Period 4: 1800-1848
Kenya De Leon - January 2016
The Louisiana Purchase
- Large, unexplored tract of land in the West (MS and MO Rivers)
- US wanted control of the MS River to avoid European affairs
- Jefferson's Strict interpretation - predicament
- Positive consequences
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
- Chief Justice - Marshall
- Marbury sued for his commission
- Marshall ruled that Marbury had a right to his commission because of the Judiciary Act of 1789; however, the act was unconstitutional and Marbury would not receive his commission.
- Established judicial review
Marbury v. Madison - Govt. Project
Transportation
- Roads/Turnpikes - National/Cumberland Road - major route west, funded using federal and state money, completed in 1850s
- Canals - Erie Canal - linked the economy of western farms to that of eastern cities, completed in 1825 under John Q. Adams
- Steamboats
- Railroads
Politics of the Common Man
- Universal male suffrage
- Party nominating conventions - nominate candidates in large meeting hall rather than in caucuses
- Popular election
- Rise of third parties - Anti-Masonic, Workingmen's
- Campaigning
- Spoils System/Office Rotation - jobs in return for loyalty to the party
- NAT-1.0: Jackson expressed ideas of democracy and supported the common man
Abolitionist Movement
- American Colonization Society created in 1816
- No real anti-slavery sentiment in the North in 1820s/1830s
- Gradualists vs. Immediatists
- Garrison - immediatist; The Liberator (1831)
- Fredrick Douglas
- Harriet Tubman
- POL-2.0: The abolitionist movement sought to change/destroy the slavery institution