The Era of Good Feelings

1. The Era of Good Feelings 1816-1825

2. What were the beliefs of the Democratic-Republicans?

3. War of 1812 Changes Republicans • Build a permanent professional army and navy • Second Bank of the United States • Internal improvements: National Road • Protective tariff: Tariff of 1816 • Essentially adopted all of Hamilton’s ideas as their own • Republicans are the only party until election of 1828

11. Panic of 1819Caused by over speculation on frontierInflation from War of 1812 Decrease in British Cotton Demand • Controversial Role of the Bank • BUS tightens credit to control • Went too far which led to deflation • Caused many banks to close • Hurt land speculators in the West (war hawks?) • Caused many farms to go into foreclosure

12. Soup kitchens • Debtors’ Prisons • Runs on the bank • Panic on a scale that the country would not see again until the Great Depression • Made the bank unpopular in the West and the South

13. What sectional tensions arose during the Era of Good Feelings? Based on what we have seen so far, do you believe that this time should be called an “Era of Good Feelings?”

15. Foreign Affairs • Rush-Bagot Agreement 1817 • Great Lakes disarmament • Sign of improving British-America Relations • Treaty of 1818 • 49th Parallel • fishing rights shared off Newfoundland • joint occupation of Oregon

17. Adams-Onis Treaty 1819 • 1818 Andrew Jackson authorized to stop Indians, leave Spanish Forts untouched • OOPS!!! Leads to the Florida “Purchase” Treaty of 1819—Adams-Onis Treaty

20. What do you think would be the European response to the Monroe Doctrine? Why? What effect do you think it would have on the American people? Why?

22. Westward Settlement What factors led to the migration West? • Victories over Native Americans • Tippecanoe and Horseshoe Bend • Cheap land • Immigration • Tobacco • Led to concern over population growth

23. Like a Firebell in the Night! Tallmadge Amendment • James Tallmadge-NY • All slaves born in Missouri after the territory became a state would be freed at the age of 25.

24. Passed by the House and not by the Senate. Why? • What were the Southern concerns with the North? The Missouri Compromise • Sen. Henry Clay-KY “the Great Compromiser” • 3 Features: 1) Maine would be a free State 2) Missouri would be a slave State 3) Any future state N of the 36-30 parallel would be free

25. The Missouri Compromise

29. ART • Portrait Painting of Revolutionary Heroes • Gilbert Stuart, Charles Wilson Peale • Enshrined and exalted Famous Americans • How is GW made to look HEROIC in this painting?

30. Hudson River School of Art • The first coherent school of American art • Helped to shape the mythical idea of the American landscape. • Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand • Landscape painting was the prevalent genre of 19th century American art.

31. First Presidents Review: • The precedents that Washington established • Whisky Rebellion, Neutrality Proclamation, Farewell Address • XYZ Affair, Alien and Sedition Acts • Differences between the Federalists (Hamilton) and the Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson) • Revolution of 1800 • Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase, Economic embargoes • Marshall Court • Causes of the War of 1812 • Results of the War of 1812 • Era of Good Feelings • American System, Tariff of 1816, Panic of 1819 • Monroe Doctrine, Treaty of 1818, Adams-Onis Treaty • Tallmadge Amendment, Missouri Compromise