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- Industrial (machines) =/= Industrious (mass women and children working)
- Dev of cotton textiles
- Infrastructrs
- Unification (market convergence= same cost of things everwhr)
- Agricltrl decline
- N= great infrstrctrs ; S= primitivism (underdv), mr isolated and dependent on N
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Republican (=/= 1st 2 presidents wr federalists); belvd in weak central gov, eco on agrcltr, west expansion, individlsm
Belvd agrcltr will preserve Am (~farmers r the chosen one) = Agragrian Republicanism -
Tom Paine
Basicly concerned abt how Am follows bad steps of Erp and lost will to fight for freedom -
Bought it from Napoleon I
Wanted it cuz farmers and merchants uses port to move goods -
1st black Republc. So near US = challenge for Jffrson to maintain slavery -
Supreme Court has final word in understanding Constitution
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No US merchant ships into foreign ports (~>no dealings, isolation); all the shipping was national
Made this Act cuz pirates attacked them and Brit wr impressing (kidnapping) US sailors
This doctrine of Am great by indpdc continued, espcly with Monroe Doutrine (1823) -
However inland slavery and slave trade didn't stop, and the number of slaves even grew cuz of reproduction (and cotton industry wasn't as deadly as sugar plantations)
Actly slavery was limited/controlled cuz of political reasons (didn't want South (~Congress) to be mr pwrfl than North (~Pres) -
- new idea of Agrgrn Republcnsm
- Judicial review
- beginnings of Westerlands Expansion [explored by Lewis and William Clark who became template to go settle West and dvlp that land]
- under Jffrsn logic that slavery = South thing
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Causes: lots of angst everywhr but espcly in terrtries that wr US's but Brit still controlled
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Last battle of War of 1812
Am led by General Andrew Jackson (who stays linked to victory forever). His victory fueled a rising Am nationalism and his Presidency -
Southerns got rich thx to slave solding. Constantly moving West
Only upper echelons had slaves (became a social marker) -
After 1828: all property qualifications (value of property owned, value of taxes paid) for male voters wr removed; only Delaware and S Carolina chose old method (chose their Electors for Prsdtial Election through the state legislative)
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Mob of white men burned shelters, homes and assaulted a number of Afr-Am, in Ohio [West]
Many Afr-Am decided to migrate to Canada after that -
Military man and poplr figr cuz of his victories (New Orleand -1815, and Seminole in Florida - 1817)
Nicknamed the "ppl's Pres"
Ran for presidcy in 1824 but lost, won twice afterwards
Belvd in universal suffrage for white men -
Andrew Jackson
~"That's so sad for Indians. Alexa play Despacito ; it's needed for our own good, to give better future in those bigger lands" -
Used faith and Bible as reason
Led to massive killing and lynching of slaves and md Am mr repressive: didn't allow blacks to learn christianity if no white minister was present -
Tocqueville
In Am exists "corps intermédiaires" (=civil society [organic place whr ppl come tgthr] =/= State [which is limited in Am])
In Am freedom and equality both; but this love of equality creates homogeneity thus intolerance (see difrces as threat, even if difrc is just a lil bit mr money, education...)
Mrvr, cuz of so much freedom, hv a penchant for a radical concentration of power; which creates threat to hierarchy (all social barriers down) => instability -
Jackson defended common man's right to equality and prosperity. One way of achieving it was to open reservoirs of cheap land to settlement; which meant removal of Natives
So Natives, lk black slaves and as always women wr excluded from Jacksnian democarcy
+ anti-concentration of power (~anti gov) -
The instability of their work made them strike. They opposed to "wage slavery" (low salary, barely survivable)
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Memoir by Frederic Douglass: freed slave, abolitionist
Describes his life of slave