Unit 2: From Making a Revolution to Making a Nation -
1763 to 1830s |
We are not
covering all of the content in chapters 8, 9 and 10.
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How the prior
sections (New England, Middle Colonies, and the South) changed
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How the new
United States moved west creating both:
- nationalism and sectionalism (two t
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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
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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
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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
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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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information to help you understand how voting worked and led to universal white
male suffrage (all white males vote) by about 1828.
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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
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Shifts in
political parties in response to the things above, including away from what’s
sometimes called economic nationalism
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Return of
secession and nullification—but for very different reasons from the early
period
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