Period 4: 1800 – 1848 – The Rise of Democracy (10%)

Beginning = Election of Thomas Jefferson (Rise of the Republicans) in 1800. Peaceful transition of power from Federalists to Republicans.

What do I need to know?

1. Why REGIONAL IDENTITIES arose between North, South, and West and how the MARKET REVOLUTION affected each region.
   1. Examples: Eli Whitney Cotton Gin, Transportation Revolution (Steamboats, National Road, etc), immigration and nativism, early factory system, support/opposition to slavery
2. How American society became more DEMOCRATIC (for white men) in the Jacksonian Age and how various social movements attempted to improve society.
   1. Examples: Second Great Awakening, Abolitionist Movement, Temperance, Seneca Falls Conference, Public Education, Jackson’s actions as president (Indian Removal, Death of B.U.S., etc.)
3. Reasons for Growth of POLITICAL PARTIES
   1. Examples: First Party System (Republicans and Federalists) changes to Second Party System (Democrats and Whigs), Loose vs Strict interpretation of Constitution, Anti-Jacksonians become Whigs, various third parties arose
4. The rise of the SLAVERY issue, and how slavery divided the country economically, socially, and politically beginning of SECTIONALISM
   1. Examples: American System, Tariff of Abominations, B.U.S., Missouri Compromise, Gag Rule
5. How States challenged FEDERAL authority, supremacy of federal government over the states
   1. Examples: Hartford Convention, Nullification Crisis, Marshall Supreme Court, Nullification, Force Act
6. America as a world power…or at least trying to be. =)
   1. Examples: War of 1812, Monroe Doctrine

End = Mexican/American War and Treaty of Guadalupe…HIDALGO (ends Mexican/American War)! 1848! Beginning of Sectionalism

Review Videos:

https://ap.gilderlehrman.org/period/4

https://www.apushreview.com/new-ap-curriculum/period-4-1800-1848/

Chapter Terms:

APUSH Period 4 Terms-1