The Era of Good Feelings 1816-1825 What were the beliefs of the Democratic-Republicans?

The Era of Good Feelings1816-1825

What were the beliefs of the Democratic-Republicans?

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

Panic of 1819Caused by over speculation on frontier Inflation from War of 1812 Decrease in British Cotton Demand

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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

• 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

ARTPortrait Painting of Revolutionary Heroes

• Gilbert Stuart, Charles Wilson Peale

• Enshrined and exalted Famous Americans

John Trumbull, “Declaration of Independence” 1819

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.

Westward SettlementWhat factors led to the migration

West?– Victories over Native Americans

• Tippecanoe and Horseshoe Bend– Cheap land– Immigration– Tobacco– Led to concern over population

growth

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.

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• 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

The Missouri Compromise

Nationalism is reflected in Foreign Affairs

•Rush-Bagot Agreement 1817 Great Lakes disarmamentSign of improving British-America

Relations

•Treaty of 181849th Parallelfishing rights shared off Newfoundlandjoint occupation of Oregon

• 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

Latin American countries were starting to revolt against Spain

They formed new democratic nations

Caused concern for European nations. Why?

Monroe Doctrine Monroe was responding to the threat that

Europe might aid Spain in gaining back her colonies in Latin America

Monroe and Secretary Adams wanted to protect the new “republics” in the Western Hemisphere

- To keep Russia from moving south into the U.S. from Alaska.

Monroe Doctrine

· North and South America should no longer be thought of as areas for European colonization.

· The U.S. would not interfere with European affairs, and European countries should not interfere with the affairs of any nation in the Western Hemisphere.GOALS:

- To protect the independence of new Latin American nations.

Make two lists in your notebooks

Supports The Era of Good Feelings

Contradicts The Era of Good Feelings