How Americans expressed their burgeoning cultural independence through republican education, literature, and religious revivalism
The impact of industrialism on the United States and its people, particularly with regard to agricultural technology and transportation
The domestic questions and foreign entanglements of Thomas Jefferson's presidency, including Marbury v. Madison, the Louisiana Purchase, the settling of the West, and the impressment and embargo controversies
The response of the American people and their political system to the nation's physical expansion, and the reaction of Native American groups to this expansion
The growing conflict between British naval policies and American self-identity that led to the War of 1812, and its ultimate consequences for the young American nation
A thorough study of Chapter Seven should enable the student to understand the following:
The role of republican education in creating a "virtuous and enlightened citizenry"
The American cultural and nationalist aspirations beginning to emerge in the first two decades of the nineteenth century
The effects of the revolutionary experience on American religion, and the changing religious patterns that helped bring on the Second Great Awakening
The growing industrialism of America and the important advances made in technology and transportation during Jefferson's presidency, belying the simple, agrarian republic envisioned by the Jeffersonians
The political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson, and the extent to which he was able to adhere to his philosophy while president
The origins and compromises that led to the creation of Washington, D.C. as America's capital
The Jeffersonian-Federalist struggle over the judiciary—its causes, the main points of conflict, and the importance of the outcome for the future of the nation
President Jefferson's constitutional reservations concerning the Louisiana Purchase, and the significance of his decision to accept the bargain
The reasons for President Jefferson's sponsorship of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the importance of that expedition
The strange story of Aaron Burr, his duel with Alexander Hamilton, and his trial for "conspiracy"
The problems caused by Tecumseh's attempts at confederation and by the Spanish presence in Florida as Americans surged westward
The motivations behind Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's strategy of "peaceable coercion," and why it ultimately failed
The international events leading up to the War of 1812, and the domestic forces encouraging the war
The extent of the opposition to the American war effort, and the ways in which the New England Federalists attempted to show their objections
The end of the War of 1812, and the treaties accompanying it
The comparative role of the United States in the "global industrial revolution" that originated in Great Britain
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