohn Deere – steel plow 1837 Cyrus McCormick – reaper 1831, harvester Eli Whitney – cotton gin 1793- separates fiber from seeds

Cotton gin changed Southern life

1) move westward

2) more cotton was raised

3) Indians moved off their lands

4) demand for slaves

Nat Turner’s slave rebellion

Inventions continuedJames Watt – Steam Engine 1769John Fitch - Steam Boat 1787Peter Cooper – The Tom Thumb 1830 –

1st Am. Steam locomotiveJames Hargreaves – Spinning Jenny

1764- made thread

Inventions continued

Richard Trevithick – Locomotive 1803 – high pressure steam

Samuel Slater – Water Power textile mill 1790

Henry Bessemer – 1855 mass production of steel

Inventions Cont.

National Road – 1839 comp. 1st highway built by fed.govt.

Railroads – 1764Elias Howe - Sewing Machine

1845, used 2 diff. thread sources

National Road – east-west John C. Calhoun – S. Carolina

Canal system

Erie Canal – connected Great Lakes to east

ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS James Monroe

COURT CASES

McCulloch v. Maryland – upheld federal authority over states

Gibbons v. Ogden – federal gov’t regulates interstate commerce