Era of Good Feelings?

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Era of Good Feelings?

• Maybe Not

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The American System

• Henry Clay as the architect
• Second National Bank easy and abundant credit
• Protective Tariff of 1816
• Internal Improvements Roads and Canals
• Plan would tie country together politically and
  economically
• Madison vetoed road and canal bills as being
  un-Constitutional due to states rights
• State governments ended up building canals and
  roads mostly in the North

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Erie Canal
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Internal Improvements
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Era Good Feelings???

• President Monroe elected in 1816
• Last of the Virginia Dynasty
• Last Presidential election for the Federalists
• Rising Nationalism coupled with growing
  Sectionalism over economic and social issues
• PANICCCCCC of 1819
• Wild Cat Banks mostly western and easy credit
  (Does this sound familiar????)
• Over-speculation on western land sales

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Missouri Compromise

• Missouri wants statehood in 1819 as slave state
• Tallmadge amendment no new slaves and gradual
  emancipation for Missouri slaves
• Tallmadge amendment defeated in Senate, but
  southerners see it as ominous threat to slavery
• Anti-slavery societies grow in the north
• Missouri Compromise Henry Clay
• Maine as Free state
• Missouri as Slave State
• 36, 30 as dividing line for the rest of the
  Louisiana Purchase

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Missouri Compromise
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Monroe Doctrine

• Americans feared growth of monarchies in the
  aftermath of the French Revolution
• Democratic rebellions crushed in Italy and Spain
• Russias southward push into Oregon Territory
  concerned American leaders
• Latin American revolts against Spain in the New
  World Mexico, Venezuela, Bolivia
• Latin American Revolutionary Leader, Simon
  Bolivar, the George Washington of South American
  nationalism
• British propose joint Anglo-American proclamation
• Monroe Doctrine (J.Q. Adams)
• The Americas were no longer open to future
  European colonization
• The U.S. would not interfere in European Affairs
• Any attempt to interfere in Western Hemisphere
  would be viewed as an act of aggression against
  the U.S.

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Simon Bolivar
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John Q. Adams Foreign Policy

• Rush Bagot Treaty 1817 Great Britain and the
  U.S. agree to disarm the Great Lakes
• Convention of 1818 with Great Britain
  Establishment of the northern border of Louisiana
  Purchase at the 49th parallel
• Adams Onis Treaty 1819 with Spain U.S. acquires
  Florida and Spains agreement to give up their
  claim to Oregon in exchange for U.S. assurance
  that America would not attempt to acquire Texas
  and 5 million payment to settle U.S. citizens
  civil claims against Spain.
• Monroe Doctrine 1823 - see previous slide
• Convention of 1824 Russia agrees to give up
  their claim to Oregon and sets the northern
  border of Oregon Territory set at 54, 40 parallel

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Convention of 1818
49th parallel became the northern border of the
Louisiana Purchase Territory
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Oregon Territory
The red line indicates 5440 parallel which was
set by the Convention of 1824 treaty with
Russia. The U.S. and Britain jointly claimed the
territory until an 1846 treaty that divided the
territory at the 49th parallel.
5440 parallel