Standards
SSUSH7 Investigate political, economic, and social developments during the Age of Jackson.
SSUSH8 Explore the relationship between slavery, growing north-south divisions, and westward expansion that led to the outbreak of the Civil War.
SSUSH8 Explore the relationship between slavery, growing north-south divisions, and westward expansion that led to the outbreak of the Civil War.
Above is a map of the American system. The north was industrial, the south farmed cash crops such as cotton, and the west mostly raised livestock.
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts. The cotton gin caused a boom in slavery. Interchangeable parts made it so that if you were to break one part of something you didn't have to purchase a completely new item, you could just replace the one part.
The Erie canal connected the east and the west. Settlers that lived in the west were able to send goods back down the canal to the east. The population in New York City almost doubled because of the canal.
Age of Jackson
Jackson increased white male suffrage by getting rid of property and tax restrictions.
Andrew Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830, authorizing the president to take Indian claimed lands within state borders, and send the indians to unsettled lands in the west.
Reformations
The Second Great Awakening:
Charles Finney led religious revivals, because in 1800 poverty, crime, and immorality were big issues.
Temperance Reform:
Alcohol was linked to crime, debt, domestic abuse, and unproductive workers.
Women played an important role and from 1820 to 1830 drinking fell sharply.
Abolitionism:
Reformers wanted to emancipate all slaves.
William Lloyd Garrison created The Liberator, a newspaper.
Fredrick Douglass was an escaped slave and popular critic of slavery.
Women's Rights:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the Seneca Falls Convention.
The Declaration of Sentiments said "All men and women are created equal."
They demanded the right to vote.
Education Reform:
Horace Mann demanded public schools and teacher training programs.
By 1850, all states had public schools.
Charles Finney led religious revivals, because in 1800 poverty, crime, and immorality were big issues.
Temperance Reform:
Alcohol was linked to crime, debt, domestic abuse, and unproductive workers.
Women played an important role and from 1820 to 1830 drinking fell sharply.
Abolitionism:
Reformers wanted to emancipate all slaves.
William Lloyd Garrison created The Liberator, a newspaper.
Fredrick Douglass was an escaped slave and popular critic of slavery.
Women's Rights:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the Seneca Falls Convention.
The Declaration of Sentiments said "All men and women are created equal."
They demanded the right to vote.
Education Reform:
Horace Mann demanded public schools and teacher training programs.
By 1850, all states had public schools.
Manifest Destiny
American people settled in Mexican Texas, and then later demanded independence.
American people wanted to settle west in Mexican lands. So, they fought over the land and America won.
Gold Rush
Poor Americans from the east headed west to find gold. There were also many asian immigrants and poor European immigrants that worked as laborers.