1. 7.2 Nationalism at Center Stage

2. 5 mph
133 feet long
18 feet wide

3. - Life on the Mississippi
STEAMBOAT PILOT
When I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village on the west bank of the Mississippi River. That was, to be a steamboatman. We had transient ambitions of other sorts, but they were only transient. When a circus came and went, it left us all burning to become clowns; the first negro minstrel show that came to our section left us all suffering to try that kind of life; now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. These ambitions faded out, each in its turn; but the ambition to be a steamboatman always remained.
- Life on the Mississippi

4. Influence of Nationalism on the Nation’s Courts
Fulton and Livingston given charter from NY legislature river boat trade. They had exclusive rights to operate steamboats on NY’s river. - Monopoly
• They granted license to others
• Ogden got NY to NJ
• Gibbons came along doing the same
• Ogden sues Gibbons saying Gibbons is illegal
• Gibbons vs. Ogden:
o Supreme Court declares Ogden wrong – only federal gov’t regulate interstate trade (cell phones)
o Again national over state
also favors competition over monopoly

5. Influence of Nationalism on the Nation’s Courts
McCulloch vs. Md
• Md tried to run National Bank of US out of business by taxing it
• J. Marshall and SC says states can’t tax only federal can (power to tax is power to destroy) even within their own state
If Marshall allowed this then states would be overturning laws passed by Congress
• BUS is constitutional

6. Influence of Nationalism on the Nation’s Courts
Fletcher v Peck
Georgia law violated individuals’ rights to enter a contract
Earlier Georgia state congress had granted an sweetheart of a real estate contract to “friends” regarding western lands. Those Congressmen took bribes in exchange for those frontier lands.
This “Yazoo grant” infuriated voters (propertied white males) in Ga. Election and most of those particular state Congressmen not re-elected
New state Congress men promptly took back that Yazoo land grant.
Those real estate friends who had gotten land under the original Yazoo grant sued the state of Ga. Said you can’t take back our contract rights. A contract is a contract.
J. Marshall said a contract was a contract and that included state contracts. The next legislature couldn’t take that contract away.
States beholden to the Constitution and its laws too!

7. Influence of Nationalism on the Nation’s Courts
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
State of NH cannot revise the original charter of the college given in colonial times by the state itself.
Charter is a contract and Consitution does not allow states to interfer with contracts.
So consider: How did the SC’s rulings strenghthen the federal gov’ts control over the economy?
How did the SC limit the power of the states?
In what ways did the SC boost Federal power?
How

8. Nationalism Shapes Foreign Policy
Nationalism - the belief that national concerns should be placed ahead of regional concersn or the interests of other countries
Under Monroe the Secretary of State John Quincy Adams secures:
1. establishes security of the nation
2. expands the nation’s territory

9. Nationalism Shapes Foreign Policy
Nationalism - the belief that national concerns should be placed ahead of regional concerns or the interests of other countries
1.Rush Bagot Treaty reduces military ships of Grt Britain on the Grt Lakes
eventually border b/w 2 countries is demilitarized

10. Nationalism Shapes Foreign Policy
Nationalism - the belief that national concerns should be placed ahead of regional concerns or the interests of other countries
2.Convention of fixed the northern border of the US at 49th parallel
later reaches compromose w/GB - joint occupation of Oregon for 10 years
49th parallel

11. Nationalism Shapes Foreign Policy
Nationalism - the belief that national concerns should be placed ahead of regional concerns or the interests of other countries
3.Adams- Onis Treaty Spain, too weak to protect New World interests, ceded Florida to US
also gives up any claim to Oregon

12. Nationalism Shapes Foreign Policy
4. Monroe Doctrine
Sp and Portugal defeat Napoleaon in Tried to regain LA territories.
Russia - in Alaska begins to establish trading posts in California territories
US must do something!
Russian incursion poses threat to US profitable trade with China!
Many Americans want Cuba and northern Mexico
What will James Monroe do?

13. Monroe Doctrine
warns all outside powers not to interfere w/ affairs in the Western Hemisphere
do not try to estb colonies here
do not try to overthrow newly created independent republics in this hemisphere
if you try to do this we will consider it “dangerous to our peace and safety”
We promise to stay out of European affairs and they must promise not to interfere with existing status quo in Western Hemisphere
a.k.a. we will stay out of your backyard if you stay out of ours

15. Nationalism Pushes America West
Settlers busy moving into NW Territory: Ohio - Indiana - Illinois - Wisconsin _ Michigan

16. Nationalism Pushes America West
Why go west?
1. escape debts
2. escape the law
3. searching for economic gain (land is cheap!)
4. social gains; easy to change status/occupations

17. Nationalism Pushes America West
What is the legislation on becoming a state?
NW Ordinance of 1787

18. Nationalism Pushes America West
1819 Missiouri reaches pop. of 60,000 and applies for statehood
TROUBLE!
up until then had 10 free and 10 slave states
NOW WHAT?
Illinois admitted as free state
Alabama is admitted as slave state NOW WHAT!

19. Nationalism Pushes America West
1820 Missiouri’s status is critical to the balance of power b/t free and slave states (in Congress)...
there is talk of civil war (clue: real civil war begins 1860)
Henry Clay to the rescue with a compromise

20. Nationalism Pushes America West
Maine admitted free/ Missouri admitted slave
the rest of the Louisiana Territory was split into 2 spheres of interest (slave and free)
dividing line
north of this is free
south of this is slave