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Period 4: 1800-1848

The rise of political parties and the era of Jefferson

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Jefferson's presidency and the turn of the nineteenth century
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The election of 1800
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The War of 1812
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The Louisiana Purchase and its exploration
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The rise of political parties and the era of Jefferson
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Politics and regional interests

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The presidency of John Quincy Adams
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Indian Removal
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Politics and regional interests
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America on the world stage

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The Monroe Doctrine
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America on the world stage
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Quiz 1

Identify your areas for growth in these lessons:
The rise of political parties and the era of Jefferson
Politics and regional interests
America on the world stage

Market Revolution: industrialization

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The Market Revolution - textile mills and the cotton gin
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The Market Revolution - communication and transportation
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Market Revolution: industrialization
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Market Revolution: society and culture

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The Market Revolution - impact and significance
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Irish and German immigration
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Women's labor
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Market Revolution: society and culture
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Expanding democracy

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Expanding democracy
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Jackson and federal power

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Jacksonian Democracy - background and introduction
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Jacksonian Democracy - the "corrupt bargain" and the election of 1824
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Jacksonian Democracy - mudslinging and the election of 1828
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Jacksonian Democracy - spoils system, Bank War, and Trail of Tears
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The presidency of Andrew Jackson
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The Nullification crisis
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Jackson and federal power
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Quiz 2

Identify your areas for growth in these lessons:
Market Revolution: industrialization
Market Revolution: society and culture
Expanding democracy
Jackson and federal power

The development of an American culture

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Transcendentalism
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The development of an American culture
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Second Great Awakening

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The Second Great Awakening - origins and major ideas
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The Second Great Awakening - influence of the Market Revolution
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The Second Great Awakening - reform and religious movements
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Second Great Awakening
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An age of reform

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The early temperance movement - origins
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The early temperance movement - spread and temporary decline
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Women's rights and the Seneca Falls Convention
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An age of reform
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Quiz 3

Identify your areas for growth in these lessons:
The development of an American culture
Second Great Awakening
An age of reform

African Americans in the early republic

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African Americans in the early republic
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The society of the South in the early republic

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The society of the South in the early republic
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Causation in the period from 1800 to 1848

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Developing an American identity, 1800-1848
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Unit test

Test your understanding of Period 4: 1800-1848 with these 12 questions.

About this unit

In the early nineteenth century, the United States expanded rapidly, fueled by new technology, growing markets, and the extension of democracy to all white men. But this prosperity came at a cost, gobbling up the lands of Native Americans in the West and the labor of enslaved people in the South.