StudySpace: Inventing America, 2 ed.

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1. American Growth
   1. Population Growth
   2. Port Cities
   3. Agriculture
   4. Westward Movement
   5. Manufacturing and Transportation
   6. Science
2. Thomas Jefferson's Republic
   1. Principles
      1. Invention
      2. Distrust of cities and manufacturing
      3. Reverence for "freehold agriculture"
      4. The "empire of liberty": expansion
      5. Slavery
   2. Policies
      1. Economic plan
         1. Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin
         2. reduction in size and power of national government
         3. retirement of national debt
         4. smaller, gunboat navy
         5. smaller army
      2. Judiciary
         1. Federalist stronghold
         2. Judiciary Act of 1801 and the "midnight appointments"
         3. repeal of Judiciary Act of 1801
         4. removal of Judge John Pickering
         5. impeachment of Supreme Court justice Samuel Chase
         6. Chief Justice John Marshall
            1. Marbury v. Madison (1803)
            2. precedent for judicial review
      3. The Louisiana Purchase (1803)
         1. safety valve
         2. French reacquisition of Louisiana from Spain
         3. closure of New Orleans to American traffic (1802)
         4. Livingston and Monroe's negotiations with Napoleon
         5. Louisiana Purchase Treaty
      4. Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery (1804-6)
3. Toward War
   1. Decline of the Federalist Party
   2. Napoleonic Wars
      1. Economic warfare
         1. British Orders in Council
         2. Napoleon's decrees
      2. Impressment
   3. The Chesapeake Affair (1807)
   4. Embargo of 1807
      1. Depression and evasion
      2. "Cotton mill fever"
      3. Gallatin's "Report on Roads and Canals" (1808)
         1. the National Road (1806)
         2. Act of Arming and Equipping the Militia (1808)
      4. Impressment
   5. Election of President Madison (1808)
   6. Non-Intercourse Act: Trade with All Nations but Great Britain and France (1809)
   7. Macon's Bill Number Two: Trade with Either Great Britain or France (1810)
   8. Trans-Appalachian Frontier
      1. Jefferson's Indian policy
      2. The Shawnees
         1. Tenskwatawa, the "Prophet"
         2. Tecumseh
      3. William Henry Harrison's Battle of Tippecanoe (1811)
   9. The War Hawks: Henry Clay and John Calhoun
   10. "Mr. Madison's War": The War of 1812 (1812-14)
       1. Battle of the Thames
       2. Creek War
       3. Burning of Washington, D.C.
       4. Battle of Fort McHenry: Francis Scott Key's "Star-Spangled Banner"
       5. Treaty of Ghent (1814)
       6. Andrew Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans (1815)
   11. The Hartford Convention (1814)
   12. Election of 1816: Madison's Reelection and the Virginia Dynasty
4. Machines
   1. Steam Power
      1. Robert Fulton's Clermont (1807)
      2. Oliver Evans's steam engine
      3. the western steamboat
   2. Water Power vs. Steam
   3. Textiles
      1. Boston Manufacturing Company in Waltham, Massachusetts
      2. "Alabama fever"
      3. "King Cotton"
   4. Outwork
   5. Diversification and Specialization

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