Era of Good Feelings

The Era of Good Feelings

• In this presidential election Democratic-Republican candidate James Monroe defeated the Federalist candidate Rufus King.
• The developer of the steamboat that made shipping faster and cheaper.
• In the 1820s the Democratic-Republicans argued about how to interpret the Constitution and about tariffs. The party split becoming the Democratic Party and the Whig Party.
• A period of time after the War of 1812 marked by nationalism, optimism, and goodwill.

Henry Clay

• Congressman who proposed an economic plan called the American System.
• This economic plan included protective tariffs to promote American manufacturing, a Second Bank of the United States, and internal improvements.
• Loyalty to a region or section of the country instead of the country as a whole. In the 1820s people began to advocate for the interests of their part of the country much more.
• In the early 1800s the population of the United States doubled every 25 years. A high birthrate accounted for much of the growth. Many immigrants came from England and Germany.

American System

• Loyalty to a region or section of the country instead of the country as a whole. In the 1820s people began to advocate for the interests of their part of the country much more.
• The nation's first railroad was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad which was established in 1828. By 1860 there were 30,000 miles of railroad track in the United States.
• The textile mills in Lowell Massachusetts recruited young farm women to work in their mills and housed them in company dormitories. By the 1830s this labor system was widely used in the Northeast.
• This economic plan included protective tariffs to promote American manufacturing, a Second Bank of the United States, and internal improvements.

Internal Improvements

• Set the northern boundary of the Louisiana Purchase at the 49th Parallel and established joint U.S. and British occupation of the Oregon Territory for ten years.
• Term used to describe projects like roads and canals designed to improve America's transportation network.
• This agreement between the U.S. and Great Britain limited naval armaments on the Great Lakes.
• The nation's first railroad was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad which was established in 1828. By 1860 there were 30,000 miles of railroad track in the United States.

Election of 1816

• In this presidential election Democratic-Republican candidate James Monroe defeated the Federalist candidate Rufus King.
• This was the aristocracy of the South representing a very small portion of the population. These individuals sometimes owned more than a hundred slaves and thousands of acres of land.
• Congressman who proposed an economic plan called the American System.
• This is today's Midwest. This area was agricultural growing corn and wheat. Cities like Chicago, Cincinnati, and St. Louis grew up near important transportation points.

Election of 1820

• In this presidential election James Monroe won the popular election in all of the states and won all but one electoral vote. The Federalist Party was unable to field a candidate and Monroe ran without an organized opposition.
• Compromise passed in 1820 that admitted Missouri as a slave state, admitted Maine as a free state, and prohibited slavery north of the 36'30 latitude line in the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase.
• By the 1820s the non-indigenous population west of Appalachian Mountains doubled in size.
• An inventor who invented the cotton gin and also devised a system for making rifles out of interchangeable parts.

James Monroe

• This 363 mile long canal, completed in 1825, linked western farms and eastern cities.
• The winner of the 1816 and 1820 elections who was president during the Era of Good Feelings. He was part of the Virginia Dynasty of presidents.
• This economic plan included protective tariffs to promote American manufacturing, a Second Bank of the United States, and internal improvements.
• Term used to describe projects like roads and canals designed to improve America's transportation network.

Panic of 1819

• An organizational innovation that brought workers together under one roof. It split up tasks to make work more efficient and paid people wages based on the number of hours they worked.
• The first major financial panic since the ratification of the Constitution. It was caused by the Second Bank of the U.S. tightening credit.
• Term used to describe slavery in the South before the Civil War. By 1860 there were four million slaves in the South. In the deep South slaves made up 75% of the total population.
• The textile mills in Lowell Massachusetts recruited young farm women to work in their mills and housed them in company dormitories. By the 1830s this labor system was widely used in the Northeast.

McCulloch v. Maryland

• The nation's first railroad was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad which was established in 1828. By 1860 there were 30,000 miles of railroad track in the United States.
• In this case the Supreme Court, led by John Marshall, ruled that Congress has the implied power to create a Bank of the United States and states cannot tax a federal institution.
• The winner of the 1816 and 1820 elections who was president during the Era of Good Feelings. He was part of the Virginia Dynasty of presidents.
• An inventor who invented the cotton gin and also devised a system for making rifles out of interchangeable parts.

Gibbons v. Ogden

• Term used to describe projects like roads and canals designed to improve America's transportation network.
• This proclamation was issued to protect North and South America from European aggression. It declared that the U.S. was opposed to attempts by European powers to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.
• A freedman who planned a slave revolt in Charleston, South Carolina in 1822. The plot was discovered and he was executed. Stricter slave codes would be developed following the revolt.
• In this case the Supreme Court ruled that New York's steamboat monopoly grant was unconstitutional and confirmed the federal government's broad control over interstate commerce.