1. Unit 4 Review

2. Key Concept 4.1
The United States developed the world’s first modern mass democracy and celebrated a new national culture, while Americans sought to define the nation’s democratic ideals and to reform its institutions to match them.

3. Key Concept 4.2
Developments in technology, agriculture, and commerce precipitated profound changes in U.S. settlement patterns, regional identities, gender and family relations, political power, and distribution of consumer goods.

4. Key Concept 4.3
U.S. interest in increasing foreign trade, expanding its national borders, and isolating itself from European conflicts shaped the nation’s foreign policy and spurred government and private initiatives.

5. The U.S. defined itself as a nation during this period
Rapid demographic, economic and territorial growth
Development of mass democracy
Birth of a new national culture
Creation of a market economy
Advancements in industry and transportation
Development of new reform movements

6. Conflict with Native Americans
Nativism and Anti-foreignism
Native Americans, African Americans and women were not included in the new democracy

7. Jefferson “The Revolution of 1800” Louisiana Purchase Barbary Pirates
Lewis and Clark Expedition ( )
Increased geographic and scientific knowledge of the region; better claim to Oregon territory
Barbary Pirates
Embargo Act (1807)

8. The War of 1812
Non-intercourse Act (1809) and Macon’s Bill No. 2 (1810)
War Hawks
Democratic-Republicans in Congress
Many from the frontier states
Wanted war with Britain- defend American honor; gain Canada; remove Indian threat on frontier
Hartford Convention
The Treaty of Ghent

9. The Era of Good Feelings
Federalist Party collapsed
James Monroe President
1816 to about 1819
Issues such as tariff and sectionalism still existed

10. The Rise of the Common Man
By the 1820s
Shift to universal manhood suffrage
Many states eliminated property requirements for voting
States began to allow voters to choose representatives to the Electoral College as opposed to state legislatures

11. Reform Influenced by Second Great Awakening
Belief that humans could achieve perfectionism
Reformers looked to influence politics at the local, state and national level

12. Temperance Abolition Prisons Asylums
Maine prohibited sale of alcohol in 1851
Other states passed similar laws
Abolition
Prisons
Asylums

13. Utopian Societies
Some people sought to remove themselves from society and establish communal societies (both religious and non-religious) that would be more perfect
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons)
Founded by Joseph Smith and later led by Brigham Young

14. Transcendentalists Influenced by European Romanticism
Emphasis on connection between man and nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau- “On Civil Disobedience”- advocated passive resistance as a form of protest