https://padlet.com/400016053/uu3f098mqk95 A time of peace and national expansion en-us 2017-10-11 16:36:35 UTC 2023-06-16 08:13:28 UTC hello@padlet.com 400016053 https://padlet.com/400016053/uu3f098mqk95/wish/196160227 Goal was to create national unity. ]]> 2017-10-11 18:11:29 UTC https://padlet.com/400016053/uu3f098mqk95/wish/196160227 400016053 https://padlet.com/400016053/uu3f098mqk95/wish/196161025 American victory after the end of the War of 1812 helped enhance American identity and win respect from foreign nations. ]]> 2017-10-11 18:13:08 UTC https://padlet.com/400016053/uu3f098mqk95/wish/196161025 400016053 https://padlet.com/400016053/uu3f098mqk95/wish/196164243 Caused by: 
- over speculation of frontier lands by the banks
-inflation from war of 1812
-Public debt
-The U.S. bank forced the western(wildcat) -----banks to foreclose western farms
*western banks viewed U.S. bank as a monster  
-Foreign competition
-A stoppage of trade
-was the first financial panic since the articles of confederation
Results: 
 1. Reform and increased democracy 
 the poorer classes wanted a representative gov(Jackson) 
 2. Smaller pieces of land sold for cheaper
*MONROE GOT ELECTED AFTER THIS DEPRESSION ----->only president to be relcted after nationwide panic]]> 2017-10-11 18:19:18 UTC https://padlet.com/400016053/uu3f098mqk95/wish/196164243 400016053 https://padlet.com/400016053/uu3f098mqk95/wish/196169762 Melting pot of new immigrants looking for a new life in the west 
Reasons for westward expansion: 
1. cheap land in Ohio area
tobacco growth causes people to need to move west(exhaust the land) 
2. Suppressed Native forces through Battle of Fallen Timbers and Battle of Tippecanoe 
3. TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTION!---->improved land routes
-Cumberland route in Ohio river Valley
-Steamboat enabled river travel to be fast/easy
-canals for east west trade
*The west tried to create wildcat banks to stop the National Bank and get cheaper money ]]> 2017-10-11 18:28:10 UTC https://padlet.com/400016053/uu3f098mqk95/wish/196169762 400016053 https://padlet.com/400016053/uu3f098mqk95/wish/196172948 Henry Clay's comprise 
   Provisions: 
            a. Congress agreed to admit Missouri as a slave state. 
            b. Maine was admitted as a free-soil state. 
                -- Balance kept at 12 to 12 for the next 15 years. 
            c. Future slavery prohibited north of 36-30' line, the southern border of Missouri. 
              *Missouri was north of the 36-30 line. 
        3. Compromise was largely accepted by both sides 
            a. South got Missouri 
            b. North won concession that it could forbid slavery in the remaining territories above 36-30 line 
*North not worried bc spanish territories in South west prevented movement of slavery west  
*Southerners not concerned of lands north of 36-30 as lands not able to have slave-labor cash crop agriculture. 
 Legacy 
        1. Lasted 34 years and preserved the union (until the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854) 
        2. slavery became issue in American politics. 
            -- Serious setback to national unity 
        3. South began to develop a sectional nationalism
4. End of compromise in the 1850s resulted in civil war.]]> 2017-10-11 18:33:45 UTC https://padlet.com/400016053/uu3f098mqk95/wish/196172948 400016053 https://padlet.com/400016053/uu3f098mqk95/wish/196181894  Written by John Quincy Adams---convinced Monroe of his thought Process
  Included:
       i.  Colonial  powers could keep their existing colonies but gain no new ones.
      ii. Nonintervention in the Americas; let new republics govern themselves
       iii. Directed primarily at Russia, whom the U.S. feared would threaten the Pacific coast
*Most famous expression of American nationalism during the era.
      i. Nationalistic Americans widely supported the proclamation.
      ii.Maintained Washington's tradition of avoiding an "entangling alliances."
 Foreign reaction
       1.British reaction mixed.
             -- Canning concerned Monroe Doctrine aimed at Britain as well.
             -- British press favored protection of Latin American markets.
        2. European monarchs mad...wanted to go back to traditional gov
        3. Latin American countries saw  U.S. protecting its own interests. Immediate impact:
         - U.S. army and navy remained small and relatively weak
          -Not until 1845 did Polk revive it and did it become more important
Long-term impact:
  *Monroe Docrtine became cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy
    during last half of 19th century and throughout 20th century.
*****John Quincy Adams one of most significant secretaries of state in U.S. history. 
            a. Oversaw Convention of 1818 establishing U.S.-Canadian Border 
            b. Adams-Onis Treaty resulted in acquisition of Florida from Spain 
            c. Monroe Doctrine 
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