Post war of 1812 America

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Post war of 1812 America

• A Time of many changes
• The Era of Good Feeling

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Standard VII

• SSUHS7 Students will explain the process of
  economic growth, its regional and national impact
  in the first half of the 19th century, and the
  different responses to it.
• Why was the War of 1812 a catalyst for major
  change in America?

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The Era of Good feeling

• The years of 1815 1825 were known as the Era of
  good feeling
• 1 political party
• Significant economic development
• Negotiated a truce in the brewing slavery battle
• Era of Good Feelings - Wikipedia, the free
  encyclopedia

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Changes in America

• America experienced changes in the following
  areas
• ECONOMIC
• POLITICAL
• SOCIAL

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Industrial / Economic Changes

• The industrial revolution arrives in America
• Emergence of a Free market economy occur in
  America
• 2 Reasons
• Faith in the country which leads to investments
  in banking
• Work outside of the home and work other than
  subsistence farming
• System allows for the fastest, most efficient,
  most creative people to thrive

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Free market economy

• Take about 2 minutes to list what you think are
  the characteristics of a free market economy!
• an economic system in which prices and wages are
  determined by unrestricted competition between
  businesses, without government regulation or fear
  of monopolies.

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American economy in 1815

• The economy thrives because
• 1. New businesses move here
• 2. Gov. is not cracking down on what can and
  cannot be done as some other world gov. are doing
• 3. (previously cited examples about investments
  and faith in system)

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Inventions drive the change

• Steam engine Robert Fulton
• Name 2 ways this would have influenced the
  economy
• Cotton Gin Eli Whitney
• Name 2 ways this would have influenced the
  economy
• Interchangeable parts Eli Whitney
• Name 2 ways this would have influenced the
  economy
• What was the tariff of 1828? What was it
  nicknamed and why?

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Francis Cabot Lowell

• Francis Cabot Lowell (businessman) - Wikipedia,
  the free encyclopedia
• Francis Cabot Lowell creates the worlds first
  centralized textile mill.
• The creation of this mill and the creation of the
  cotton gin link the country and make us an
  industrial force.
• Coupled with the steam engine powering our ships
  and trains, we became a force to be reckoned with

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Economies of the regions

• Northwest Farming would send crops via canal
  to NY or Mississippi river to New Orleans.
  Dependent upon steam ships.
• Northeast Manufacturing Mills - textiles
• South The philosophy of King Cotton emerges
• South has good cotton farming conditions ?
  southern economy develops around cotton farming ?
  Cotton Gin makes cotton plantations profitable ?
  Market rev. leads to massive textile industry ?
  Landowners create plantations
• How did this system make slave labor ultra
  important?

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Political Change

• Due to the new influence of slave labor, the
  south became an important part of the nation.
• Missouri Compromise - Wikipedia, the free
  encyclopedia
• (Mo Compromise worksheet)

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The Election of 1824

• Era of good feelings comes to an end with a
  political scandal (according to Jackson)
• Presidential Election Interactive Map and History
  of the Electoral College
• John Quincy Adams is elected President and forces
  Jackson to create the Jacksonian Deomocrats.

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Adams Presidency

• Adams passed the Tariff of 1828 - Wikipedia, the
  free encyclopedia AKA The Tariff of
  Abominations
• Due to this protective tariff and lack of
  interest in moving the native Americans, people
  chose to make a change in 1828

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MOTIVATION FOR REFORM

• 1. Unified country
• Since we now work outside the home and people
  interact with one another, the country wanted to
  have NORMS / standards.
• Second Great Awakening
• Citizens had noticed that our country had moved
  away from the judeo/Christian principles of the
  founding fathers