Name: ______Period: ______
American Growth and Prosperity: 1817-1825
Georgia Standards:
SSUSH6 The student will analyze the nature of territorial and population growth, and its impact in the early decades of the new nation.
d. Describe the construction of the Erie Canal, the rise of New York City, and the development of the nation’s infrastructure.
e. Describe the reasons for and importance of the Monroe Doctrine.
SSUHS7 Students will explain the process of economic growth, its regional and national impact in the first half of the 19th century, and the different responses to it.
a. Explain the impact the Industrial Revolution as seen in Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin and his development of interchangeable parts for muskets.
b. Describe the westward growth of the United States including the emerging concept of Manifest Destiny.
Essential Questions:
• How did technological improvements led to the beginning of the ______?
• How did ______and develop?
• How did the nation ______in the early 1800’s?
• How did the nation’s ______develop?
• How did the concept of democracy change in America during the early days of the union?
• Why is the ______important?
• How did the ______shape this country’s growth?
Vocabulary
· Erie Canal, Samuel Slater, Moses Brown, James Watt, steam power, Robert Fulton, patents, infrastructure, canal system, Industrial Revolution, Eli Whitney, Cotton gin, interchangeable parts, muskets, Era of good feelings, Calhoun, Clay, Andrew Jackson, Monroe Doctrine, Manifest destiny, Adams-Onis Treaty, capitalist, labor shortage, mass production, McCulloch v. Maryland, Seminole War, labor,
I Economic Growth
1. Industrial Revolution I
• Shift in jobs from ______to factories and machines in more ______areas.
2. Labor Shortage
• Many Americans are moving ______in search of new land.
• Manufacturers forced to acquire ______to be used in factories.
• Manufacturers need to be able to offer better working conditions and higher wages so they can attract ______.
3. Moses Brown
• Finances inventors and businessmen.
• ______is a Person who invests capital (_____) in a business w/ the ______Builds factories, installs machines, and purchases raw materials.
4. Samuel Slater
• 1789- English inventor arrives in America.
• Invents the ______
– Powered by ______
• Factory system- water-powered ______
– Replaces ______
5. Patents are ______
6. ______Commission of the United States created in 1790
• Congress passes law that granted inventors ______for 14 years to all ______made from their ______
• Samuel Hopkins issued the first patent on July 31, 1790.
– Designs a new method of making potash as a chemical substance for soap.
7. James Watt
• 17______inventor.
• Inventor of the ______
• ______power slow to become popular in America due to ______
– Provided enough power to for the nations ______
8. Robert Fulton
• 1793- proposes the building of a ______
• Designs and builds a working steamboat in France in 1797.
– ______
9. 1806- Asks James Watt to build a steam engine for his boat to be sent to New York.
• 1807- Steamboat ______successfully navigates the ______River.
Top speed of 5 knots or 5.8 miles per hour
10. List some 1800-1830 Inventions: ______
11.Eli Whitney / What did he do?Issued a
What is a cotton gin?
Worked with
Proposed what?
What are interchangeable gun parts?
Demonstrates to whom? And what do they do?
II. Transportation and Infrastructure Growth
1. Infrastructure is the ______
• The term typically refers to the technical structures that support a society, such as ______
2. River Transportation
– Flatboats
– Rafts
• Keelboat
– Designed to ______
– Very ______
3. The Erie Canal
• 1798- The ______Company is created for the building of a 363 mile canal to ______
• First section completed in 1819.
• Entire canal completed in 1825.
• ______in the United States.
• Cuts transportation ______by ______
• Makes ______a port to the world for the ______of America and the ______city in the USA
4. Land Transportation
• Very few ______
• Costly, uncomfortable, dangerous, and time consuming.
• Toll roads- private roads that charged a fee to use.
• Transportation slow to reach the rural areas because of small populations.
• ______the transport of goods is ______for the economy of a growing nation
• Solution?
______
5. Albert Gallatin-Secretary of the Treasury
• Proposed that the federal govt. build a ______across the United States.
• National Road also called the ______
– Built in 1811
– Road built from Cumberland, Maryland to Ohio and Later extended to Illinois
III. Political Growth
1. Henry ______
• ______Congressman from Kentucky.
• Impressive orator (talker).
• Represented the interests of the West.
• Tries very hard to keep the country ______
2. John ______
• ______Congressman from ______.
• Powerful emotional speaker.
• Represented the interests of the ______
• Believed in ______
3. Daniel Webster
• ______Congressman from Massachusetts.
• Powerful speaker. Hard to argue with him.
• Represented the interests of ______
• No patience with those who think ______
4. Election of 1816
• Republicans
– James Monroe
• Former Secretary of State to President James Madison.
• Federalists
– Rufus King
• Senator from New York.
• ______wins.
• Last ______
– Only won 3 states.
5. “Era of Good Feelings”
• New era of national life under the administration of James Monroe.
• Parties ______
– Federalist Party disappears.
– Republicans already doing what the Federalists stood for.
6. The American System
• 1816 Republican economic program.
• Named by Henry Clay.
7. McCulloch v. Maryland-about states rights versus national rights
• ______Legislature attempted to ______the Baltimore branch of the ______
• Bank refused.
• 3 issues
– Who has sovereign power to tax : ______
– Does the Constitution give Congress ______?
– Do ______have the right to tax a ______bank?
• ______- Supreme Court Chief Justice makes majority decision.
Answers to the 3 issues
– Since federal govt. was created by the people, it is sovereign.
– Necessary and proper clause allowed for congress to create a national Bank.
– Power to tax would destroy national banks so the states do not get this power.
8. Election of 1820
• Republican
– James Monroe runs for re-election with no opposition.
III. Political Growth: America On Its Own
1. John Quincy Adams
• Secretary of State for James Monroe.
• Makes it a ______to clean up the issues not mentioned in the Treaty of Ghent that ended the War of 1812.
• Promotes the idea that ______in the affairs of North America.
2. The USA’s Issues with Europe and how they are solved at the Convention of 1818:
• Fishing rights in North America• Boundary between the United States and Canada
• Impressment
• Freedom of the seas
• Compensation to slave owners for the War of 1812
3. First Seminole War
• 1816- Andrew Jackson ordered to move troops toward Florida to stop______
• Jackson invades ______and takes several Spanish Forts and killed two British nationals.
• Calls for Jackson’s removal from ______
4. Adams-Onis Treaty
• Between ______
– Gave U.S. all land ______
– Set ______at the Sabine River to the 42nd parallel.
– U.S. purchased ______
5. Issues with Europe
• 1821- Russian Czar warns ships to avoid the Pacific Coast from Alaska south to the 51st parallel.
• America recognizes the new revolutionary governments in Latin America. (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile) that got their independence from Spain but….
• France ______
• American reaction
– Secretary of State John Quincy Adams protests and
– Urges President Monroe to make a ______
6. By 1822 these nations still had colonies in the Americas and tended to interfere in American matters:
– ______(Alaska)
– ______(Canada)
– ______(Cuba)
– France (______)
– Netherlands (______)
7. Monroe Doctrine
• December 2, 1823
• Issued by ______in his address to Congress.
7. Manifest Destiny is “______”
8. A belief that Americans were entitled and destined to spread from sea ______.
A. Assessment Activity: You have made 2 Brain webs, with a template, from me. Today you are going to try your hand at making one on your own about the 4 areas that America grew in during the early 1800’s. Your notes have all the info you need. Make sure to include the following areas/terms in the GO. The center circle will be titled “How the Nation Grew from 1817 to 1825”:
· Erie Canal, Samuel Slater, Moses Brown, James Watt, steam power, Robert Fulton, patents, infrastructure, canal system, Industrial Revolution, Eli Whitney, Cotton gin, interchangeable parts, muskets, New York City. 1800-1825 inventions, / / Era of good feelings, Calhoun, Clay, Webster, Andrew Jackson, Monroe Doctrine, Manifest destiny, Adams-Onis Treaty, capitalist, labor shortage, mass production, McCulloch v. Maryland, Seminole War, labor, national road, James Monroe, American system,B. When you are finished with the Graphic Organizer; read the Articles “Manifest Destiny” and “Women’s Rights in pre-Civil War America” in your reading folder and answer the attached questions. Answers go in your personal reading folder.