An Era of Nationalism

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

Reading Skill: Understand EffectsNOTE TAKING

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

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

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

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.

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 doesn’t mention banks and therefore banks are not allowed to be created by Congress

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

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

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

Nationalism Influences Foreign Affairs

• The US would not permit any further colonization of the Western Hemisphere

• Top Ten most important Foreign Policy Decisions!

Nationalism Influences Foreign Affairs

• Those who have used the principle: – 1836 manifest destiny

(Pres Polk) Texas/West

– 1842 Hawaii– 1900’s Roosevelt

Corollary – 1962 Kennedy Cuban

Missile Crisis – 1980 Reagan

Salvaldor & Grenada

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

Daily Quiz

The Monroe Doctrine stated that

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

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

Nation Compromises Over Slavery

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

Missouri Compromise

• Henry Clay proposed a compromise

1. Slavery would not be restricted in Missouri, Maine will be admitted as a free state – keeps the balance of states 12 - 12

2. Territories north of 36 30N latitude in Louisiana Purchase would be closed to slavery

Missouri Compromise

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

Daily Quiz

According to the Missouri Compromise, slavery would be

allowed

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

Northern states objected to admitting Missouri as a slave

state because

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

The crisis over the Missouri Compromise exposed

• Growing sectionalism over the issue of slavery

Classroom Activity

Closure:

Inner Outer Circle • Monroe Doctrine & Missouri Compromise

Political Cartoon analysis: