The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

210 Chapter 7 National Growing Pains Congress doubled all tariffs. In 1816, when the rev- enue was no longer needed, a new act k ...

New Sectional Issues 211 bank. In October 1814 Secretary of the Treasury Alexander J. Dallas submitted a plan for a second Bank ...

212 Chapter 7 National Growing Pains 1819 there were twenty-two states, eleven slave and eleven free. The expansion of slavery o ...

New Leaders 213 certain compromises with his principles, which in turn plagued his oversensitive conscience and had a corrosive ...

214 Chapter 7 National Growing Pains arranging political compromises, but he possessed a reckless streak: Twice in his career he ...

The Missouri Compromise 215 Gulf of Mexico ATLANTIC PACIFIC OCEAN OCEAN BRITISH NORTH AMERICA LOUISIANA Arkansas Territory MISSO ...

216 Senate; Vice President Calhoun cast the deciding vote against the woolen tariff. Redoubling their efforts, the manufacturers ...

217 ATLANTIC OCEAN Gulf of Mexico Mi ss iss ipp iR . Savannah Charleston Nashville Salisbury Norfolk Baton Rouge Natchez Vicksbu ...

218 Chapter 7 National Growing Pains contemptuously described the land north and west of Missouri, today one of the world’s rich ...

The Meaning of Sectionalism 219 son of John Adams to do so was disastrous; every doubter remembered his Federalist background an ...

220 Chapter 7 National Growing Pains Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day, July 4, 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of ...

Chapter Review 221 Research and Explore Dolley Payne Madison to Lucy Payne Todd, p. 202 ReadtheDocument Hear the audio file for ...

Are you wearing anything made in the United States? 222 If you’re wearing socks, they were likely made in Datang, China, a small ...

Toward a National EconomyToward a National Economy 8 CONTENTS ■A view of Samuel Slater’s cotton textile mill at Pawtucket Falls ...

224 Chapter 8 Toward a National Economy Gentility and the Consumer Revolution The democratic revolution that led to the founding ...

An Industrial Proletariat? 225 Moses Brown brought Slater to Rhode Island to help run his textile-manufacturing operation. Slate ...

226 But economic growth during the 1820s and 1830s eroded the ties between masters and workers. Historian Paul Johnson (A Shopke ...

227 The Journey to Work, Philadelphia, 1850 During the next two decades, the expanding scale of manu- facturing operations made ...

228 Chapter 8 Toward a National Economy answer has been forthcoming. Some historians argue that the existence of the frontier si ...

Irish and German Immigrants 229 For a generation after the opening of the Merrimack Manufacturing Company in 1823, the thriving ...