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NOTE-TAKING GUIDE: Of the People: A History of the United States CHAPTER 9 “A Republic in Transition: 1800–1819”
COMMON THREADS
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Why was overseas trade so important to the new nation?
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How did the way average Americans lived change over the first
quarter-century of the republic?
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How were the political debates of ratification and of the 1790s still
playing out during Jefferson’s and Madison’s administrations?
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What important changes in context and content occurred in US Indian
policy over the period of the first four administrations?
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What was the relationship between the defeat of Native Americans
and the expansion of slavery?
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What roles did organized religion play in shaping the society of the
early republic?
OUTLINE
A Politics of Transition
A Contested Election, an Anxious Nation
Democratic Republicans in Office
The Louisiana Purchase
Embargo
The War of 1812
Madison and the War
Federalist Response
An Economy in Transition
International Markets
America and the World: The United States in China
Crossing the Appalachian Mountains
Invention and Exploration
Early Industrial Society in New England
The Rule of Law and Lawyers
Ways of Life in Flux
Indian Resistance to American Expansion
Winners and Losers in the New Economy
Religion
American Landscape: Religion in the Backcountry: Cane Ridge,
Kentucky
The Problem of Trust in a Changing Society
The Panic of 1819
Conclusion
WHO?
WHAT?
De Witt Clinton
Revivals
Gabriel
Market revolution
Robert Fulton
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
John Marshall
Tecumseh
REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. What were the primary challenges facing the Jefferson
administration? How well did the administration handle those
challenges?
2. What was the market revolution?
3. How did changes in religion help American adjust to their rapidly
changing world?
4. The War of 1812 was hardly an American victory, yet at its
conclusion, the United States was stronger than it had ever been.
5. Why was this so?
6. What challenges did the addition of vast new territories create for
the United States and how did it address them? Why didn’t it
make colonies out of the new territories?
7. This period saw the development of both cotton plantations in the
South and factories in the North. Though seemingly quite
different, both were expressions of the market revolution. How so?
NOTES: TO FOLLOW UP / QUESTIONS TO ASK IN CLASS
NOTE-TAKING GUIDE: Of the People: A History of the United States CHAPTER 9 “A Republic in Transition: 1800–1819”