The document provides an overview of key events and developments in US history from the War of 1812 through the Monroe administration. Some of the main topics covered include the causes and results of the War of 1812; Andrew Jackson's military career and Indian removal policies; the development of political parties and the "Virginia dynasty"; and the establishment of the Monroe Doctrine. The survey touches on westward expansion, slavery, and the growth of industry during this period.

1. US History survey
March 6, 2012
War of 1812, Indians, politics

2. US declared war on British, 1812
• 1. rights of neutrals to trade during
Napoleonic Wars.
• 2. British impressment of American sailors.
• 3. conquer Canada; extend US throughout
the continent. (Loyalists had fled to Canada.)
• 4. end British support for Indians; solve
settler/Indian conflicts.

3. impressment –
trans-Atlantic trade

4. justification for War of 1812
• “Uncle Sam” comes
from War of 1812.
• A meatpacker
stamped barrels
with “US” & soldiers
called it Uncle Sam.

5. War of 1812

7. burning of White House & Capitol

8. results of War of 1812
• Treaty of Ghent, 1814 – no land changed hands;
war ended, but most issues unresolved
• British finally accepted US independence.
• Canada remained part of British Empire; mixed
constitution of king & Parliament.
• immigrants to Canada from
Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland.
• British naval disarmament on Great Lakes & St.
Lawrence R. & borders resolved in next decade.
• Indians

9. Battle of New Orleans, 1815
• ended British plan to
take Gulf Coast & New
Orleans & encircle US
from south, west, &
north.
• connected to US
invasion of Florida;
• took place after Treaty forcing out southern
of Ghent signed. Indian; & forcing Spain
• made Andrew Jackson a to relinquish Florida to
hero. US.

10. Indians
• Indian Intercourse Act, 1790 – US couldn’t
seize Indian land; treaty required. Principle
that Indians were foreign nations.
• settlers consistently encroached on Indian
land. Cycle of invasion, resistance, defeat.
• Jefferson believed Indians should become
yeoman farmers.
• tribes split between accommodationists &
traditionalists.

11. Tecumseh & Tenskwatawa
• goal: create alliance of all Indians to
stop westward expansion.
• Shawnee brothers.
• Tenskwatawa (the Prophet) – Indian
revitalization through rejecting
American contact & influence.
• Harrison – Battle of Tippecanoe, 1811.
• end of Indian resistance in Old
Northwest.

12. Tecumseh
• "No tribe has the right to sell, even to each
other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country!
Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the
earth? Didn't the Great Spirit make them all for
the use of his children?”
• “The white people are like poisonous serpents:
when chilled, they are feeble & harmless; but
invigorate them with warmth, and they sting their
benefactors to death.”
• killed in battle, 1813.

13. Creek & other Indian wars in SE
• Jackson defeated Creeks, 1813. Forced them
to cede millions of acres.
• 1816 – 1818, Jackson’s troops forced
Choctaws, Chickasees, Cherokees to yield
land.

14. 1819 treaty with Spain

15. Adams-Onis Treaty, 1819
• US gets Floridas.
• US gives up claims to Texas.
• treaty line extended to Pacific Ocean.
• after Indian dispossession, rapid growth of lands
by settlers with slaves.
• 3 new slave states enter US
– Mississippi, 1817
– Alabama, 1819
– Missouri, 1821

16. from Britain & Spain, final pieces of
eastern North America

17. Andrew Jackson
• from Tennessee.
• politician, army
general, Indian
fighter, rich slave owner.
• invaded Florida.
• stay tuned for more
developments….

18. “Virginia Dynasty”

19. “the American System”
• Madison & Monroe embraced Federalist
program for economic development
(Alexander Hamilton)
– national bank
– tax on imports
– national system of roads & canals.
• these developments essential
for expansion of industry & commerce.

20. politics – development of parties
• Jefferson’s “agrarian republic” – a nation of
farmers necessary for a republic.
• Virginia dynasty (don’t forget Washington!) were
famers: owners of plantations & slaves.
• Adams (2nd president) represented merchant/
commercial interests of New England.
• first American party system – Federalists &
Jeffersonian Republicans.
• “Era of Good Feelings” – 1817 – 1825 (Monroe) –
government of national unity, representing all
sections & interests.

21. Monroe Doctrine
• Monroe asked Congress
to recognize new
(formerly Spanish)
republics.
• warned Europe not to
colonize any more in W
hemisphere; would be
a threat to US.
• US wouldn’t interfere
w/ existing colonies.

22. Monroe Doctrine

23. reading for March 13
• Industrialization: Lowell (Massachusetts)
National Historic Park
• http://www.nps.gov/lowe/index.htm
• read the stories of at least 2 women and 1
man in the History & Culture section of the
website.