7 2 Nationalism at Center Stage Gibbons v

7 -2: Nationalism at Center Stage

Gibbons v. Ogden decision What ideas did the measure contain? How did it promote nationalism? • In interstate commerce, state laws must yield to federal laws • By preventing states from acting in ways that hurt other states • The federal government has the power to regulate almost anything that moves across state lines

The Adams-Onis Treaty What ideas did the measure contain? • Spain ceded Florida to the U. S. • Spain disavowed any claims it had on the Oregon Territory How did it promote nationalism? • By expanding the nations territory

The Monroe Doctrine • What ideas did the measure contain? • European powers not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere by establishing colonies or attempting to overthrow newly independent republics • U. S. not to involve itself in European affairs or interfere with existing colonies • How did it promote nationalism? • By having the United States take an important step onto the world stage • By asserting national interests in international affairs • By preventing possible threats to the U. S. from Russia, Spain, and Portugal

The Missouri Compromise • What ideas did the measure contain? • How did it promote nationalism? • Maine admitted as a free state • By preserving sectional balance; by respecting the interests of both North and South • By preventing the nation from collapsing into sectionalism • Missouri admitted as a slave state • The rest of the Louisiana Territory split into two sections; south of the dividing line, slavery legal; north of the dividing line (except for Missouri), slavery banned

John Quincy Adams Jim Beckworth • Sixth president of the United States who established a foreign policy based on nationalism • A mountain man in the West who established a fur trade