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Democracy in a New Nation
American Studies
Dr. Weiselberg
Unit Outline
The Louisiana Purchase, 1803
Thomas Jefferson
"Empire of Liberty"
Napoleon Bonaparte
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
The Corps of Discovery St. Louis
Meriwether Lewis Missouri River
William Clark Snake River
Sacajawea Columbia River
Charbonneau Fort Mandan
York Fort Clatsop
Nez Perce Oregon Territory
Chinook Pacific Ocean
Cascade Mountains Rocky Mountains
Mt. Hood
War of 1812
Impressment
Monroe Doctrine
Jacksonian Democracy
Andrew Jackson
"Old Hickory"
Battle of New Orleans
Election of 1824: Jackson and John Quincy Adams, House of Reps decides for Adams
Split of Democratic-Republican Party: Democrats, National Republicans
Election of 1828
The Spoils System
Rotation of the cabinet, "to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy."
Inauguration party
"Kitchen Cabinet"
Indian Removal
Five Civilized Tribes: Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole
John Ross
Sequoyah
Tecumseh, War of 1812, Pan-Indian movement
Indian Removal Act, 1830
Worcester v. Georgia, 1832
Domestic, dependent nations
"John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it."
Trail of Tears, 1838
Indian Territory (Oklahoma)
Women's Rights
Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I a woman?"
Declaration of Sentiments, "All men and women were created equal."
Slavery
Conditions
Frederick Douglass
Turner's Rebellion
Responses/actions available to slaves (examples of "agency"):
Resistance
Gabriel Prosser's conspiracy, 1800
Denmark Vesey's plans, 1822
Nat Turner's Rebellion, 1831
Escape
Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman
Abolitionism
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852.
William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, 1831
Western Expansion
Florida, Adams-Onis Treaty, 1819
Manifest Destiny
John L. O'Sullivan
Santa Fe Trail
Oregon Trail, 1836
Independence, MO to Portland (Oregon City), OR
Oregon, 1846
Mormonism
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Joseph Smith, 1827
Nauvoo Massacre
Brigham Young
Deseret
Salt Lake City, 1847
Mountain Meadows Massacre
Polygamy
Texan Independence
Mexican independence, 1821
Stephen F. Austin
Sam Houston
Anglos
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
The Alamo, 1836
Texas, 1845
The Mexican-American War, 1846-1848
James K. Polk, pro-slavery, pro-expansion
Bear Flag Republic, 1846 (California, 1850)
John C. Fremont
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, 1848
Gadsden Purchase, 1853
California Gold Rush, 1849
Sutter's Mill
San Francisco
Sierra Nevada
The Market Revolution
Steamships
Robert Fulton, the Clermont, 1807
The Erie Canal, 1825
Railroads, Steam engines
Baltimore and Ohio, 1828
Samuel F. B. Morse
Telegraph, 1844
Midwest, farming
John Deere, steel plow
Cyrus McCormick, reaper
New England, industry
Textile mills
Samuel Slater
Lowell, MA
strikes
The South, agriculture
Eli Whitney, Cotton gin (cotton "engine"), 1793
The Cotton Kingdom
American "Culture"
Mark Twain Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836
Ralph Waldo Emerson Hudson River School
Henry David Thoreau George Inness
Herman Melville Albert Bierstadt
Nathaniel Hawthorne Thomas Moran
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