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Chapter 5: The Young Republic;

Sections 1 and 2

Bell Workp. 191

Native American Removal MapAnswer the 2 questions


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Transportation

National Road First majortransportation project by the federalgovernment

Steamboats

Robert Fulton creates TheClermont

Makes upstream travel easier

Iron Horse

Peter Cooper creates Tom Thumb

People complained that it wasnoisy and unhealthy

Probably the biggest contributor towestward expansion


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Industrial Revolution

Characteristics

Hand tools Machines

Artisans Organized workforce

Shops Factories

Local National and international

Examples of Industrialization in the United States

Eli Whitney invents interchangeable parts for gun manufacturing (early 1800s)

Samuel F. B. Morse perfects the telegraph and invents Morse code (1832)

Immigrant labor nativist societies Greater work opportunities for women in factories and publishing industry

Creation of labor unions who organized strikes which was declared illegal by theSupreme Court in Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842)


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Agriculture

Cotton = top cash crop

Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin in 1793 (p.182)

Production goes from 6,000 bales in 1792 to 100,000 bales in 1801

Slavery

Congress outlawed foreign slave trade in 1808

Task system allowed some slave free time to be artisans, keep gardens, or hunt

Gang system forced cotton slaves to work sunup to sundown

A driver was put in charge of the gang

Nat Turner enslaved minister

Believed he was chosen to lead his people from bondage (think Exodus)

Led a slave rebellion August 22, 1831 that killed more than 50 white people

Caught October 30 and was quickly tried and hung


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John Quincy Adams

#6 (1825-1829) 1824 Election No majority in electoral college so

decision goes to the House ofRepresentatives

Henry Clay is fourth and thus eliminated,so he takes his position as Speaker of theHouse

Adams wins and makes Clay theSecretary of State

Jackson cries foul and accuses Adams ofa corrupt bargain

Few accomplishments

States expand voting rights and tripleeligible voters

Adams and Jackson resort to mudslinging,or personal attacks, in 1828


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Andrew Jackson

#7 (1829-1837) Old Hickory Jackson used the spoils system, promoting

people based on loyalty and support

Upset about the tariff of 1828, SouthCarolina threatened to secede from the

union

John C. Calhoun advocated nullification(neither worked)

1830 - Indian Removal Act

Supreme Court upheld NativeAmerican land rights in 2 cases

Jackson said, now let himenforce it, and Van Burenordered the army to begin theTrail of Tears

Jackson withdrew government money fromthe National Bank killing it and causingfuture economic instability


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Martin Van Buren

#8 (1837-1841) Whig Party emerges proposing

stronger federal government andcentralized economy, butJackson's popularity boosts VanBuren to the presidency instead

Before leaving office, Jacksonpasses Specie Circular whichmandated that all payments to thefederal government be in gold orsilver

Lack of a paper economy Panicof 1837 which Van Buren did littleto help since he wanted smallerfederal government

Tippecanoe and Tyler too win in1840

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