AHIS 100
The US and the World
Dr. Kane
mkane2@albany.edu
Office Hrs: W 10:30-11:30 & F 11:30-12:30
Social Science 60S
maevekane.net/ahis100/lecture-slides
October 19
last week
- internal political and economic issues settled, social issues not settled
- expansion of US and relations with Indians
- Shays' Rebellion and Whiskey Rebellion
- French and Haitian Revolutions
- a govt OF the people or BY the people?
today's class
- internal & political - emerging sectionalism
- external, political & economic - War of 1812
- internal, social & economic - labor & infrastructure
- internal, social & economic - slavery & industrialization
emerging sectionalism
- diplomatic, social and trade ties to Great Britain
- fearful of direct democracy
- pro strong central federal government - Federalist
- broad interpretation of federal powers in Constitution
- prioritization of manufacturing and banking
- diplomatic, social and trade ties to France
- pro direct democracy - for whites only
- anti strong central federal government - Republican
- strict interpretation of federal powers in Constitution
- protection of plantation slavery agriculture
- North
- South
Who won the War of 1812?
(full points no matter what answer)
- A. The US
- B. Britain
- C. Canada
- D. No one
War of 1812 - origins
- Jay's Treaty 1794 - England get out
- Britain outlaws slavery and slave trade 1808
- impressment of American (British) sailors
- Britain embargoes France, France embargoes Britain, US stuck in the middle
- annexation of Canada - balance between slave and free states
- American anxiety over Indians
course of the war
- New England disappointments in Canada
- 3/5ths compromise allows south to damage economy of North - British embargoes
- Burning of Washington Augusts 1814 brings NE and NY to discuss secession and peace with Britain
- Hartford Convention December 1814
- Britain prioritizes war with France - America is small potatoes
Monroe Doctrine - 1823
- Western hemisphere "sphere of interest"
- end to North American colonization
- future neutrality in European conflicts
- foundation of all modern international policy
results of the war
- 2nd American Revolution?
- achievement of post-Revolution goals - British forts, trade neutrality and impressment
- are there Americans in America?
- US comes out of British shadow politically, diplomatically and economically
How did the Erie Canal and other transportation projects change US economic development?
(more than one right answer)
- A. They made it affordable for Northern farms to export agricultural products overseas and to the South
- B. They became a focal point of anger at the increasingly strong central federal government
- C. They allowed eastern factories to sell their goods to western farmers
- D. They leveled the economic and political disparities between the North and South
- E. They allowed white settlers to travel to and claim Indian lands west of the Appalachins
rise of wage labor
- cotton gin makes cotton profitable
- cotton processed in northern factories
- Northern banks finance plantation slavery
- Northern shipping firms transport products of slavery
- US industrial development not possible without industrialization of slavery
ambivalence over abolition
- influence of Second Great Awakening
- international slave trade outlawed 1808
- growing free black communities
- fear of the successful Haitian Revolution
- Northern anger over 3/5ths compromise and Southern power
