TAV Chapter 5

TAV Chapter 5

Growth and Division1816-1832

AMERICAN NATIONALISMChapter 5 Section 1

Jackson Invades Florida

• Sec. of War, John C. Calhoun ordered Jackson into FL to stop raids by the Seminoles

• Took St. Marks and Pensacola and removed their leaders

• Adam-Onis Treaty – Spain ceded all of FL to the US.

The Monroe Doctrine

• Declared that the US would not allow European powers to set up colonies in the Americas.

EARLY INDUSTRYChapter 5 Section 2

Erie Canal

• Connected the Hudson River to Lake Erie– 363 miles long– Began in 1817 and ended 1825

National Road

• From Cumberland, Maryland to Vandalia, IL

Steam Engines

• Boats• Trains

Industrial Revolution

• Began in G.B. in the mid 1700’s• The use of complex machines to do work.

Free Enterprise System

• Based on private property rights • Est. capital and use it to create more

Samuel Slater

• 1789, Pawtucket, Rhode Island• Received funding from Moses Brown to build

a water frame.• Used to create thread from raw cotton

Lowell System

• Francis C. Lowell introduced the mass production of cotton goods in his factories.

• Workers had company housing• Mainly women and children

Eli Whitney

• Cotton Gin• Interchangeable parts for making guns

Samuel Morse

• Morse code • Sending out messages over long distances• 1844, Washington to Baltimore- “What hath

God wrought?”

Labor Unions

• Organizing• Strikes

Northern Cities

• Factories• Polution

Farms

THE LAND OF COTTONChapter 5 Section 3

The Southern Economy

• Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793– Removed seeds from the cotton– 1lb a day by hand to 1,000 lb a day with cotton gin

• Increased the need for slave labor

Southern Industry

• Coal• Iron• Salt• Copper• Some ironworks and textiles

Southern Society

• Yeoman Farmers were the regular farmers who did not have a lot of money. – Many only had around 4 slaves– Majority did not own any slaves

• The majority of Southerners did not own slaves

• Planters were the wealthy land owners in the South

Slavery

• On some farms they practiced the task system.– Slaves were given specific jobs to do and when

they were done they were done working for the day. Loose approach

• Larger plantations used the gang system to make the slaves work in large groups.

GROWING SECTIONALISMChapter 5 Section 4

Missouri Compromise

• Maine admitted as a free state• Missouri admitted as a slave state• No slavery above 36-30 or in Louisiana

Territory

Election of 1824

• Jackson won the majority vote but not the E.C.• John Quincy Adams won by making a “corrupt

bargain” w. Henry Clay. • Clay received appt to Sec. of State• Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson were

Democratic-Republicans but after Clay threw his support to Adams the group split.– Clay formed the National Republicans– Jackson the Democrats