History - American history Writing assignment 2

Lecture Slides Give Me Liberty! Seventh Edition

Eric Foner, Lisa McGirr, and Kathleen DuVal

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CHAPTER 10

Democracy in America, 1815– 1840

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• The Triumph of Democracy • Nationalism and Its Discontents • Nation, Section, and Party • The Age of Jackson • Indian Removal • The Bank War and After

The Triumph of Democracy

 Focus Question: Whom did the flourishing democracy of the early mid-nineteenth century include, and whom did it leave out?

Expanding Democracy

• Property and Democracy • Tocqueville on Democracy

“King Andrew the First”

Justice’s Court in the Back Woods

Triumph Curbed

• The Information Revolution • The Limits of Democracy

Democracy and Whiteness

• A Racial Democracy • Race and class

Nationalism and Its Discontents

 Focus Question: What efforts strengthened or hindered the economic integration of the nation?

Nationalism and the Second Bank of the United States

• The American System • Banks and Money

The Campaign of 1824

1819

• The Panic of 1819 • McCulloch v. Maryland

The Slavery Debate

• The Missouri Controversy • The Missouri Compromise • The slavery question

The Missouri Compromise, 1820

The House of Representatives, 1822

Nation, Section, and Party

 Focus Question: What were the major areas of conflict between nationalism and sectionalism?

Revolutions in the Western Hemisphere

• The United States and the Latin American Wars of Independence

• The Monroe Doctrine

1824

• The Election of 1824 • Sectionalism • Andrew Jackson • John Quincy Adams

The Presidential Election of 1824

Nationalism

• The Nationalism of John Quincy Adams • “Liberty Is Power”

John Quincy Adams

1828

• Martin Van Buren and the Democratic Party • The Election of 1828

The Old Democrat

The Presidential Election of 1828

The Age of Jackson

 Focus Question: In what ways did Andrew Jackson embody the contradictions of democratic nationalism?

Jackson’s Presidency

• The Party System • Democrats and Whigs

Procession of Victuallers

Public and Private

• Public and Private Freedom • Politics and morality

The States’ Rights Debate

• South Carolina and Nullification • The Nullification Crisis

Indian Removal

 Focus Question: Why did Indian Removal happen, and how did Native nations respond?

Indian Removal (Cont.)

• Native Responses • Remaining in the East

Andrew Jackson and William Weatherford

Sequoia

The Last of the Race

Nineteenth-Century Indian Removals

William Apess

The Bank War and After

 Focus Question: How did the Bank War influence the economy and party competition?

Jackson and the Bank of the United States

• Biddle’s Bank • Bank War • Joseph Biddle • Power of the veto

The Downfall of Mother Bank

1837

• Pet Banks, the Economy, and the Panic of 1837

1840

• The Election of 1840 • John Tyler – the “accidental president”

“The Almighty Lever”

The Presidential Election of 1840

Review The Triumph of Democracy

Focus Question: Whom did the flourishing democracy of the early mid-nineteenth century include, and whom did it leave out?

Nationalism and Its Discontents Focus Question: What efforts strengthened or hindered the economic integration of the nation?

Nation, Section, and Party Focus Question: What were the major areas of conflict between nationalism and sectionalism?

The Age of Jackson Focus Question: In what ways did Andrew Jackson embody the contradictions of democratic nationalism?

Indian Removal Focus Question: Why did Indian Removal happen, and how did Native nations respond?

The Bank War and After Focus Question: How did the Bank War influence the economy and party competition?

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Chapter 11: The Peculiar Institution • The Old South • Life under Slavery • Slave Culture • Resistance to Slavery

This concludes the Norton Lecture Slide Set for Chapter 10 Give Me Liberty! AN AMERICAN HISTORY SEVENTH EDITION by Eric Foner, Lisa McGirr, and Kathleen DuVal

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