Unit VI – The Second War for Independence and the Era of Good Feelings (Chapter 12)
Objectives:
 Explain why the War of 1812 was so politically divisive and poorly fought by the United States
 Identify the terms of the Treaty of Ghent and outline the short-term and long-term results of the War of 1812
 Describe and explain the burst of American nationalism that followed the War of 1812
 Describe the major political and economic developments of the period, including the death of the Federalist Party, the so-called
Era of Good Feelings, and the economic depression that followed the Panic of 1819
 Describe the furious conflict over slavery that arose in 1819, and indicate how the Missouri Compromise at least temporarily
resolved it
 Indicate how John Marshall’s Supreme Court promoted the spirit of nationalism through its rulings in favor of federal power
 Describe the Monroe Doctrine and explain its real and symbolic significance for American foreign policy and for relations with
the new Latin American republics
1. Andrew Jackson
2. James Monroe
3. James Fenimore
Cooper
4. John Marshall
5. John C. Calhoun
6. John Quincy Adams
7. Daniel Webster
8. Henry Clay
9. Nationalism
10. Peculiar institution
11. Protective tariff
12. Sectionalism
13. Noncolonization
14. Nonintervention
15. Sectionalism
16. Internal
improvements
17. Isolationism
18. Ohio Fever
19. Second Bank of the
United States
20. McCulloch v.
Maryland
21. Tariff of 1816
22. American System
23. Bonus Bill of 1817
24. Virginia dynasty
25. Era of Good Feelings
26. Treaty of 1818
27. Panic of 1819
28. Florida Purchase
Treaty of 1819
29. Tippecanoe
30. Land Act of 1820
31. Monroe Doctrine
32. Tallmadge
Amendment
33. Russo-American
Treaty of 1824
34. Cohens v. Virginia
35. Gibbons v. Ogden
36. Fletcher v. Peck
37. Dartmouth College v.
Woodward
38. Missouri Compromise
39. Treaty of Ghent
40. Hartford Convention
41. Battle of New Orleans
42. “Blue Light”
Federalists