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A Changing Nation
Chapter 10- Monroe→ Jacksonian Democracy
Essential Question 1: How was the power of the federal government
strengthened during the Era of Good Feelings?
Section 1: Building a National Unity
 The Era of Good Feelings
 Building the National Economy
o Government promotes economic prosperity
o Henry Clay
o John C. Calhoun
o Daniel Webster
o The Second Bank of the U.S.
o Tariff of 1816- Dumping
o Clay’s American System
 Important Supreme Court Rulings
o McCulloch v Maryland (1819)- Federal supremacy
o Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) Interstate commerce
Essential Question 2: How did U.S. foreign affairs reflect a new national
confidence?
Section 2: Dealing With Other Nations
 Relations With Spain
o Jackson’s Seminole Wars
o Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819
 Spanish Colonies Win Independence
o Mexico
o South America-Simon Bolivar
o Central America
o Brazil
 The Monroe Doctrine 1823
Essential Question 3: How did the people gain more power during the Age of
Jackson?
Section 3: The Age of Jackson
 Adams and Jackson in Conflict
o Jackson’s background- “Old Hickory”
o Election of 1824- “Corrupt Bargain”
o The presidency of John Quincy Adams
 A New Era of Politics
o Extending suffrage/ Jacksonian Democracy
 New Political Parties
o Republican Party splits
o Adams and National Republicans
o Jackson and the Democrats
o Anti-Jackson Whigs
o Caucus
o Nominating conventions
 Jackson’s Inauguration- Common Man
 Spoils System- Kitchen Cabinet
Essential Question 4: Why did Jackson use force to remove Indians from the
Southeast?
Section 4: Indian Removal
 Native Americans of the Southeast
o Cherokees
o Sequoyah
o Georgia passes law forcing Creeks to give up land (1825 and 1827)
o Georgia passes law forcing Cherokees from land
o Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
o Indian Removal Act
o “Trail of Tears” 1833- Martin Van Buren
Essential Question 5: How did old issues take a new shape in the conflict over
the national bank?
Section 5: States’ Rights and the Economy
 Bank War
 The Nullification Crisis
o Tariff of Abominations
o Nullification
o Secession
 End of the Jackson Era
o The Panic of 1837
o Election of 1840- William Henry Harrison “Log Cabin” campaign