U4 - Nationalism, Democracy & Expansion, 1800-1840

Student Resources

General

• Interactive Constitution - use anytime we are discussing or you are interested in constitutional issues
• The Marshall Court - a guide on five key cases - see also
  • this Explanation of the seminal case Marbury v. Madison with visuals) +
  • The Supreme Court's own history of its "Constitutional Interpretation," and
  • an analysis by Cornell University on judicial review
• "The Election of 1800 Cliffhanger" (Smithsonian magazine) - in case you want to know more than what is in Lin-Manuel Miranda's song from Hamilton (and more than what's in the notes on that site's right sidebar)
• War of 1812 Native American experience
• Resource outlining the First and Second Banks of the United States and the two-party systems up to 1900
• Resources on Tariffs - Cato Institute overview, Mises Institute longer overview including wars, video of an APUSH teacher (first 4 mins is this era), very detailed explanation from the Encyclopedia of Foreign Policy
• Treaty of New Echota & Cherokee removal

Presentations to supplement our learning in class at various times

• Legacies of the Republican Era (foreign and domestic) - we will use these slides to review Jefferson (first two), then other administrations as we get to them.
• Expansion Maps, 1803-1854 (which we will return to in Unit 5)
• Election Maps, 1800-1832
• Antebellum Economic Development & Social Changes (based on Henretta 8a-c & 9)

SLAVERY-related resources

• Northerners complicit in the slave trade: the DeWolf Family & others
• PBS History Detectives on the suppression of the slave trade and the Supreme Court cases involving The Antelope and The Amistad
• The Missouri Compromise debate
• Maps showing lands taken from Native Americans for cotton production, where cotton was produced, domestic slave trade, and distribution of enslaved population

RELIGION-related resources: recall the excellent site on religions from the Colonial era?

• Here is a "family tree" for Methodists (includes AME) & Baptists