Download Brinkley, Chapter 7 “The Jeffersonian Era”

Brinkley, Chapter 7 “The Jeffersonian Era”
Main themes of Chapter Seven:
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How Americans expressed their burgeoning cultural independence through republican education, literature, and
religious revivalism
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The impact of industrialism on the United States and its people, particularly with regard to agricultural technology
and transportation
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The domestic questions and foreign entanglements of Thomas Jefferson's presidency, including Marbury v.
Madison, the Louisiana Purchase, the settling of the West, and the impressment and embargo controversies
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The response of the American people and their political system to the nation's physical expansion, and the
reaction of Native American groups to this expansion
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The growing conflict between British naval policies and American self-identity that led to the War of 1812, and
its ultimate consequences for the young American nation
A thorough study of Chapter Seven should enable the student to understand the following:
1. The role of republican education in creating a "virtuous and enlightened citizenry"
2. The American cultural and nationalist aspirations beginning to emerge in the first two decades of the nineteenth
century
3. The effects of the revolutionary experience on American religion, and the changing religious patterns that helped
bring on the Second Great Awakening
4. The growing industrialism of America and the important advances made in technology and transportation during
Jefferson's presidency, belying the simple, agrarian republic envisioned by the Jeffersonians
5. The political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson, and the extent to which he was able to adhere to his philosophy
while president
6. The origins and compromises that led to the creation of Washington, D.C. as America's capital
7. The Jeffersonian-Federalist struggle over the judiciary—its causes, the main points of conflict, and the importance
of the outcome for the future of the nation
8. President Jefferson's constitutional reservations concerning the Louisiana Purchase, and the significance of his
decision to accept the bargain
9. The reasons for President Jefferson's sponsorship of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the importance of that
expedition
10. The strange story of Aaron Burr, his duel with Alexander Hamilton, and his trial for "conspiracy"
11. The problems caused by Tecumseh's attempts at confederation and by the Spanish presence in Florida as
Americans surged westward
12. The motivations behind Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's strategy of "peaceable coercion," and why it
ultimately failed
13. The international events leading up to the War of 1812, and the domestic forces encouraging the war
14. The extent of the opposition to the American war effort, and the ways in which the New England Federalists
attempted to show their objections
15. The end of the War of 1812, and the treaties accompanying it
16. The comparative role of the United States in the "global industrial revolution" that originated in Great Britain
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A system of free public schools for a strong
republic (educated citizens)
“virtuous citizens”
“republican motherhood” (connected to virtuous
citizens)
Judith Sargent Murray
“uplifting” Native Americans
The burgeoning of institutions of higher
education
U Penn medical school
Benjamin Rush
Cultural nationalism: Jedidiah Morse, Noah
Webster, Washington Irving
Religious skepticism, deism, Unitarianism
Second Great Awakening
Cane Ridge, KY (“revivalism”)
Peter Cartwright
Effects of the new evangelicalism
Revivalism and the African American
community
Revivalism and the Native American community
Early industrial revolution (with small “r”) =
textile mills
Samuel Slater
Moses Brown, Pawtucket, RI
Eli Whitney, cotton gin and interchangeable parts
Transportation revolution (small “r”) =
steamboats, turnpikes
Robert Fulton
Jefferson and “the Federal City”
Pierre L’Enfant
Jefferson’s presidential style as opposed to that
of GW and JA
Conflict with the Barbary pirates
Adams and “midnight judges”
Judiciary Act of 1789
Marbury v. Madison
Judicial review
John Marshall
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Samuel Chase and the significance of his
impeachment
Toussaint L’Overture
Haitian revolution
Robert Livingston and Jefferson’s mission to buy
New Orleans
The Louisiana Purchase (and “Jefferson’s
quandary”)
Louis and Clark’s expedition
The “Essex Junto” and “Northern Confederacy”
Hamilton v. Burr (what was the duel about?)
Gen. James Wilkinson and the “Burr conspiracy”
The two conflicts during Jefferson’s presidency
Napoleon’s “Continental system” v. the British
“Orders in Council”
Impressment
Chesapeake-Leonard incident
“peaceable coercion”
Embargo Act of 1807
William Henry Harrison v. Tecumseh
Tecumseh and “the Prophet” and the pan-Indian
alliance
Battle of Tippicanoe
Problems with Spanish Florida
“war hawks”
Henry Clay (KY) and John C. Calhoun (SC)
War of 1812: war on the Great Lakes (Oliver
Perry)
War of 1812: British invasion of mid-Atlantic
states and burning of Washington DC (Ft.
McHenry)
War of 1812: Indian wars in West FL and AL,
Battle of Horseshoe Bend
Battle of New Orleans, “hero” of New Orleans
The Hartford Convention
Treaty of Ghent
Rush-Bagot Agreement