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

Election of 1828

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