(Cultural High 1810 - 1828)
The New Republic [federalism]

Jeffersonian nationalism
Era of Good Feelings
Missouri Compromise
Monroe Doctrine
Clay Compromises
Marshall Court decisions


Madison - Monroe - Q Adams

The Four Turnings: Historical Topics
1810 - 1860

(Individual's Identification)
The Propertied Citizen

farmer - artisan - trader

(Awakenings 1830s - 1850s)
Second Great Awakening

Utopian Societies
Transcendentalism / abolition
temperance / Women's suffrage
penal / asylum / education reform
Jacksonian Democracy
Manifest Destiny


Jackson - Van Buren - Harrison (Tyler)

(aristocracy)
landed gentry and slavery

(Cultural Value)
heritage and property

(Civic Order)
The States

Union
Compact between States

(democratic zeal)
westward migration and "free soil"

(New Awakening Values)
self reliance and equal opportunity

  • War of 1812

  • Treaty of Ghent
  • Panic of 1819
  • Era of Good Feelings
  • Missouri Compromise

  • Lowell System

  • Monroe Doctrine
  • Canal Boom
  • "Corrupt Bargain"
  • National Road
  • Mormonism

  • Election of 1828

  • Nullification Crisis
  • War on the Bank
  • Nat Turner Rebellion
  • Texas Rebellion
  • Trail of Tears

  • Panic of 1837

  • Westward Migration
  • Seneca Falls
  • "fifty-four forty or fight"
  • Texas Statehood

(Old Values Reactionaries)
States' Rights advocates

Solid South / John C. Calhoun
Congressional gag rule
Nashville Convention
"fire eaters"

(The Unraveling)
(1845 - 1860)
sectionalism


"free soil"
control of the land


Polk - Taylor (Fillmore) - Pierce - Buchanan

(New Values Agitators)
abolitionists

The Liberator / William Lloyd Garrison
North Star / Frederick Douglass
Uncle tom's Cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe
"slave power conspiracy"

  • Ostend Manifesto

  • Nashville Convention
  • Lovejoy Murder
  • Mexican War Protest
  • Mexican War/Cession
  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  • California Gold Rush

  • Wilmot Proviso

  • Taylor and free soil
  • personal liberty laws
  • Prigg v. Penn.
  • Compromise of 1850
  • Fugitive Slave Act
  • senatorial balance

  • transcontinental railroad

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • popular sovereignty
  • "Beecher's Bibles"
  • "Bleeding Kansas"
  • Sack of Lawrence
  • Pottawatomie Massacre

  • Brooks/Sumner attack

  • Dred Scott Decision
  • Lincoln-Douglas Debates
  • John Brown / Harper's Ferry
  • Election of 1860
  • secession (lower South)
  • Crittenden Compromise fails
  • Fort Sumter attacked
  • secession (upper South)

Loosely based on The Fourth Turning, by William Strauss and Neil Howe - For one explanation of the argument visit Cycles in U.S. History

(Crisis 1861 - 1865)

Civil War (Outside DBQ Period)

(New Values Over Compensated 1865 - 1877)

Reconstruction (Outside DBQ Period)