A struggle for Equality

ANTEBELLUM REFORMS AND COMPROMISES

Native Americans were forced out west by who? What was the name of the path they took? Describe their journey?

STARTER – OCTOBER 23RD

JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY

Spoils System Rules like a king Claimed to be

common man Indian Removal

Act Overruled

Worchester v. Georgia

Destroyed the BUS (Bank of US)

Set up “pet banks”

Caused the Panic of 1837

Tariff of Abominations

Sent federal troops to SC to end nullification crisis

Slavery States’ rights

Important Court Cases that Strengthen the Federal Government

Marbury v. Madison McCulloch v. Maryland: said the power

to tax is the power to destroy, said the state of Maryland could not tax the BUS

TWO MAJOR ISSUES BY 1850

Adams-Onis: US got Florida and Oregon from Spain

Monroe Doctrine: warned European powers that the US considered the Western Hemisphere within its sphere of influence

Missouri Compromise: 1820, attempt to solve slavery problem, Maine was admitted as free state and Missouri as a slave state, line drawn at 36’30’, all south was slave and all north was free

COMPROMISES AND TREATIES

GROWING SECTIONAL CONFLICT

Missouri Compromise (1820)

Missouri = slave state

Maine = free state

No slavery in rest of La. Purchase north of 36’30

Effects:

Maintained balance of power between North (free states) & South (slave states) in Senate

Continued two-tiered westward expansion

Left little room for slavery to expand (Arkansas Territory)

Missouri Compromise

Abolitionism – argument against slavery. Harriet Tubman and the Underground

Railroad. Frederick Douglas Nat Turner: led first slave rebellion in

America Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s

Cabin, depicted evils of slavery, increases tension between North and South.

Southern economy dependent on slavery.

Eli Whitney’s cotton gin: increased slavery in the South because more slaves were needed to pick the cotton

SLAVERY AND ABOLITIONISM

MISSOURI COMPROMISE

Ruled that slaves were property and had no right to sue in court

Said that Congress had no power to deny slavery in new territories

Declared Missouri Compromise unconstitutional

DRED SCOTT V. SANFORD

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony.

Women’s Rights: Seneca Falls, NY met to discuss suffrage, wrote “Declaration of Sentiments” which said “all men and women are created equal”.

A lot of women during this era were supporters of the Temperance Movement.

Second Great Awakening

WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT

Horace Man: education reform.

Dorothea Dix: prison and insane Asylum reform.

EDUCATION AND PRISON REFORM

Transition from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, improved efficiency of water power, the increasing use of steam power and the development of machine tools.

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION