Chapter 9A National Identity

Entry Task

• Sectionalism is defined as disagreements between different regions of the country.• Come up with a present day example of

sectionalism. • Would the people in your example go to war

over their beliefs?

Settling Disputes

• United States and British Canada both wanted naval and fishing rights on the Great Lakes.

• Rush-Bagot Agreement (1817) -limited naval power on Great Lakes for both.

• Now the two countries could live alongside one another peacefully

Settling Disputes• Argued over fishing rights off

Canada, fur trade in Oregon, and the U.S.–Canadian border

• Convention of 1818 allowed U.S. fishing off Canada and set the border between the United States and Canada at the 49th parallel as far west as the Rocky Mountains.

• United States and Britain agreed to share Pacific Northwest

Compromise- an agreement in which each side gives up some demands• 1. Brainstorm a list of topics

that are related to ECS and that have two sides

• 2. Get in to groups of 3-4 and work to figure out• 1. What are the main issues?• 2. What is a good

compromise?• 3. What must each side give

up?

• On a piece of paper• Names of all group members• Your assigned issue• Two sides• Compromise• What each side is giving up

Taking Florida• Secretary of State John

Quincy Adams talked with Spain’s Luis de Onís.• President James Monroe

sent troops to secure the border.• There was conflict with the

Seminoles over raids of U.S. settlements and runaway slaves.

Taking Florida• Andrew Jackson’s captured

Seminole raiders, beginning First Seminole War

• U.S. military overthrew Spanish governor of Florida.

• Spain and United States signed Adams-Onís Treaty in 1819;, and settled all border disputes.

• United States received East Florida, gave up claim to Texas, and agreed to pay U.S. citizens’ claims against Spain.

The Monroe Doctrine

• Latin American countries declared independence from Spain.

• Simon Bolívar led many of these revolutions.

• The United States feared European countries would take control of newly free countries.

• United States issued Monroe Doctrine.

• Warned European powers not to interfere in Americas

• Put Latin America in U.S. sphere of influence

4 Points of the Monroe Doctrine

1. U.S. would not interfere in the affairs of European Nations2. U.S. would recognize and not interfere with European

colonies that already existed in North and South America3. The Western Hemisphere was to be off limits to future

colonization by any foreign power4. The U.S would consider any European power’s attempt to

colonize or interfere with nations in the W. hemisphere to be a hostile act.

Section 2 Odds N’ Ends• Nationalism – Feelings of pride and loyalty to a nation.• Sectionalism – disagreements between different regions of the

country.

Erie Canal• Erie Canal – Transportation Route from Albany, NY to Buffalo,

NY

Missouri Compromise

• Missouri Compromise – settled the slavery question for free and slave states.

• Had three conditions:• Missouri would enter as a

slave state.• Maine would join as a free

state.• Slavery would be prohibited

in any new territories north of Missouri’s southern border.

American Writers• Washington Irving• Wrote about American

history• Used satire to warn

Americans they should learn from the past and be cautious about the future• Combined European

influences with American settings and characters

American Writers

• James Fenimore Cooper• Focused on American

characters and society• Wrote stories about the

western frontier and Native Americans• Popularized historical

fiction

Architecture• American architects built

buildings after the style of ancient Greece and Rome.• Admired old civilizations for

their democratic and republican ideals

Education• Early American political

leaders believed an educated populace was needed for democracy.

• The idea of state-funded public schools gained support.

• Massachusetts was the first state for public education.