The Era of Good Feelings

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The Era of Good Feelings

• 1817-1824

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Political Nationalism

• James Monroe
• DR-VA
• 1817-25
• Republican dominance
• Great Triumvirate
• Henry Clay (KY)
• John C. Calhoun (SC)
• Daniel Webster (MA)

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The American System

• Second Bank of the U.S.
• Tariff of 1816
• Protective tariff
• Infrastructure
• Federal Internal Improvement Plan
• Cumberland Road
• The National Road
• US Route 40
• Eerie Canal

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Judicial Nationalism

• Chief Justice John Marshall
• 1801-1835
• Major decisions
• Gibbons v. Ogden
• Interstate Commerce
• McCullough v. Maryland
• States cannot tax federal institutions
• B.U.S. is constitutional
• Martin v. Hunters Lessee
• SCOTUS can overturn state supreme court decisions
• Fletcher v. Peck
• Sanctity of contracts

The power to tax is the power to destroy John
Marshall
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Nationalist Diplomacy

• Spanish Florida
• Creek
• Seminole
• 1818
• Secretary of War Calhoun
• General Andrew Jackson
• Secretary of State John Quincy Adams
• Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)
• Florida given to US
• Border between Spain and Louisiana defined
• Convention of 1818
• US-Canadian border on 49th Parallel
• Lake-of-the-Woods

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The Monroe Doctrine

• Latin American Independence
• Simon Bolivar
• 1824 All but Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Santo
  Domingo free

• Quadruple Alliance
• Britain, Russia, Prussia, Austria, (France)
• 1822 Alliance to help Spain regain Latin
  American colonies.
• Great Britain objects
• 1823 Britain suggests joint statement
  supporting Latin American independence
• Russia makes claims on Oregon Country

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The Monroe Doctrine

• Monroe Doctrine written by John Quincy Adams
• Europe is to stay out of American affairs
• America has no power to enforce it
• Hegemon

The American continentsare henceforth not to be
considered as subjects for future colonization by
European powers. The Monroe Doctrine