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 * Key Concept 4.1: **The United States began to develop a modern democracy and celebrated a new national culture, while Americans sought to define the nation’s democratic ideals and change their society and institutions to match them.

Topics on the Page
 * 1) ** Washington, Hamilton and the Shaping of the National Government **
 * 2) ** Emergence of Political Parties and Republicans **
 * 3) ** Republican Motherhood and Education of Women **
 * 4) ** Beginnings of the Second Awakening **
 * 5) ** Significance of Jefferson's Presidency **
 * 6) ** Expansion into the Trans-Appalachian West; American Indian Resistence **
 * 7) ** Growth of Slavery and Free Black Communities **
 * 8) ** The War of 1812 and its Consequences **
 * ** See Dramatic Event page on Early American Foreign Policy and the Barbary Pirates **

**For more resources, see U.S. History I.11 and Government 1.3**
**__1. Washington, Hamilton, and the Shaping of the National Government:__** See Massachusetts U.S. History I.22 for material on the Presidencies of George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson


 * Image to the right is the Statue of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Marshall **

__2. Emergence of political Parties: Federalists and Republicans:__
See Massachusetts U.S. History I.22 for material on the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans

See Wikimedia Commons for [|Presidential Election maps from 1789 to 2004].

For more on political parties, see

 * === United States Government.3.7 ===
 * ===** United States History I.20 **===
 * ===** United States History II.5 **===
 * ===** Political Parties and Elections **===

[[image:Female_Rose.png]]3. Republican Motherhood and education for Women:

 * "Republican Motherhood"- ushistory.org
 * Abigail Smith Adams - The White House
 * The History of Women and Education - National Women's History Museum
 * "Abigail and John Adams Discuss Women and Republican Government 1776"- Lesson plan by Renata Fengler as part of the “Documenting American History” project

__4. Beginnings of the Second Awakening:__

 * The Second Great Awakening - Ohio History Center
 * The Second Great Awakening and Rise of Evangelicalism - "Liquid Fire Within Me": Language, Self and Society in Transcendentalism and early Evangelicalism, 1820-1860 by By Ian Frederick Finseth at University of Virginia
 * Religious Transformation and the Second Great Awakening - ushistory.org
 * Religion and the New Republic - The Library of Congress

__5. Significance of Jefferson's Presidency:__
See Massachusetts U.S. History I.22 for material on Jefferson's presidency

For a perspective that challenges the view of Jefferson as a benevolent slaveowner, see [|The Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson] from Smithsonian Magazine, a selection from //Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves//. Henry Wiencek (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012).

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 * See Massachusetts U.S. History I.22 for material on the Louisiana Purchase
 * See Massachusetts U.S. History I.26 for material on the causes, course, and consequences of America’s westward expansion and its growing diplomatic assertiveness.

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 * See Massachusetts U.S. History I.29 for material on the rapid growth of slavery in the South after 1800 and analyze slave life and resistance on plantations and farms across the South, as well as the impact of the cotton gin on the economics of slavery and Southern agriculture.
 * [|Growth and Entrenchment of Slavery] - PBS Narrative: Africans in the Americas
 * The Impact of Slavery - ushistory.org
 * The Growth of Delaware's Antebellum Free African American Community - By Peter T. Dalleo, University of Delaware 1997
 * [[image:primary_sources.PNG link="@http://abolition.nypl.org/essays/us_constitution/5/"]]The Act of 1807 was an effort by the United States Congress to close the slave trade.

__8. The War of 1812 and its Consequences:__

 * See Massachusetts U.S. History I.26 and AP U.S.9 for material on the war of 1812 and its consequences
 * Lessons on the War of 1812 - PBS: Commencement Level Lessons


 * ** See Dramatic Event page on Early American Foreign Policy and the Barbary Pirates **

[|War of 1812 Bicentiennial] from TeachingHistory.org

[[image:resourcesforhistoryteachers/rotating gif.gif width="66" height="66"]]**For more information on the War of 1812, see Massachusetts Grade 5.32**

 * [|President Madison's 1812 War Message]: 3 Lessons**

[|The War of 1812] from LearnAlberta in Canada features 9 interactive maps.

Click here for [|Temple of Liberty: Building the Capitol for a New Nation,] a virtual field trip from the Library of Congress.