The Era of Good Feelings James Monroe, President from 1817 to 1825 The National Road, 1811-1839 The Erie Canal, built 1817-1825 The Erie Canal New York governor DeWitt Clinton The Second Bank of the United States Missouri seeks admission to the Union as a slave state, 1819 Henry Clay The Missouri Compromise, 1820 The Monroe Doctrine, 1823 John Quincy Adams The Monroe Doctrine, 1823 Social and Cultural Developments The Second Great Awakening A Campmeeting, 1839 The Second Great Awakening A Circuit-rider The Second Great Awakening Peter Cartwright The Second Great Awakening Charles G. Finney The Hudson River School The Hudson River School Thomas Cole The Hudson River School Asher B. Durand Kindred Spirits Transcendentalism A movement in early nineteenth-century American: • Religion • Philosophy • Literature • Culture Transcendentalism • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Henry David Thoreau • Nathaniel Hawthorne New Harmony, 1825-1829 Robert Owens New Harmony, 1825-1829 Owens’s idea for New Harmony Brook Farm, 1841-1847 • George Ripley • Charles Fourier • Nathaniel Hawthorne Public School Movement Horace Mann