Industry and Transportation

James Monroe

• Became 5th President• “ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS” began… little political strife• Monroe Doctrine, 1823 – Told European nations not

to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere• Henry Clay developed the “AMERICAN SYSTEM”• North and South would work together• North would turn out manufactured goods• South would turn out agricultural goods

Missouri Compromise• A debate occurred regarding the

statehood of Missouri• Slavery was at stake• Missouri was not covered by the

Northwest Ordinance• An extra slave state would mean

more power for the South• Missouri Compromise• Missouri would be admitted as a

slave state• Maine would be cut from old

Massachusetts, thus keeping balance

• All new western lands north of 36o N would be free (north of Missouri’s southern border)

Growing Nation

• Population Boom• Population exploded

between 1780 and 1830• Immigration and slave

trade contributed little to boom

• 90% of boom because of an increase in childbearing

• Pioneers moved out West

• Pioneers moved out West• America acquired Florida• Pinckney’s Treaty (1795)

compelled Spain to control Native Americans in Florida

• Seminoles raided settlers in Georgia

• Spain, dealing with rebellions in South America, did nothing

• America accused Spain of breaking Pinckney’s Treaty

• Andrew Jackson sent in to deal with Seminoles

• Spain decided Florida is lost and figures they should try to get something for the land they know is already lost

• ADAMS-ONIS TREATY – Spain ceded Florida to the United States

Industrial Revolution• Samuel Slater – Brought

textiles to the U.S.• Noah Webster - Promoted

education including Book of Spelling

• Eli Whitney• Advocated interchangeable

parts to increase profit and production

• Invents Cotton Gin• Cotton profits skyrocketed

making cotton “KING”• More slave labor became

needed

Transportation• Erie Canal (1825) built • Paid for by New York• 365 miles connecting

Hudson River to Lake Erie• Cumberland Road built• First “national road”• Connected Maryland to

Columbus, Ohio• Robert Fulton used James

Watt’s steam engine to power boats

Social Life

• Farming became even bigger in the South, while the North began to develop factories for production

• Second Great Awakening (early 1800’s)• Was an Evangelical Movement• Began in Kentucky and Tennessee• Protestants• Believed scripture is final authority• Believed that only belief in Jesus yields salvation• Believed that doing good deeds could transform your

life• Baptists experience rapid growth