Welcome to our module, on education and school reform, in the national period. >> In our next two episodes, we'll look at dramatic transformations in American society, in the national period. From the conclusion of the War of 1812 with Great Britain, to around 1850. >> Among these dramatic transformations, was an acceleration of the national market economy. Spurred by technological revolutions in transportation and communications. >> Paralleling the growth of new capitalist markets, and emerging industries, which caused no small amount of instability in the society. Was the second great awakening, a decades long, prairie fire of fervent Protestant revivalism, which swept across United States from the early 1800s to the 1840s. Moral fervor generated by the Protestant revivals, coupled with the fears of northern elites, for the survival of the republic, infused the rise of humanitarian social innovations and reform movements, intended to mitigate the harmful effects, of the national market economy, and stabilize a society, in the midst of dramatic transformation. >> Surrounded by the economic, religious, and political forces unleashed in U.S. society, many struggle with where schooling should fit into this restless expanding new nation. For some, the answer was to establish state systems of free, publicly funded schools, the common school movement. This became the bellweather social innovation of the national period. >> So let's turn now, to the national period. Starting with General Andrew Jackson, at the battle of New Orleans, in January, 1815. [MUSIC]