To do this, you must select all of the text and then select "Print Selection" from the printer options. Q : "Why did you create this site? History course myself, I typed up all of my notes for The American Pageant. When many of my classmates started to ask for the notes, I created a Geocities website to post them.
Soon, the small amount of free bandwidth limited the capacity of the site Due to the positive feedback from users, I have maintained this site to better serve students' needs. Q : "How do I cite the text for class, papers, etc? Q : "I found a mistake in the notes.
How can I let you know? Q : "Does APNotes. After more land invasions were hurled back in , the Americans, led by Oliver Hazard Perry, built a fleet of green-timbered ships manned by inexperienced men, but still managed to capture a British fleet.
In , 10, British troops prepared for a crushing blow to the Americans along the Lake Champlain route, but on September 11, , Capt. Thomas MacDonough challenged the British and snatched victory from the fangs of defeat and forced the British to retreat. The news of this British defeat reached Washington early in February , and two weeks later came news of peace from Britain.
During the war, the American navy had oddly done much better than the army, since the sailors were angry over British impressment of U. However, Britain responded with a naval blockade, raiding ships and ruining American economic life such as fishing. The Treaty of Ghent At first, the confident British made sweeping demands for a neutralized Indian buffer state in the Great Lakes region, control of the Great Lakes, and a substantial part of conquered Maine, but the Americans, led by John Quincy Adams, refused.
As American victories piled up, though, the British reconsidered. The Treat of Ghent, signed on December 24, , was an armistice, acknowledging a draw in the war and ignoring any other demands of either side. Each side simply stopped fighting. The main issue of the war, impressment, was left unmentioned.
Federalist Grievances and the Hartford Convention As the capture of New Orleans seemed imminent, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Rhode Island secretly met in Hartford from December 15, to January 5, , to discuss their grievances and to seek redress for their wrongs. Three special envoys from Mass.
The Hartford Convention proved to be the death of the Federalist Party, as their last presidential nomination was trounced by James Monroe in The Second War for American Independence The War of was a small war involving some 6, Americans killed or wounded, and when Napoleon invaded Russia in with , men, Madison tried to invade Canada with about 5, men.
Yet, the Americans proved that they could stand up for what they felt was right, and naval officers like Perry and MacDonough gained new respect; American diplomats were treated with more respect than before. Manufacturing also prospered during the British blockade, since there was nothing else to do.
Incidents like the burning of Washington added fuel to the bitter conflict with Britain, and led to hatred of the nation years after the war, though few would have guessed that the War of would be the last war America fought against Britain. Many Canadians felt betrayed by the Treaty of Ghent, since not even an Indian buffer state had been achieved, and the Indians, left by the British, were forced to make treaties where they could.
The North American Review debuted in , and American painters painted landscapes of America on their canvases, while history books were now being written by Americans for Americans.
Washington D. In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong! It was not high enough, but it was a great start, and in , Henry Clay established a program called the American System. The system began with a strong banking system. It advocated a protective tariff behind which eastern manufacturing would flourish. It also included a network of roads and canals, especially in the burgeoning Ohio Valley, to be funded for by the tariffs, and through which would flow foodstuffs and raw materials from the South and West to the North and East.
He straddled the generations of the Founding Fathers and the new Age of Nationalism. Early in , Monroe took a goodwill tour venturing deep into New England, where he received heartwarming welcomes.
However, seeds of sectional troubles were planted. Notably, the South did not like the tariff saying it only benefited the North and made the South pay higher prices. A major cause of the panic had been over-speculation in land prices, where the Bank of the United States fell heavily into debt. Oddly, this started an almost predictable chain of panics or recessions. An economic panic occurred every 20 years during the s panics occurred during , , , , The West was especially hard hit, and the Bank of the U.
There was also attention against the debtors, where, in a few overplayed cases, mothers owing a few dollars were torn away from their infants by the creditors.
Growing Pains of the West Between and , nine frontier states had joined the original The Cumberland Road, begun in and ran ultimately from western Maryland to Illinois. And, the first steamboat on western waters appeared in The West, still not populous and politically weak, was forced to ally itself with other sections, and demanded cheap acreage.
Slavery and the Sectional Balance Sectional tensions between the North and the South came to a boil when Missouri wanted to become a slave state. Although it met all the requirements of becoming a state, the House of Representatives stymied the plans for its statehood when it proposed the Tallmadge Amendment, which provided that no more slaves be brought into Missouri and also provided for the gradual emancipation of children born to slave parents already in Missouri this was shot down in the Senate.
Angry Southerners saw this as a threat figuring that if the Northerners could wipe out slavery in Missouri, they might try to do so in all of the rest of the slave states. Plus, the North was starting to get more prosperous and populous than the South. The Uneasy Missouri Compromise Finally, the deadlock was broken by a bundle of compromises known as the Missouri Compromise. Missouri would be admitted as a slave state while Maine would be admitted as a free state, thus maintaining the balance it went from 11 free states and 11 slave states to 12 and Both the North and South gained something, and though neither was totally happy, the compromise worked for many years.
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