Transcript Era of Good Feelings

James Monroe and
“The Era of Good Feelings”
“The Era Of Good Feelings”
• “The Era of Good
Feelings” was a period of
national pride and political
peace associated with
James Monroe
• Jeffersonian Republicans
accept Hamilton’s
economic plans. Death of
Federalist party left only
Demo-Rep.!
UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL
•Helped negotiate the Louisiana
Purchase.
•Elected President in 1816 and
served from 1817 to 1825.
President James Monroe
• Spirit of Nationalism in US
patriotism or national oneness
Country is united, confident, and growing
1791-1819, 9 states joined the original 13.
• One political party---Republican party
• Respect from Europe
• Monroe first president to visit all states.
• Boston newspaper declared an “Era of Good
Feelings” had began.
But, time period was not free of problems.
The American System- Henry
Clay
• “American System” provided
• a protective tariff• create the 2nd National Bank
• improved road systems
• The National Bank was to
finance the building of road
systems and canal systems for
the U.S. economy
The National Road 1811
Eerie Canal- 1819
The American System-tariff
• Protective tariffs are
taxes that make
imported goods very
expensive, it is a way
of making American
goods desirable
because they are
cheap!
Monroe Doctrine- Background
• In Latin America, it is a period of revolution
and liberation.
• Chile, Venezuela, Mexico and Brazil have
gained their freedom from Spain and
Portugal. The United States recognizes
them as legitimate countries.
• America fears that other foreign countries
like France and Britain may now want to
control these countries in Latin America.
•New Latin American
countries were formed
from successful
revolutions.
•US protector of new
democracies in the
Western Hemisphere
Monroe Doctrine
• Warns European nations that they cannot
set up colonies or interfere in Latin
American problems anymore.
• The United States will protect North and
South America from any European
influence.
• The United States will not involve itself in
European affairs militarily or politically.
Western Hemisphere
or the Americas.
Monroe Doctrine Political
Cartoon
• Rush-Bagot Agreement (1817-18)
• Disarmament of the Great Lakes
• Treaty of 1818
• Shared Oregon Territory for 10 years
• the setting of the northern limits of the
Louisiana Territory at the 49th parallel
• US agreed to cede land above 49th parallel
• GB agreed to cede land below 49th parallel
49th Parallel
Rush-Bagot Treaty of
1818 with Great Britain
Adams-Onis Treaty of
1819 with Spain
Texas
Florida Becomes Part of US
• After War of 1812, Spain had
difficulty governing Florida
• Seminole Indians, runaway slaves,
and white outlaws conducted raids
into U.S. territory and retreated to
safety across the Florida border
•President Monroe commissioned General Andrew
Jackson to stop the raiders
–Jackson led a force into Florida, destroyed Seminole
villages, and hanged 2 Seminole chiefs
–Jackson captured Pensacola and drove out the Spanish
governor
• Adams-Onis Treaty (1818)
• Spain turned over
• western Florida along with all to the east
• Claims in the Oregon Territory to the U.S.
• US agreed
• to pay $5 million to Spain
• to give up any territorial claims to Texas
Adams-Onis Treaty
The Panic of 1819
• Largely the fault of the Second Bank of the
United States’ tightening of credit in an effort to
control inflation
• Many state banks closed
• The value of money fell
• There were large increases in unemployment,
bankruptcies, and imprisonment for debt
• Depression was most severe in the West
• The economic crisis changed many Western
voters’ political outlook
NORTHEAST
•Business and Manufacturing
____________
•Wanted Tariffs
•Backed internal
improvements
•Wanted end to cheap public
land
•Increasingly nationalistic
•Against Slavery and believed
the U.S. Govt. must abolish it.
SOUTH
•Cotton growing
_____________
•Opposed tariffs and government
spending on American System
•Increasingly supportive of states’
rights
•Pro-slavery and opposed any steps
of the U.S. Govt. to try and abolish
it.
WEST
•Frontier agriculture
_____________
•Supported internal
improvements
•Wanted cheap land
•Loyal to the U.S.
Govt.
•Against slavery but
some supported
letting the people
decide the slavery
issue
Reasons for the Missouri
Compromise of 1820
• As Americans to move
into the Mid-West,
territories begin to apply
for admittance in the
United States
• Northern and Southern
states begin to argue in
Congress about whether
or not new states should
be slave or free states
In 1819, Missouri, first part of the Louisiana
Purchase to apply for statehood
• Threatened balance of power in Congress
• 11 free states
• 11 slave states
• The Tallmadge amendment
• prohibited the further introduction of slaves into Missouri
• All slaves born in Missouri after the territory became a
state would be freed at the age of 25.
• Passed by the House, not in the Senate.
• The North controlled the House, and the South had enough
power to block it in the Senate.
The Missouri Compromise
Northern and South Perceptions
of the Compromise
• Northerners feel that
slavery should have been
stopped from expanding.
• DoI
• Aof- Northwest Ordinance
• Constitution
• Southerners fear that
compromising on the issue
of slavery will allow the
government to eventually
make laws against slavery.
The Corrupt Bargain
1. Election of 1824
J. Quincy Adams
Federalist tendencies
2. Split Republicans
“buck tails”
1826 – Democratic-Republicans
To what extent was Monroe’s Administration
aptly named the Era of Good Feelings?
Era of Good Feelings
Era of Bad Feelings