Era of Good Feelings?
Maybe Not
The American System
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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 unConstitutional due to states rights
• State governments ended up building canals and roads
– mostly in the North
Erie Canal
Internal Improvements
Era Good Feelings???
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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
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
Missouri Compromise
Monroe Doctrine
• Americans feared growth of monarchies in the aftermath of the
French Revolution
• Democratic rebellions crushed in Italy and Spain
• Russia’s 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.
Simon Bolivar
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
Spain’s 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
Convention of 1818
49th parallel became the northern border of the Louisiana Purchase Territory
Oregon Territory
54’40 parallel
The red line
indicates 54’40
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.