A new national identity

Why did the US experience a period of nationalism during President Monroe's presidency?

• The country had won a war against Great Britian and had a rapidly growing economy

• the country finished building roads, canals, and railroads connecting the north, south, and west.

What prompted President Monroe and Secretary of State Adams to isssue the Monroe Doctrine?

• the feared newly independent countries in Latin America would ask European countries for military help

• the feared theat european countries would try to convince the US to fight in European wars.

• the feared that European countries would try to establish new colonies in the Western Hemisohere

Nationalism or Sectionalism: "Land prices should be kept low to help farmers settle the West"

• Nationalism

• Sectionalism

a strong tariff protects industry in the Northeast and pays better transportation in the West and South.

• Nationalism

• Sectionalism

Constructing new canals and building better road connectws the different regions of the country more effectively.

• Nationalism

• Sectionalism

a national bank benefits wealthy ankers in the Northeast while settlers in the West cannot afford land

• Nationalism

• Sectionalism

What is an effect of the supreme court decisions in McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden?

• weakiening of the legislative branch

• reinforcment of doctrine of states rights

• reinforcement of the power of the federal government

• strenghtening of the executive and judicial branches

In the Missouri Comprmise, to maintain the balance free and slave, states _____ entered as a slave state, _____ entered as a free state, and slavery was banned north of 36*30 N latitude in the unorganized territory of the Lousiana Purchase.

• Arkansas

• Maine

• Kansas

• Missouri

• Minnesota

How did American writers and artists in the early 1800's differ from those int he 1700s

• they used distinctivly americal subjects

• they started using older styles and subject

• peanutbutter jelly time

what did Thomas Jefferson call for Americans to do out of admiration for Ancient Greece?

• learned to speak and write Greek

• modeled buildings after Greek and Roman styles

• applied american themes using old subjects