Unit 4 Review
The Jeffersonians
1800-1820
Ch. 11-12
Themes:
- Decline and death of the Federalist Party.
- “Era of Good Feeling”.
- Marshall and his Supreme Court decisions.
- What caused Jeffersonian Democracy to develop?
- Compare the Second Party System with the First.
- Rise and development of political parties --> economic, social, and geographical characteristics and leaders.
- Hamilton’s economic program created the political issues for the next 50 years.
- The positions, rationale, issues, and spokesmen for the sections on the following political topics: tariff, banking, internal improvements, expansion, and slavery.
- The significance of the 1824 election.
- The War of 1812 as a second War for Independence.
- Foreign policy united and divided Americans between 1800 and 1824.
- The interests of the West were satisfied by neither the Jeffersonians nor the Federalists between 1789 and 1815.
- Provisions and impact of the Monroe Doctrine.
- Clay’s “American System”.
Terms
- Louisiana Purchase
- Lewis & Clark
- Judiciary Act - 1801
- "Midnight Judges"
- Judicial Review
- John Marshall
- Marbury v. Madison - 1803
- Fletcher v. Peck - 1810
- McCulloch v. Maryland - 1819
- Dartmouth College v. Woodward - 1819
- Cohens v. Virginia - 1821
- Gibbons v. Ogden - 1824
- Aaron Burr
- Embargo Act - 1807
- Macon's Bill #2 - 1810
- War Hawks
- John C. Calhoun
- Henry Clay
- War of 1812
- Impressment
- Hartford Convention - 1814
- Treaty of Ghent - 1814
- Battle of New Orleans
- "Era of Good Feeling"
- Tariff of 1816
- Rush-Bagot Agreement - 1817
- Adams-Onis Treaty - 1819
- Panic of 1819
- Missouri Compromise of 1820
- Monroe Doctrine - 1823
- Erie Canal
- Robert Fulton
- Eli Whitney
- Samuel Slater
- Lowell System
- Denmark Vessey - 1822
Essay Questions:
- To what extent was President Thomas Jefferson’s foreign policy the master or servant of events, 1801-1809?
- Discuss how the nationalism of the 1810s & 1820s became the sectionalism of the 1830s and 1840s. What were the social, political, and economic reasons for these changes?
- What was the most important factor that led to the development of American industry after the War of 1812? Use the documents and your knowledge of U S History to answer the question.
- The labeling of the period 1816-1824 as “The Era of Good Feeling” is one of the most inappropriate examples of periodization in American historical scholarship. Assess the validity of this statement.
- In what sense, if any, is the idea of a “Revolution of 1800” justified? (Note that Jefferson himself always considered that his election represented a genuine “revolution”—but what did he really mean or understand by that term in this context?)