Economic revolution. Sectionalism and nationalism. Age of the common man. Democrats and Whigs. Diverging North and South.
Demographical tendencies in the 1820s and 1830s
Canals and railroads
Corporations
Factory system, Lowell mills
Tallmadge Amendment (1819), Thomas Amendment = Missouri Compromise (1820)
John Marshall (chief justice 1801-1835), Supreme Court and Indian tribes
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
National Republicans and Democratic Republicans
Age of the common man
Spoils system
Tariff of abomination (1828), nullification in South Carolina (1832-1833)
Indian Removal Act (1830), Trail of Tears, Great American Desert
Bank War (1829-1837)
Second party system: Democrats and Whigs
Specie circular (1836), Panic of 1837
Nativism, Know-Nothings
Cult of domesticity
Upper and lower South
Peculiar institution = slavery, Sambo, Nat Turner, underground rail-road
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