Period 4

I. The Era of Jefferson

II.The Marshall Court

III. The War of 1812

IV. The Presidency of James Monroe

V. Jacksonian Democracy

VI. The Tariff of AbominationsAnd The Nullification Crisis

VII. The Bank War

VIII. Jackson and the Forced Removal of Native Americans

Worchester v. Georgia 1831

Cherokee Native Americans take their case to he Supreme Court to fight for the right to their tribal lands

President Andrew Jackson: “I have long viewed treaties with American Indians as an absurdty not to be reconciled wit the princples of our government.”

IX. The Transportation Revolution

The Erie Canal, 1825

Railroads (1828)

Steamboats

Effects: Inceased trade, faser travel, expansion

into the West, access to Eastern Markets

X. Texas Independence Fight, 1836

Texas had been part of Mexican territory, but, when Americans settled in Texas, they were antagonized by strict Mexican laws and disagreements on the issue of slavery.

Americans helped Texans gain their independence in 1836.

XI. Transcendentalism and Utopian Communities

Utopianism, civility, andorganization

Transcendentalism: A philosophical and literary movement of the 1800s that advocated a simple lifestyle, as well as the celebration of nature and personal emotion.

XII. Religious and Social ReformThe Second Great Awakening

Dorothea Dix

Horace Mann

*Temperance and Prison reform as

well as educational and religious

reform.

XIII. Role of Women in Antebellum America

Upper Class Republican Women

V.S.

Middle and Lower Class Women

Commonl married women with well off husbands

Commonly single women with factory jobs, poorer

XIV. The Changing Role of Women in Antebellum America

The Women’s Movement and the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848