Chapter 9: Nation Building and Nationalism

Chapter 9: Nation Building and Nationalism focuses on:


 * Expansionism
 * Transportation
 * Economics
 * Politics after the War of 1812

Section Headings

 * 1) Introduction: A Revolutionary War Hero Revisits America in 1824 (251)
 * 2) Expansion and Migration (252)
 * 3) Extending the Boundaries (252)
 * 4) Native American Societies Under Pressure (254)
 * 5) Settlement to the Mississippi (257)
 * 6) The People and Culture of the Frontier (260)
 * 7) A Revolution in Transportation (261)
 * 8) Roads and Steamboats (261)
 * 9) The Canal Boom (263)
 * 10) Emergence of a Market Economy (264)
 * 11) The Beginning of Commercial Agriculture (264)
 * 12) Commerce and Banking (265)
 * 13) Early Industrialism (266)
 * 14) The Politics of Nation Building after the War of 1812 (268)
 * 15) The Republicans in Power (268)
 * 16) Monroe as President (269)
 * 17) The Missouri Compromise (269)
 * 18) Postwar Nationalism and the Supreme Court (271)
 * 19) Nationalism in Foreign Policy: The Monroe Doctrine (272)
 * 20) Conclusion: The End of the Era of Good Feeling