Pamela Henderson, Eli Garcia, Shania
Hatley, Megan Fertakis, Vika Cox
Main Idea
• Americans developed
powerful feelings of
patriotism and national
unity after the war of
1812
Key Terms and Names
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Era of Good Feelings
John C. Calhoun
Revenue tariff
Protective tariff
John Marshall
Kinache
Adams-Onis Treaty
Quadruple Alliance
• President Monroe’s words made it obvious that he had national
pride.
• Americans’ loyalty to the United States overrode their historical
identity with state of region
• The Columbian Centinal, a Boston newspaper, declared this the
time to be the time to be an Era of Good Feelings. This phrase
has since been used to describe the Monroe presidency.
• Harmony in national politics reached a new high because the
republicans had all the power.
• The war of 1812 had taught republican leaders that a strong
federal government was helpful.
The American leaders wanted to bind the nation together
so they created a new national bank
• Although the republicans opposed of a national bank, they soon
realized it was needed.
• Without a national bank, state charter banks and other private
banks expanded their lending with bank notes, which made
prices rise rapidly during the war.
• In 1816 John C. Calhoun, representative of South Carolina
introduced a bill proposing the Second Bank of the United
States.
• Because of the support of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster the
bill passed in 1816.
• Henry Clay
1777-1852
• John C. Calhoun
1782-1850
• Because of an embargo had prevented Americans from buying
British goods during the war of 1812, American industries
increased their output to meet demand.
• Once the war was over, British goods flowed into the United
States at low prices which the American industries couldn’t
compete with.
• Congress responded with the Tariff of 1816, which was unlike
earlier revenue tariff, this provided income for the federal
government. This was a protective tariff, designed to nurture
American manufacturers by taxing imports to drive up their
prices.
• The nations transportation system grew because of state and
local government funding after President Madison vetoed a
federal internal improvement plan
John Marshall ruled in three important cases that
established the dominance of the nation over the states
and shaped the future of American government
• 1816 the Court decided
that it had the authority
to hear all appeals of
state court decisions in
cases involving federal
statues & treaties.
• The case: Denny Martin,
a British subject, tried to
sell Virginia land that he
inherited from his British
loyalist uncle. The court
ruled that the land be
confiscated, because it
was conflicting with the
Treaty of Paris 1783.
• This case, in 1819,
• Marshall observed that
concerned Maryland’s
the federal government
attempt to tax the
had the right to collect
second bank. First the
taxes, borrow money,
court had to decide
regulate commerce, and
weather the federal
to raise armies & navies.
government had the right
He said that the state
to create a bank in the
government couldn‘t
first place.
interfere with federal
government affairs.
• This case in 1824
involved a company that
had state-granted
monopoly over steamboat traffic in New York
waters. The company
wanted to increase the
monopoly to include
traffic from the Hudson
River to New Jersey.
• The supreme court
decided that the
monopoly was
unconstitutional, and that
the state was wrong in
granting it in the first
place. Marshall ensured
that federal law would
take precedence over
state law.
The United States expanded its borders and asserted itself on the world stage.
• Spanish-held Florida was a source of anger for Americans,
slaves would flee, knowing that the Americans could not cross
the border.
• The Seminoles were the Creek people that had retreated to
Florida. The Seminoles used Florida as a base, and preformed
many raids on American settlements.
• The Americans wanted to take Florida, and a Seminole leader
named Kinache warned the U.S. to stay away.
• In 1818 the U.S sent troops under General Andrew Jackson,
Jackson disobeyed orders and seized the Spanish settlements of
St. Marks and Pensacola.
• Adams-Onis treaty finalized the western border of the
Louisiana Purchase along Texas’s Sabine and Red Rivers, west
along the Arkansas River, and then north to the 42nd Parallel
before turning west to the Pacific Ocean.
Map of
Adams-Onis
Treaty
Osceola, most famous
Seminole leader
• In 1809 rebellions began to erupt in Spain’s colonies.
Meanwhile a group of European countries formed the
Quadruple Alliance in an effort to suppress movements against
monarchies in Europe The alliance raised the possibility of
helping Spain regain control.
• Great Britain and the United States weren't happy with this, the
president formed a proclamation, later called the Monroe
Doctrine, prevented other great powers from interfering in Latin
Americas.
• The war over in Afghanistan connects to section 1 because the
Americans have a powerful feelings of patriotism after the
War of 1812.
• Today imports and exports are more taxed due to conflict
between countries.
• The boarder controversy between the U.S. and Mexico connect
in a way to the invasion of Florida by Jackson.