AP HISTORY
CHAPTER 12
War of 1812 / Era of Good Feelings
War of 1812
(1) Twelfth Congress 1811
Henry Clay
John C. Calhoun
Felix Grundy
“War Hawks”
(2) Reasons for the War of 1812
a. continuing Indian problems on the frontier
Tecumseh
William Henry Harrison
Battle of Thames
b. freedom of the seas
impressment
c. land hunger
Canada
Florida
(3) New England resistance to the war
“Mr. Madison’s War”
(4) Naval victories
Oliver Hazard Perry
Thomas MacDonough
USS Constitution
Frigates
(5) Burning of Washington, DC
Dolly Madison
Francis Scott Key – Fort McHenry
(6) Battle of New Orleans 1814
Andrew Jackson
Jean Lafitte
(7) Hartford Convention Dec 1814
nullification
(8) Treaty of Ghent
(9) Results of the War of 1812
a. informal recognition of rights on the high seas
b. sectionalism reduced – Federalist Party now dead
c. brilliant naval tradition established
d. new war heroes – Jackson, Harrison, Scott, Perry
e. Indians forced to make terms and relinquish vast areas north of Ohio River
f. manufacturing increased because of blockade – stimulated by orders for war goods
Era of Good Feelings 1816-1824
James Monroe 1816, 1820 elections
Second Bank of the United States
Tariff of 1816
John C. Calhoun – SC
Henry Clay – KY
Daniel Webster – NH
Clay’s American System
Calhoun’s Bonus Bill
Land Act 1800
Land Act 1820
Treaties of the period:
(1) Rush-Bagot Agreement 1817
(2) Treaty Line of 1818
(3) Adams-Onis Treaty 1819
a. Jackson in Florida
(4) Russo-American Treaty 1824
Monroe Doctrine 1823
a. John Quincy Adams
b. George Canning
Transportation and Technology
(1) Erie Canal 1825
(2) Cumberland or National Road 1811
(3) Robert Fulton 1807
(4) Eli Whitney 1793
Panic of 1819
Tallmadge Amendment 1819
Missouri Compromise 1920
Marshall Decisions:
(1) McCulloch v. Maryland 1819
(2) Cohens v. Virginia 1821
(3) Gibbons v. Ogden 1824
(4) Fletcher v. Peck 1810
(5) Dartmouth College v. Woodward 1819
American Literature beginnings:
Washington Irving
James Fenimore Cooper