Unit 6 - Nationalism and Sectionalism

Representative Henry Clay helped create the American System

Part #1 Put a protective tariff on imported goods to protect American industry

Part #2 Establish a national bank with a single currency

Part #3 Improve our transportation system of roads, bridges, canals, and later railroads

The Cumberland Road, National Road, and the Erie Canal helped connect Americans and allowed our goods to be brought to market

Sectionalism is loyalty to the region of the country you live in instead of the nation as a whole

The South created a slave economy and the North created an industrial and farming economy

Missouri wants to become a slave state, but it would upset the balance of free and slave state senators

Maine is admitted as a free state and Missouri as a slave state

Any new states created could not be slave above the 36'30 latitude which is Missouri's southern border

This was known as the Missouri Compromise

There were four presidential candidates in the Election of 1824 all belonging to the same political party (National Republicans)

War hero Andrew Jackson had the most popular votes, but no one was able to get a majority of electoral votes

The House of Representatives voted for John Q. Adams

Adams was helped by Henry Clay because Clay was speaker of the house and knew many of the representatives and in return Adams made Clay Secretary of State

The last four presidents were Secretaries of State and then became president

Jackson called Clay's support and new job a "Corrupt Bargain"

Andrew Jackson and his supporters created a new political party called the Democrats