2. Westward Movement
Americans marched quickly toward west
very hard w/ disease & loneliness
Frontier people were individualistic,
superstitious & ill-informed
Westward movement molded environment
tobacco exhausted land
6. Early Nativism
American “nativists” feared
invasion of immigrants
Took jobs
Took over
neighborhoods
Formed “American
Party”
7. american system
Promote nationalism was internal
improvements to unite the US.
•Transportation system of
roads, canals, steamships
and rivers.
Henry Clay,
John C. Calhoun, US •Finally… the railroad
CongressmenSouth
Senator from from
Kentucky
Carolina
Provide economic growth (Economic Nationalism)
•Americans buying American goods
•American self-sufficiency.
•Protective tariff (allows US factories to grow)
•2nd Bank of the United States
9. Bad roads made transportation highly unreliable
The National Road begun in 1811 and completed
by 1832
• Connected Maryland to Illinois.
• Built by US government
12. 1850 to 1860, RR proved most
significant development toward
national economy
Americans demanded transcontinental
railroad to California.
• Completed by 1869.
14. Pony Express connected East-West
Telegraph instantly sent messages across US
People moved faster and country expanded
• Unifying spirit among fellow country men
• A need for a transcontinental railroad that
connected east to west
15. A shift from goods made by
hand to factory and mass
production
Technological innovations
brought production from
farmhouse to factories
• Beginning of US Factory System
• Slow beginning
16. The invention
which changed
the South, cotton
and slavery.
•Eli Whitney’s cotton gin
revolutionized the cotton industry.
•Mass Production and
Interchangeable Parts.
•Very important early pioneer in
America’s industrial revolution.
Cotton Production
17. Cotton gin invented in 1793
• 50 times more effective than hand
picking
New England factories
flourish with Southern
cotton- more $$$
18. 1807, Fulton's Clermont, was the
first commercially successful and
reliable steamboat. Steam boat
would revolutionize water travel.
20. Samuel F. B. Morse
1840 – Telegraph
“WHAT GOD HATH WROUGHT”
21. From left to right: Eli Whitney (cotton gin, interchangeable parts),
Robert Fulton (steam boat), Thomas Edison (light bulb), Cyrus
McCormick (reaper), Richard Hoe (automatic printing press)
22. •Slater came to US to
Samuel Slater make his fortune in
was the "Father the textile industry.
of the American
Factory •Cotton Mill
System."
24. Americans beat the British at their
own game, made better factories
Francis C Lowell came over here to
build British factories met up with
Boston mechanic, Paul Moody
25. The Lowell System
Lowell, Massachusetts, 1832
Young New England farm girls
(Often Women and Children would be in the
workplace because it would be cheaper for
companies)
Supervised on and off the job
Worked 6 days a week, 13 hours a day
Escorted to church on Sunday
26. •1830s,
Industrialization grew
throughout the
North…
•Southern cotton
shipped to Northern
textile mills was a good
working relationship.
…..
But that “Good
Relationship” would
be strained…
31. corrupt
The Corrupt Bargain
•Henry Clay gives his support to John Adams and the
House of Representatives chooses Adams as the President.
•Two weeks later, Adams appoints Henry Clay as his
Secretary of State….
•Jackson cries out corruption and calls this the “Corrupt
Bargain.”
•Jackson promises he would run again for the Presidency
in 1828 and would smash Adams.
32. Jackson and J. Q. Adams ran
against each other for the
presidency
One anti-Jackson newspaper declared, •Anti-Adams people accused
him of hiring a servant girl for
“General Jackson’s mother was a common a visiting Russian
prostitute, brought to this country by the ambassador…
British soldiers! She, afterwards married a
mulatto man with whom she had several •Adams was accused of
children, of which one was Andrew Jackson.” gambling in the White House.
•One of the worst elections in US History for its “mudslinging.”
•As a result of this, Jackson’s wife Rachel, died of a heart attack just
before he became President…He blamed Adams and Clay and never
forgave them…..
34. Common Man and the
west become politically SPOILS System:
powerful Putting your
Land easy to friends and
Jackson brought supporters in high
obtain in the democracy to the
West so Common man Govt Jobs
property Bricklayers
qualifications Blacksmith
were dropped Farmers
Rise of the Common
Education Man and The New Carpenters
not as Democracy The Working
important Class
Jackson stood
Other Common for the
Men in US Powerful movement common man
History: in the country to
expand involvement which was
Davy Crockett and participation of most of the
Sam Houston the common man in population
democracy.
35. Jackson’s Indian Removal
Jackson’s Goal?
Expansion into the southwest for southern
planters
1830: Indian Removal Act
5 Civilized Tribes: (forced removal)
Cherokee Creek Choctaw
Chickasaw Seminole
Cherokee Nation v. GA (1831)
“domestic dependent nation”
Worcester v. GA (1832)
Cherokee law is sovereign and Georgia law does
not apply in Cherokee nation.
Jackson: John Marshall has made his
decision, now let him enforce it!
36.
37.
38. Long time we travel on way to new land. People feel bad when they
leave old nation. Women cry and make sad wails. Children cry and
many men cry, and all look sad like when friends die, but they say
nothing and just put heads down and keep on go towards West.
Many days pass and people die very much. We bury close by Trail.
Survivor of the Trail of Tears
39. NULLIFICATION CRISIS
**Demonstrates the growing
conflict between South and
National Power/NORTH
John C. Calhoun, President
former VP under Jackson,
Jackson, US THE UNITED
Senator from STATES
South Carolina
40. To “NULLIFY” a Federal Law is to eliminate it.
The Nullification Crisis was an argument over
IF the States had the RIGHT/POWER to
eliminate a FEDERAL/NATIONAL Law?
According to our Constitution the National
Govt ALWAYS has the last word…
Jackson’s opposition to NULLIFICATION
enhanced his reputation as a STRONG
President.
41. The Bank of the United States, although privately owned,
received federal deposits and attempted to serve a public
purpose by cushioning the ups and downs of the national
economy … Govt supported Rich
42. • Jackson
opposed the
bill to support
the Second
Bank of the
USA… he
thought it was
“special
The 1832 Election privileges”
• Reinforced his
image of a
“COMMON
MAN”
