- Election of 1800
- The Jeffersonian Republic
- The Era of Good Feelings
- The Age of Jackson
- Transportation/Market Economy
- Antebellum Reform
- Mexican-American Reform
Key Concepts
1. The United States developed the world's first modern mass democracy and celebrated a new national culture, while Americans sought to define the nation's democratic ideals and to reform its institutions to match them.
2. Developments in technology, agriculture, and commerce precipitated profound changes in U.S. settlement patterns, regional identities, gender and family relations, political power, and distribution of consumers goods.
3. U.S. interest in increasing foreign trade, expanding its national borders, and isolating itself from European conflicts shaped the nation's foreign policy an spurred government and private initiatives.
Key Terms
- John Marshall
- Marbury v. Madison
- Louisiana Purchase
- Tecumseh
- Transportation Revolution
- Utopian Communities
- Antebellum Reform
- Lowell System
- Slave Codes
- Hudson River School
- Second Great Awakening
- William Lloyd Garrison
- Frederick Douglass