2. Describe three ways post-war nationalism manifested itself.
Post-war nationalism manifested itself in the creation of national literature, finance, and manufacturing. Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper gained international recognition in the 1820s as the nation’s first writers of importance to use American scenes and themes. School textbooks and magazines such as the North American Review were now being published by Americans for Americans. …show more content…
4. What did British manufacturers attempt to do at the end of the War of 1812 & how did the U.S. Congress respond to this issue?
At the end of the War of 1812, British manufacturers attempted to recover lost ground. They began to dump the contents of their warehouses on the United States, often cutting their prices below cost in an effort to strangle the American war-baby factories. The U.S. Congress responded by passing the Tariff of 1816, the first tariff in American history instituted primarily for protection, not revenue.
7. What is the name of Henry Clay’s scheme for developing the U.S. economy & what are the three parts of his plan?
Henry Clay threw himself behind an elaborate scheme for developing the U.S. economy known as the American System by 1824. This system had three main parts. It began with a strong banking system, which would provide easy and abundant credit. Clay also advocated a protective tariff, behind which eastern manufacturing would flourish. Revenues gushing from the tariff would provide funds for the third component of the American system, a network of roads and canals, especially in the Ohio Valley. Through these new arteries of transportation would flow foodstuffs and raw materials from the South and West to the North and East. In exchange, a stream of manufactured goods would flow in the return direction, …show more content…
Include how many years the compromise lasted. Be thorough here.
The Missouri Compromise, passed in 1820 included a bundle of three compromises. Henry Clay of Kentucky played a leading role in crafting this bundle of three bills. Congress, despite abolitionist pleas, agreed to admit Missouri as a slave state. But at the same time, free-soil Maine, which until then had been a part of Massachusetts, was admitted as a separate state. The balance between North and South was therefore kept at twelve states each and remained there for fifteen years. Although Missouri was permitted to keep slaves, all future bondage was prohibited in the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase north of the line of 36° 30', the southern boundary of Missouri. This horse-trading adjustment was politically evenhanded, though denounced by extremists on each side as a “dirty bargain.’’ Both the North and South yielded and gained something. The South won the prize of Missouri as an unrestricted slave state and the North won the concession that Congress could forbid slavery in the remaining territories. The fact that the immense area north of 36° 30', except Missouri, was forever closed to the blight of slavery was gratifying to many northerners. Yet the restriction on future slavery in the territories was not unduly offensive to the slaveowners, partly because the northern prairie land did not seem suited