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A White Man’s Country

A White Man’s Country. 20% of Americans think doctors and the government want to vaccinate children despite knowing that vaccines cause autism. 33% of Americans think "humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time.".

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A White Man’s Country

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  1. A White Man’s Country

  2. 20% of Americans think doctors and the government want to vaccinate children despite knowing that vaccines cause autism. 33% of Americans think "humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time."

  3. 37% of voters believe global warming is a hoax 13% of voters think Barack Obama is the anti-Christ

  4. Growth of Trade • More products • Greater variety • Greater amount • Beginning of mass production • Decline of home production

  5. Commercial Agriculture • Growing wheat, corn • Steel plow invented by Cyrus McCormick • Credit • Feeding eastern cities • Eastern farmers focus on dairy, fruits, veggies

  6. Urbanization • Greater interconnectedness (canals, railroads)

  7. Westward migration – “Manifest Destiny” (1845)

  8. Factory System • Craftsmen lose autonomy • Work split up into smaller tasks • Interchangeable parts • Clocks, guns, tools, shoes, etc. • Mechanization • British technology stolen

  9. Immigration • Most from Ireland, Germany • Most went to the North • Only Baltimore, New Orleans, and St. Louis got many immigrants

  10. Why? • Peasants pushed off land • Industrialization costs craft jobs • Steamship, railroad make travel easier

  11. The Marketplace • New • Atomistic • Anonymous • Disorder • Anxiety for churches and families

  12. Individualism • Free labor • Your labor is your property • Sell it on the market • “Self-made man” • Possessive individualism

  13. Conundrum of Jacksonian Democracy • Expanding democracy • Expanding slavery in the cotton kingdom • Racist Andrew Jackson icon of the era • By 1840, 90% of white men could vote

  14. Big Picture • Jefferson succeeded by Madison and Monroe • Still from the revolutionary generation • Decolonization in South America • Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, etc. get independence

  15. Monroe Doctrine (1823)

  16. Problems with Expansion • Missouri fiasco splits North and South • Problem of dividing up Louisiana Purchase • Slave or free? • Already slaves there

  17. The Missouri Compromise • Compromise: • Maine admitted as free state • Missouri as slave • Slavery prohibited in all territory north of 36°30′ latitude • Guys like Jefferson and John Quincy Adams knew it was a danger to the Union

  18. Enter “Old Hickory”

  19. Andrew Jackson • Hero of New Orleans/War of 1812 • Ran for president in 1824 • Won popular vote but failed to win majority in Electoral College

  20. Lost to John Quincy Adams • Son of 2nd president • aristocratic New Englander • intellectual • not a very good politician • wanted the govt to do a lot

  21. Jackson Strikes Back • 1828 victory revolutionizes politics • Well-organized political parties • Founding of Democratic Party • Most white men can vote • Patronage

  22. Jackson’s Ideas • Limited government • Popular participation in govt for white men • Opportunity for whites, but definitely not Indians and blacks

  23. Democrats Worry about Inequality • Industrialization, growing commerce • Suspicion toward bankers, merchants, speculators • Supported by small farmers, aspiring businessmen, urban workers

  24. New Opposition: the Whig Party • Believed in progress • Tariff to protect industries • Active federal govt • Supported by rich planters, already-successful merchants and bankers, Northerners

  25. Battles of the Jackson Era • Southerners didn’t like tariff, threaten “nullification”

  26. Indian Removal • Expansion of cotton production • Pushes into Indian lands in the South • Cherokees, Choctaws and other “civilized tribes” screwed • Georgia expels them

  27. The Trail of Tears • Supreme Court (1832): removal violates treaties with federal govt • “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it” – Jackson • 18,000 Cherokees forced to move in 1838-9 • 1/4 die on the wayto Oklahoma

  28. Seminoles in FL Keep Fighting • Second Seminole War (1835-1842) • Indians, escaped slaves join forces • 1,500 US soldiers die • Similar # of Seminoles • Most forced to leave

  29. First Whig president elected in 1840 • Another military hero: William Henry Harrison • Dies in office after thirty days • Total fiasco • His successor disagrees with Whigs on everything

  30. Recap: What the Hell Happened? • Democratization mostly benefits white men • Economic growth, westward expansion on the backs of Indians and slaves

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