Unit 3 – Era of Good Feelings

Expansion and ReformRegional Differences, Industrial Revolution,

President Monroe, and Henry Clay

After the War of 1812

• Era of Good Feelings– American Nationalism goes up – Why?

Nationalism

• Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper – American scenes in writing

• Schools have American Textbooks• Magazines and newspapers• Revived the Bank of the US• New capital• Expanded army• Stronger navy

THE AMERICAN SYSTEM

• Henry Clay (The Great Compromiser)

The American System

• Promoted by “Henry Clay” (War Hawk)• PURPOSE: to unify the two economies (North

and South) / receive economic independence from other countries in the world

• 3 Parts to American SystemRemember: P.I.N.

3 Parts of American System by Henry Clay (PIN)

• Protective tariff – Madison’s Tariff of 1816 – taxing imports to protect

made in the USA = manufacturing could flourish• Internal Improvements– Transportation - National Road and the Erie Canal =

easy travel• National Bank of the United States– Downsized by President Jefferson years earlier– Purpose – stabilize currency and hold government

funds = easy credit

President Monroe

• Election of 1816– No Federalists would ever

run for president again• Era of Good Feelings– One political party –

Democratic Republican– Continued the Virginia

Dynasty

Goodwill Tour of New England

• New England = Federalists

Tariff of 1816

• HIGH tax on imported items

• Meant to save our factories from the British, who were selling items at 20 – 50 % off

Panic of 1819

• National Bank – Lent money to Americans who

moved west– 1819 – Great Britain demanded US

repay British loans– US recalled (asked for repayment)

their loans– People rushed and withdrew $– Led to the nation’s first depression

Go West, Young Man, Go West

• Encouragement : – Cheap land – Land Act of 1820– Cheap transportation– Cheap $$$

Sectionalism - Slavery

North SouthManufacturing AgricultureHired immigrants Slave laborSee slavery as a moral issue

Think immigrants working in the factories were as bad as plantation life

Issues with Expansion• Tallmadge Amendment– No more slaves brought

to Missouri– Gradual emancipation

of children born to slavery

• Missouri Compromise– Missouri = slave– Maine = free– 36°30 - no slavery ′

allowed above that line

36°30′• Why was it not a bigger deal?

Marshall Court

• Increased the power of the federal government– Marbury v. Madison – judicial review– McCullough v. Maryland – national bank is

constitutional and supremacy clause = federal gov’t is supreme

– Gibbons v. Ogden – federal gov’t regulates interstate trade

Marbury v. Madison

McCullough v. Maryland

Gibbons v. Ogden

Treaty of 18181. Shared Newfoundland fisheries with Canada2. Fixed N. limits of Louisiana Territory at 49th

parallel3. Oregon – 10 yr. joint occupation

Florida Purchase Treaty 1819 Adam’s Onis Treaty

• Florida ceded by Spanish

Monroe Doctrine 1823

• Covered North, Central and South America

1. Non – colonization (Russia/Spanish)

2. Non – intervention (keep out!)

Russo-American Treaty 1824

• Russian limit @ 54°40 N ′

The End!!!