Ch. 7.

2 Nationalism at Center Stage

One American’s Story
• Clermont, Robert Fulton
• The steamboat helped unite the
economic life of the North and
South.
 1. The Supreme Court Boosts National Power
• Gibbons V. Ogden
• The Supreme Court gave the federal government power
to control interstate trade.
 A. Strengthening Government Economic Control
• McCulloch v. Maryland- An 1819 case
in which the Supreme Court ruled that
Maryland had no right to tax the Bank of
the United States, thereby strengthening
the power of the federal government’s
control over the economy.

B. Limiting State Powers

• Fletcher v. Peck- Nullified a Georgia
law that violated individuals’
constitutional right to enter contracts.
• Dartmouth College v. Woodward-
Supreme Court declared NH could
not revise its charter with trustees
because a charter was a contract.
 2. Nationalism Shapes Foreign Policy
• John Quincy Adams- Secretary of
State that established a foreign
policy based on nationalism.
• nationalism- The belief that national
interests should be placed ahead of
regional concerns or the interests of
other countries.
A. Territory and Boundaries
• The Rush-Bagot Treaty led the
U.S. and Canada to demilitarize
their common border.
• Oregon was occupied with Britain.
• Adams-Onis Treaty- An 1819
agreement in which Spain gave
control of the territory of Florida to
the U.S.
B. The Monroe Doctrine
• Monroe Doctrine- A policy of U.S.
opposition to any European interference
in the Western Hemisphere, in return
the U.S. would not involve itself in
European affairs.
 3. Nationalism Pushes America West
• Northwest Territory: Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin,
and Michigan.
A. Expansion to the West
• Most settlers moved West in
search of economic gain.
• land was cheap and abundant
B. Missouri Compromise
• The balance of free states and slave
states.
• 11 free states and 11 slave states.
• Missouri Compromise-
• Maine was admitted as a free state
and Missouri was admitted as a
slave state maintaining sectional
balance.
• The Louisiana Territory was split.
• North of the dividing line slavery
was illegal except in Missouri.
South of the line slavery was legal.