01:510:261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dorr Rebellion, Economic Bubble, Internal Improvements
13 May 2018
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Chapter 10 - Democracy in America, 1815-1840
1. Triumph of democracy
1. Elimination of property qualifications for voting
1. Enfranchisement of wage-earning men
2. Popular pressures behind
3. Uneven pace of, state by state
4. Dorr War
2. Elements of democracy
1. Mass participation in politics
2. Liveliness of the public sphere
3. Democracy as "habit of the heart" (Alexis de Tocqueville)
4. Democracy as hallmark of American freedom
5. Democratic ideal as radical departure in Western thought
3. Boundaries of the political nation
1. Inclusion of laboring white men, immigrants
2. Exclusion of women, non-whites
3. Shift in criteria from economic status to natural capacity
4. Information revolution
1. Manifestations
1. Mass circulation of "penny press"
2. Variety of popular publications
3. "Alternative" newspapers
2. Contributing factors
1. New printing technologies
2. Low postal rates
3. Rise of political party organizations
3. New style of journalism
5. Women and public sphere
1. Areas of involvement
2. Areas of exclusion
6. Racial democracy
1. Growing equation of democracy and whiteness
2. Rise of racist stereotypes
3. Contraction of black rights
2. Nationalism and its discontents
1. The American System
1. Underlying vision
1. Enhancement of nation's financial, transportation, and
manufacturing sectors
2. Active role of federal government
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2. Leading architects
1. Henry Clay
2. John C. Calhoun
3. Precursors
1. Congressional approval of National Road
2. Gallatin plan for federal road and canal construction
4. 1815 blueprint
1. National bank
2. Tariff on imported manufactured goods
3. "Internal improvements" (road and canals)
5. Outcome
1. Enactment of tariff
2. Chartering of Second Bank of the United States
("Bank")
3. Veto of internal improvements
2. Functions and mission of Bank
3. Panic of 1819
1. Causes
1. Post-war speculative fever
1. Markets for American cotton and grain
2. Land boom in West
3. Easy credit from local banks and Bank
2. Ebbing demand for American exports, land
2. Material repercussions
1. Mass bankruptcy
2. Rising unemployment
3. Political repercussions
1. Growing popular distrust of banks
2. State measures to protect debtors, challenge Bank
3. McCulloch v. Maryland
4. Missouri controversy
1. Narrative
1. Missouri quest for statehood
2. Tallmadge proposal limiting slavery
3. Stalemate
4. First Missouri Compromise
1. Dual admission of Missouri and Maine
2. Prohibition of slavery above 36°30'
5. Second Missouri Compromise
2. Significance
1. Sectional conflict amid "Era of Good Feelings"
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