an era of nationalism. focus question how did domestic and foreign policy reflect the nationalism of...
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An Era of Nationalism
Focus Question
• How did domestic and foreign policy reflect the nationalism of the times?
• Protective Tariffs
• Supreme Court decisions that strengthened the national government
• Acquiring Florida
• Monroe Doctrine
• Missouri Compromise
Reading Skill: Understand EffectsNOTE TAKING
Nationalism Shapes Domestic Policy
• Henry Clay
• American System
• Protective tariff
• Build roads and canals to tie the different regions into a harmonious whole
• Reestablish a Bank of US
Nationalism Shapes Domestic Policies
• James Monroe, the nation's fifth president, embarked on a goodwill tour through the North
• A renewal of national unity, called the times the "Era of Good Feelings."
• It was a time of few factional disputes
Nationalism Shapes Domestic Policies
• The spirit of nationalism was apparent in a series of landmark Supreme Court decisions
• Established national supremacy over the states• Extended the nation's boundaries and protected
its shipping and commerce
Marshall and the Supreme Court
• Supreme Court• Headed by Chief Justice
John Marshall• Made several key
decisions that strengthened the federal government
• More than the framers, he molded the development of the Const.
Marshall and the Supreme Court
• The “necessary and proper”, “elastic” clause
• Does a state have the power to tax a branch of the Bank of the United States?
– First tested in McCulloch v. Maryland
• Bank of the US was subject to a tax by the state of Maryland
• The bank manager (McCulloch) refused to pay
• Maryland argued that the Constitution doesn’t mention banks and therefore banks are not allowed to be created by Congress
Marshall and the Supreme Court
• “The power to tax involves the power to destroy,"
• States do not have the right to exert an independent check on the authority of the federal government
Marshall and the Supreme Court
• Gibbons v. Ogden • Commerce Clause• Overturned a New
York law that had awarded a monopoly over steamboat traffic on the Hudson River
• Freed the transportation system from restraints by the states
Nationalism Influences Foreign Affairs
• In an effort to strengthen the US position in foreign policy Pres announces the Monroe Doctrine
• The US would not become involved in the internal affairs of European countries
Nationalism Influences Foreign Affairs
• The US would not permit any further colonization of the Western Hemisphere
• Top Ten most important Foreign Policy Decisions!
Nationalism Influences Foreign Affairs
• Those who have used the principle: – 1836 manifest destiny
(Pres Polk) Texas/West
– 1842 Hawaii– 1900’s Roosevelt
Corollary – 1962 Kennedy Cuban
Missile Crisis – 1980 Reagan
Salvaldor & Grenada
Nationalism Influences Foreign Affairs
• Adam-Onis Treaty
• Ended Spanish claims to the vast Pacific Coast Territory and Great Britain agreed to share the territory
• Showed the impact of nationalism on foreign policy
Daily Quiz
The Monroe Doctrine stated that
• Europe must not try to control any nation in the Western Hemisphere
The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Marshall made
several decisions that
• strengthened the federal government
• Elastic Clause McCulloch v Maryland
• Commerce Clause Gibbons vs. Ogden
Nation Compromises Over Slavery
Missouri Compromise
• 1819, Congress debated about the admission of Missouri to the United States
• The issues of the debate was slavery
• Northwest Ordinance of 1787 established no state NW of Ohio R. could be a slave state
Missouri Compromise
• Henry Clay proposed a compromise
1. Slavery would not be restricted in Missouri, Maine will be admitted as a free state – keeps the balance of states 12 - 12
2. Territories north of 36 30N latitude in Louisiana Purchase would be closed to slavery
Missouri Compromise
• The crisis over the Missouri Compromise exposed the growing sectionalism over the issue of slavery
Daily Quiz
According to the Missouri Compromise, slavery would be
allowed
• in Missouri, but Maine would be admitted as a free state
Northern states objected to admitting Missouri as a slave
state because
• it would increase the power of the southern states in the Senate
The crisis over the Missouri Compromise exposed
• Growing sectionalism over the issue of slavery
Classroom Activity
Closure:
Inner Outer Circle • Monroe Doctrine & Missouri Compromise
Political Cartoon analysis: