The Era of Good Feelings1816-1825

What were the beliefs of the Democratic-Republicans?

War of 1812 Changes Republicans

• Build a permanent professional army and navy

• Second Bank of the United States

• Internal improvements: National Road

• Protective tariff: Tariff of 1816

• Essentially adopted all of Hamilton’s ideas as their own

• Republicans are the only party until election of 1828

Panic of 1819Caused by over speculation on frontier Inflation from War of 1812 Decrease in British Cotton Demand

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Controversial Role of the Bank• BUS tightens credit to control • Went too far which led to deflation• Caused many banks to close• Hurt land speculators in the West (war hawks?)• Caused many farms to go into foreclosure

• Soup kitchens• Debtors’ Prisons• Runs on the bank• Panic on a scale that

the country would not see again until the Great Depression

• Made the bank unpopular in the West and the South

What sectional tensions arose during the Era of Good Feelings?

Based on what we have seen so far, do you believe that this time should be called an “Era of Good Feelings?”

Foreign Affairs•Rush-Bagot Agreement 1817 Great Lakes disarmamentSign of improving British-America

Relations

•Treaty of 181849th Parallelfishing rights shared off Newfoundlandjoint occupation of Oregon

• Adams-Onis Treaty 1819 1818 Andrew Jackson authorized to stop

Indians, leave Spanish Forts untouched

OOPS!!! Leads to the Florida “Purchase” Treaty of 1819—Adams-Onis

Treaty

What do you think would be the European response to the Monroe Doctrine? Why?

What effect do you think it would have on the American people? Why?

Westward SettlementWhat factors led to the migration

West?– Victories over Native Americans

• Tippecanoe and Horseshoe Bend– Cheap land– Immigration– Tobacco– Led to concern over population

growth

Like a Firebell in the Night!

Tallmadge Amendment

• James Tallmadge-NY• All slaves born in

Missouri after the territory became a state would be freed at the age of 25.

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• Passed by the House and not by the Senate. Why?

• What were the Southern concerns with the North?

The Missouri Compromise• Sen. Henry Clay-KY “the Great

Compromiser”• 3 Features:

1) Maine would be a free State2) Missouri would be a slave State3) Any future state N of the 36-30

parallel would be free

The Missouri Compromise

ARTPortrait Painting of Revolutionary Heroes• Gilbert Stuart, Charles Wilson Peale

• Enshrined and exalted Famous Americans

• How is GW made to look HEROIC in this painting?

Hudson River School of Art• The first coherent school of American art• Helped to shape the mythical idea of the

American landscape. • Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand • Landscape painting was the prevalent genre of 19th century American art.

First Presidents Review:The precedents that Washington establishedWhisky Rebellion, Neutrality Proclamation, Farewell

AddressXYZ Affair, Alien and Sedition ActsDifferences between the Federalists (Hamilton) and the

Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson)Revolution of 1800Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase, Economic embargoesMarshall CourtCauses of the War of 1812Results of the War of 1812Era of Good FeelingsAmerican System, Tariff of 1816, Panic of 1819Monroe Doctrine, Treaty of 1818, Adams-Onis TreatyTallmadge Amendment, Missouri Compromise