Unit 2: From Making a Revolution to Making a Nation - 1763 to 1830s

 

Topics Covered in the Class for Reading Quiz F on Essential Transformations: What Changed from 1800 to 1840  

We are not covering all of the content in chapters 8, 9 and 10.

  1. We will cover:

§         How the prior sections (New England, Middle Colonies, and the South) changed

§         How the new United States moved west creating both:
- nationalism and sectionalism (two t

  1. We will also cover what changed from 1800 to 1840 on these issues in this order:

§         Slavery and Revolution: How the support of revolutions by the United States (Monroe Doctrine) in the 1800-1823 period shifted to comparative silence on revolutions because of slaves revolting against their masters

§         Land and Slavery and the Republic: How gaining land was nationalistic, but planters trying to take their slaves to the new territories was sectionalistic, including the political balance at the time of the Missouri Compromise

§         Land and Indians and Military Heroes: How gaining land forced out Native Americans in the North in the 1800-1820 period and in the South in the 1820-1830s period, including how these events (plus foreign policy) created military heroes

§         Land and Suffrage Plus: How gaining land and related issues led to universal white male suffrage, but the volatility of sectionalism led to political parties seeking military heroes as candidates
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§         Rise of power of the national/central government, of corporations and contracts, and—with the exception of the Cherokee case—of the Supreme Court

§         Shifts in political parties in response to the things above, including away from what’s sometimes called economic nationalism

§         Return of secession and nullification—but for very different reasons from the early period

 

 

 

 

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