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!!!
