An Era of Nationalism

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An Era of Nationalism
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Focus Question

• How did domestic and foreign policy reflect the
  nationalism of the times?
• Protective Tariffs
• Supreme Court decisions that strengthened the
  national government
• Acquiring Florida
• Monroe Doctrine
• Missouri Compromise

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Note Taking Reading Skill Understand Effects
Reading Skill Understand Effects
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Nationalism Shapes Domestic Policy

• Henry Clay
• American System
• Protective tariff
• Build roads and canals to tie the different
  regions into a harmonious whole
• Reestablish a Bank of US

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Nationalism Shapes Domestic Policies

• James Monroe, the nation's fifth president,
  embarked on a goodwill tour through the North
• A renewal of national unity, called the times the
  "Era of Good Feelings."
• It was a time of few factional disputes

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Nationalism Shapes Domestic Policies

• The spirit of nationalism was apparent in a
  series of landmark Supreme Court decisions
• Established national supremacy over the states
• Extended the nation's boundaries and protected
  its shipping and commerce

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Marshall and the Supreme Court

• Supreme Court
• Headed by Chief Justice John Marshall
• Made several key decisions that strengthened the
  federal government
• More than the framers, he molded the development
  of the Const.

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Marshall and the Supreme Court

• The necessary and proper, elastic clause
• Does a state have the power to tax a branch of
  the Bank of the United States?
• First tested in McCulloch v. Maryland
• Bank of the US was subject to a tax by the state
  of Maryland
• The bank manager (McCulloch) refused to pay
• Maryland argued that the Constitution doesnt
  mention banks and therefore banks are not allowed
  to be created by Congress

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Marshall and the Supreme Court

• The power to tax involves the power to destroy,"
  
• States do not have the right to exert an
  independent check on the authority of the federal
  government

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Marshall and the Supreme Court

• Gibbons v. Ogden
• Commerce Clause
• Overturned a New York law that had awarded a
  monopoly over steamboat traffic on the Hudson
  River
• Freed the transportation system from restraints
  by the states

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Nationalism Influences Foreign Affairs

• In an effort to strengthen the US position in
  foreign policy Pres announces the Monroe Doctrine
• The US would not become involved in the internal
  affairs of European countries

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Nationalism Influences Foreign Affairs

• The US would not permit any further colonization
  of the Western Hemisphere
• Top Ten most important Foreign Policy Decisions!

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Nationalism Influences Foreign Affairs

• Those who have used the principle
• 1836 manifest destiny (Pres Polk) Texas/West
• 1842 Hawaii
• 1900s Roosevelt Corollary
• 1962 Kennedy Cuban Missile Crisis
• 1980 Reagan Salvaldor Grenada

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Nationalism Influences Foreign Affairs

• Adam-Onis Treaty
• Ended Spanish claims to the vast Pacific Coast
  Territory and Great Britain agreed to share the
  territory
• Showed the impact of nationalism on foreign policy

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Daily Quiz
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The Monroe Doctrine stated that

• Europe must not try to control any nation in the
  Western Hemisphere

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The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Marshall
made several decisions that

• strengthened the federal government
• Elastic Clause McCulloch v Maryland
• Commerce Clause Gibbons vs. Ogden

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Nation Compromises Over Slavery
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Missouri Compromise

• 1819, Congress debated about the admission of
  Missouri to the United States
• The issues of the debate was slavery
• Northwest Ordinance of 1787 established no state
  NW of Ohio R. could be a slave state

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Missouri Compromise

• Henry Clay proposed a compromise
• Slavery would not be restricted in Missouri,
  Maine will be admitted as a free state keeps
  the balance of states 12 - 12
• Territories north of 36 30N latitude in Louisiana
  Purchase would be closed to slavery

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Missouri Compromise

• The crisis over the Missouri Compromise exposed
  the growing sectionalism over the issue of slavery

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Daily Quiz
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According to the Missouri Compromise, slavery
would be allowed

• in Missouri, but Maine would be admitted as a
  free state

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Northern states objected to admitting Missouri as
a slave state because

• it would increase the power of the southern
  states in the Senate

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The crisis over the Missouri Compromise exposed

• Growing sectionalism over the issue of slavery

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Classroom Activity

• Closure
• Inner Outer Circle
• Monroe Doctrine Missouri Compromise
• Political Cartoon analysis