The Rise of American Nationalism

THE RISE OF AMERICAN NATIONALISM OBJ: TO INVESTIGATE THE SIMULTANEOUS RISE OF NATIONALISM & SECTIONALISM I. ELECTION OF 1808 MADISON: 1ST TIME CONGRESSIONAL GROUP CONTROLLED PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION 122 PINCKNEY (AGAIN) 47 CLINTON 6

FEDERALIST REVIVAL IN HOFR: DOUBLED MADISON: NON-INTERCOURSE INTO EFFECT, GB REACHED OUT BUT. MACONS BILL #2 & NAP. TRAP A. THE WAR OF 1812 & TREATY OF GHENT 1. CAUSES: 1. JEFFERSON & MADISON ECONOMIC DECISIONS NO MILITARY & UNPREPARED, NOT WILLING TO SPEND MONEY 2. WAR HAWKS: SOUTH (CALHOUN) & WEST (CLAY) PUSHED MADISON INTO WAR HES WEAK 3. CANADA & FREEDOM OF THE SEAS 4. BRITISH & NATIVE AMERICAN RELATIONS TECUMSEH & CONFEDERATON OF INDIANS (FAILED); OPPOSED TO SELLING LAND

2. ENTHUSIAMS WANES: 1. CRITICS IN NEW ENGLAND MERCHANTS NEW ENGLAND PROFITS SOAR, SMUGGLING 2. CANADIAN INVASIONS FAILED 3. WASHINGTON BURNED & F.S. KEY 4. DOMESTIC DISSENSION HARTFORD CONVENTION 1814 DEMISE OF FEDERALISTS 3. TREATY OF GHENT: 1. STATUS QUO ANTEBELLUM 2. ANGLO-AMERICAN RAPPROACHMENT 3. N.AM. BIG LOSERS LAND SET ASIDE FOR THEM 4. END OF THE FEDERALISTS B. THE FRUITS OF VICTORY

COMPLETION OF TREATY- 200YRS OF FRIENDSHIP RUSH-BAGOT TREATY 1817 DEMILITARIZE GREAT LAKES CONVENTION 1818SETTLE BORDER OF LA. PURCHASE AT 49TH ADAMS-ONIS OR TRANSCONTINENTAL TREATY W/ SPAIN 1819 CEDE FLORIDA, PACIFIC BOUNDARY @ 42ND, $5MILL TO US CITIZENS W/ CLAIMS AGAINST SPAIN (RE: TERRITORY) II. ELECTION 1816 & THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS JAMES MONROE - REPUBLICAN RUFUS KING - FEDERALIST

WAR OVER, FEDS SHOT THEMSELVES IN THE FOOT REPUBLICANS COMANDEERED BANK, TARIFFS BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS MONROES NEW ENGLAND TOUR NATIONAL TOUR & LAFAYETTE 1824 AMERICAN ARTS & LETTERS *J.F. COOPER 1ST AMERICAN NOVELIST *WASHINGTON IRVING LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW *PARSON WEEMS GW & CHERRY TREE A. HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL T. COLE THE OXBOW & SAVAGE STATE

THEMES: DISCOVERY, EXPLORATION & SETTLEMENT INFLUENCED BY ROMANTICISM NATURE LANDSCAPES, BEAUTY OF AMERICA CONTEMPORARIES EMERSON, THOREAU BEGUN 1825 2ND WAVE 1848 F. CHURCH: AURORA BOREALIS B. TURNER THESIS: FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER 1893 ULTIMATE OUTGROWTH OF HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL & ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS 1893 AMERICAN DEMOCRACY DEVELOPED AS PEOPLE MOVED WEST WEST OFFERED: SPACE, EQUALITY, INDIVIDUALISM, LOVE OF LIBERTY CRITICS: INDIVIDUALISM LEADS TO ANARCHY EQUALITY & FREEDOM INCOMPATIBLE. WHY? SLAVERY, RACE, NATIVE AMERICANS ALFRED JACOB MILLER CARAVAN EN ROUTE C. MONROE & A NEW POLITICAL ERA GOOD TIME TO BE PRESIDENT EUROPE AT PEACE 1814-1914 ECONOMIC GROWTH, EXPANSION WEST,

LIBERTY FLOURISHED SUPPORTED FEDERALIST POLICIES BANK & TARIFF CABINET COMPROMISE-D. TOMPKINS V.P. (NY) A. J.Q. ADAMS (MA) STATE, VA DYNASTY OVER B. WM. CRAWFORD TREASURY (SOUTHERNER) C. JOHN C. CALHOUN - WAR (S. C. ) D. WM WIRT ATTY GENERAL (VA) D. CLAYS AMERICAN SYSTEM A SYMBOL OF HARMONY OR SIGN OF DISCORD? BANK, TARIFF, & INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS FOSTER NATIONAL MARKET ECONOMY

BANK OF UNITED STATES 1816 CHARTER SUPPLY STATE BANKS CONTROL INFLATION TARIFF GOVERNMENT REVENUE ISOLATION PROTECT N.E. & WESTERN CROPS SOUTHERNERS OPPOSED INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS LET US BIND THE NATION TOGETHER TRANSPORTATION NECESSARY FOR UNITY J.C.C. CHANGED TUNE 1. 2ND BANK OF THE U. S.

MADISON LET CHARTER LAPSE 1811 STATE BANKS TOOK OVER RECKLESSLY WAR PANIC, RUNS ON BANKS, SPECIE SUSPENDED EXCEPT IN NEW ENGLAND PAPER MONEY COLLAPSED 2. TARIFF 1816 (MADISON) CONGRESS CHARTERS 2ND BANK 1816 PANIC 1819 BANK SURVIVED AT DEPOSITORS EXPENSE LAND TENSIONS ENSUE PRICES DROPPED, IMMIGRATION

SLOWED, WESTERN DEBTORS HARD PRESSED LIMITED TO ASSIST IN DEFICIT DALLAS TARIFF ALL AGREED WE NEED MONEY NO CONSENSUS ON HOW OPPOSED COMMERCE (SHIPPERS) & AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS (PLANTERS) SUPPORT WEST & MANUFACTURERS SOUTH CHANGED TUNE FIERCELY OPPOSED TO IMPRESSMENT, FEAR OF ANOTHER BRITISH CONFLICT, TEMPORARY & COTTON, WOOL & IRON ALL IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST AND THEN TARIFF OF 1828 3. NATIONALISMS NEMESIS: SECTIONALISM TARIFF, B.U.S., LAND HAD SECTIONAL TENSIONS BUT WORKED OUT WELL ENOUGH SLAVERY HOWEVER.

MISSOURI ADMISSION TALLMADGE AMENDMENT MAINE ADMISSION MISSOURI COMPROMISE 1820 4. FOREIGN POLICY & NATIONALISM RUSH BAGOT TREATY 1817 CONVENTION 1818 ADAMS-ONIS OR TRANSCONTINENTAL TREATY 1819 MONROE DOCTRINE 1823 GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT & POLICY WORK MAINLY OF J.Q. ADAMS 2 ISSUES: 1) RUSSIAN ACTIVITIES IN N.W. 2) EUROPEAN COLONIES IN L.A.

1) SIGNED TREATY 1824 W/ RUSSIA; N.W. OPEN TO FISHING 2) MONROE DOCTRINE III. ELECTION OF 1824 CORRUPT BARGAIN SECTIONAL INTERESTS REPRESENTED JOHN QUINCY ADAMS ANDREW JACKSON WILLIAM CRAWFORD HENRY CLAY 1 PARTY LACKED DISCIPLINE PARTY CAUCUS CHOSE CRAWFORD

CRAWFORD OUT ELECTION WENT TO HOUSE POPULAR VOTE TO JAX CLAY DROPPED OUT, SUPPORTED JQA AJ FURIOUS CORRUPT BARGAIN