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Chapter 1 - 'Men Prone to Wonder': America Before 1600 Chapter 2 - The European Settlement of North America: The Atlantic Coast to 1660 Chapter 3 - Empires: 1660-1702 Chapter 4 - Benjamin Franklin's World: Colonial North America, 1702-1763 Chapter 5 - Toward Independence, 1764-1783 Chapter 6 - Inventing the American Republic: The States Chapter 7 - Inventing the American Republic: The Nation Chapter 8 - Establishing the New Nation Chapter 9 - The Fabric of Change, 1800-1815 Chapter 10 - A New Epoch: 1815-1828 Chapter 11 - Political Innovation in a Mechanical Age: 1828-1840 Chapter 12 - Worker Worlds in Antebellum America Chapter 13 - The Benevolent Empire: Religion and Reform, 1825-1846 Chapter 14 - National Expansion, Sectional Division: 1839-1850 Chapter 15 - A House Dividing: 1851-1860 Chapter 16 - Civil War: 1861-1865 Chapter 17 - Reconstruction, 1865-1877 Chapter 18 - The Rise of Big Business and the Triumph of Industry: 1870-1900 Chapter 19 - An Industrial Society: 1870-1910 Chapter 20 - Politics, Industrialism, and the State: 1876-1900 Chapter 21 - A New Place in the World: 1865-1914 Chapter 22 - The Progressive Era Chapter 23 - War, Prosperity, and the Metropolis: 1914-1929 Chapter 24 - The New Deal Chapter 25 - Whirlpool of War Chapter 26 - Fighting for Freedom Chapter 27 - From Hot War to Cold War Chapter 28 - Korea, Eisenhower, and Affluence Chapter 29 - Renewal of Reform Chapter 30 - Years of Rage Chapter 31 - Conservative Revival Chapter 32 - The Reagan Revolution Chapter 33 - Inventing a New Order
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CHAPTER OUTLINE

CHAPTER OUTLINE

  1. Population Change
    1. Westward Movement
    2. Immigration
      1. Northwestern Europe: England, Ireland, Germany
      2. Packet lines
      3. New York City
  2. The Madisonian Platform
    1. Military Reform: The Uniformity System
      1. National armories
      2. U.S. Army Ordnance Department
      3. Interchangeable parts
        1. Simeon North
        2. John H. Hall
        3. Springfield National Armory
        4. Harpers Ferry National Armory
        5. armory practice
      4. U.S. Military Academy at West Point (1802)
        1. Secretary of War John Calhoun
        2. Superintendent Sylvanus Thayer
      5. War Department
      6. Post Office
    2. Banking Reform
      1. Expiration of First Bank of the United States (1811)
      2. Second Bank of the United States (1816)
    3. Tariff Protection for Manufacturers
      1. Tariff of 1816
      2. Henry Clay’s "American System"
        1. protective tariffs, internal improvements, national bank
        2. activist federal government as catalyst for economic growth
    4. Internal Improvements
      1. Calhoun’s Bonus Bill (1817)
      2. Madison’s veto of federally funded internal improvements
      3. Monroe’s support for improvements of national impact
      4. Army Corps of Engineers
      5. General Survey Act of 1824
  3. Sectionalism and Nationalism
    1. Panic of 1819
      1. The "Monster Bank"
      2. State stay laws
      3. Working Men’s Party
    2. Missouri Compromise (1820)
      1. Tallmadge Amendment
      2. Clay’s compromise
        1. Missouri entered Union as slave state
        2. Maine entered Union as free state
        3. slavery prohibited in territories north of 36 degrees 30’ latitude
    3. John Quincy Adams, Monroe’s Secretary of State (1817–25)
      1. Goals
        1. territorial expansion
        2. independence of emerging Latin American republics
        3. security against British economic and military threat
        4. U.S. participation in Latin American trade
      2. Anglo-American Convention of 1818
        1. boundary with Canada at 49th parallel
        2. joint occupation of Oregon Territory
      3. Florida
        1. Seminole Indians
        2. Andrew Jackson’s invasion of Spanish Florida
        3. Transcontinental Treaty/Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)
          1. Spanish cession of Florida
          2. 42nd parallel as northern boundary of Spanish claims
      4. Spanish Claims Commission (1821)
        1. Senator Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and the Boston Associates
        2. Merrimack Manufacturing Company (1822)
        3. Hamilton Manufacturing Company (1825)
        4. Boston and Lowell Railroad (1830)
      5. The Monroe Doctrine (1823)
        1. Holy Alliance: Russia, Prussia, Austria
        2. Russian claim to Pacific Northwest
        3. principles
          1. noncolonization: no more European colonies in America
          2. isolation: American neutrality in European wars
          3. nonintervention: no European intervention in Western Hemisphere
  4. The Election of 1824
    1. Four Sectional Candidates
      1. John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts: Monroe’s secretary of state
      2. William Crawford of Georgia: Monroe’s secretary of the treasury
      3. Henry Clay of Kentucky: Speaker of the House
      4. Andrew Jackson of Tennessee: American military hero
    2. Deadlock in the Electoral College
      1. Clay’s support for Adams in the House of Representatives
      2. The "Corrupt Bargain"
    3. Presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825–29)
      1. Adams’s "federative fraternity"
      2. Rise of popular politics and resurgence of states’ rights
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