Jeffersonian Era-expansion of executive powers Supreme Court Rulings and Chief Justice Marshall Jacksonian Era- Banking, Sectionalism, Native Indian affairs Beginnings of sectionalism/regional differences Second Great Awakening and forbearing of reforms Development of the abolition movement Transportation and technical innovations Seneca Falls and women’s suffrage Migration to the and within the United States Agriculture as a political issue Period 5: 1844-1877 Topics: Expansion of foreign policy and world affairs Manifest Destiny Mexican-American War Anti-Immigration Movement Increase in Regional differences, politically, economically, agriculturally Expansion of abolition movement King Cotton Evolution of political parties States’ rights Abraham Lincoln-Homestead Act, Emancipation Proclamation Civil War Reconstruction-Radical Republicans, Freedman Bureau, Segregation, New Amendments Second Semester Course Outline: Period 6: 1865-1898 Topics: Massive technological changes, government expansion in domestic and international affairs, transcontinental railroad Mass immigration, growing labor force Urbanization, consumer leisure time, Jane Adams and settlement houses Party Machines, Party Bosses Gilded Age, Capitalism, Tycoons and Labor Unions Jim Crow Laws Native Indian Affairs Exploitation of natural resources Moving westward, boomtown, sod busting, mining towns suffrage social and political equality Women’s – Grangers, Populist Party, Cross of gold New Amendments Period 7: 1890-1945 Topics: Imperialism New technologies and manufacturing techniques cause massive consumerism Progressive Era and Political Reforms
Jeffersonian Era-expansion of executive powers Supreme Court Rulings and Chief Justice Marshall Jacksonian Era- Banking, Sectionalism, Native Indian affairs Beginnings of sectionalism/regional differences Second Great Awakening and forbearing of reforms Development of the abolition movement Transportation and technical innovations Seneca Falls and women’s suffrage Migration to the and within the United States Agriculture as a political issue Period 5: 1844-1877 Topics: Expansion of foreign policy and world affairs Manifest Destiny Mexican-American War Anti-Immigration Movement Increase in Regional differences, politically, economically, agriculturally Expansion of abolition movement King Cotton Evolution of political parties States’ rights Abraham Lincoln-Homestead Act, Emancipation Proclamation Civil War Reconstruction-Radical Republicans, Freedman Bureau, Segregation, New Amendments Second Semester Course Outline: Period 6: 1865-1898 Topics: Massive technological changes, government expansion in domestic and international affairs, transcontinental railroad Mass immigration, growing labor force Urbanization, consumer leisure time, Jane Adams and settlement houses Party Machines, Party Bosses Gilded Age, Capitalism, Tycoons and Labor Unions Jim Crow Laws Native Indian Affairs Exploitation of natural resources Moving westward, boomtown, sod busting, mining towns Women’s suffrage – social and political equality Grangers, Populist Party, Cross of gold New Amendments Period 7: 1890-1945 Topics: Imperialism New technologies and manufacturing techniques cause massive consumerism Progressive Era and Political Reforms