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Nationalism and Sectionalism

Nationalism and Sectionalism. Economic Growth v. Division. Economic Nationalism. Ambitious program to bring the nation together Included: A New National Bank Protect American Manufacturer’s against foreign competition Building canals and roads to improve transportation . National Bank.

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Nationalism and Sectionalism

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  1. Nationalism and Sectionalism Economic Growth v. Division

  2. Economic Nationalism • Ambitious program to bring the nation together • Included: • A New National Bank • Protect American Manufacturer’s against foreign competition • Building canals and roads to improve transportation

  3. National Bank • Republicans originally opposed the idea of a national bank. • State banks during the War of 1812 wrote “bad” notes • The new legislation gave the Bank: • The power to issue notes • Notes would be national currency • The national bank would control state banks

  4. Nationalism becomes Sectionalism

  5. Causes of the Industrial Revolution • Protective Tariffs

  6. PROTECTive Tariff • Tax on imported goods • Meant to PROTECT American manufacturing by increasing the cost of imported goods • Tariff of 1816

  7. Causes of the Industrial Revolution • Protective Tariffs • Free Enterprise

  8. Free Enterprise • Individuals acquire capital (money) and decide what to do with it • Companies in competition

  9. Causes of the Industrial Revolution • Protective Tariffs • Free Enterprise • Factory System

  10. Factory System • Replaced home-based workshops • Faster, more efficient production

  11. Causes of the Industrial Revolution • Protective Tariffs • Free Enterprise • Factory System • Technological Advances

  12. Technological Advances • Interchangeable parts = manufacturing shifts from hand tools to complex machines • Cotton Gin = increase need in slavery = increased tensions between the north and the south

  13. Causes of the Industrial Revolution • Protective Tariffs • Free Enterprise • Factory System • Technological Advances • Transportation Revolution

  14. Transportation Revolution Controversial in the government, start of sectionalism • John Calhoun (Rep. from South Carolina) sponsored a federal internal improvement plan • Vetoed by Madison • Argued that spending money to improve transportation was not granted in the Constitution • Construction soon began, funded by states and private companies.

  15. Transportation Revolution • Roads: National Road

  16. Transportation Revolution • Canals

  17. Transportation Revolution • Railroads: “Iron Horse”

  18. Effects of the Industrial Revolution • Rise of Large Cities

  19. Rise of Large Cities • Advantage: opportunities for different occupations • Disadvantages: dirty, crowded, disease, fire, crime, lack of local government = future corruption under political machines

  20. Effects of the Industrial Revolution • Rise of Large Cities • Workers begin to Unionize

  21. Unions • Worker organizations bargaining for: • BETTER pay • BETTER hours • BETTER conditions • Little success in the beginning: unions were seen as “unlawful conspiracies that limited free enterprise”

  22. Effects of the Industrial Revolution • Rise of Large Cities • Workers begin to Unionize • Growth of Industrial North

  23. Industry in the North • Began in the Northeast • Swift-flowing streams provided factories with waterpower • Area was home to many entrepreneurs and merchants who were willing to invest • Industrialists soon applied factory techniques to the production of lumber, shoes, leather, wagons, etc.

  24. Effects of the Industrial Revolution • Rise of Large Cities • Workers begin Unification • Growth of Industrial North • Growth of Land of Cotton, South

  25. Land of Cotton, South • Production of cash crops • Tobacco, Rice, COTTON

  26. Cotton is King • Eli Whitney builds the Cotton Gin • Quickly and efficiently combed the seeds out of cotton bolls • Textile mills expanded in Europe = EXPORTS • 6,000 bales to 100,000 bales • In 1860 Southern cotton sold for a total of $191 million in European markets, 2/3 of the total export trade from the US • Demand for slave labor skyrocketed

  27. CAUSES EFFECTS 1. Rise of Cities 1. Protective Tariffs Advantages: jobs 2. Free Enterprise THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Disadvantages: Crime & Corruption 4. Factory System 2. Unions Response: Not Recognized 5. Technological Advances 3. Growth of Industry in North 6. Transportation Revolution SECTIONALISM 4. Land of Cotton in South

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