The Era of Good Feelings
The Election of 1816
James Monroe [ ]
President James Monroe
Elizabeth Kortright Monroe
The Administration of James Monroe Political stability Republican rule Lack of political interest Rush-Bagot Agreement of 1817 Establishing a Canadian boundary Florida becomes part of the Union Sec. Of State John Quincy Adams Adams-Onis Treaty
John Quincy Adams: John Quincy Adams: A bulldog among spaniels!
The West & the NW:
Adams-Onis Treaty, 1819
The Convention of 1818
US Population Density
The American System p Tariff of 1816 p Second Bank of the U. S. p Internal improvements at federal expense. - National Road Henry Clay, “The Great Compromiser”
The American System
WEST got roads, canals, and federal aide. p WEST got roads, canals, and federal aide. p EAST got the backing of protective tariffs from the West. p SOUTH ??
The Panic of 1819 CAUSES???
The Election of 1820
Sec. Of State John Quincy Adams Proposes the Monroe Doctrine
Take Five… What was the our first foreign policy in regards to the Western Hemisphere? What was the our first foreign policy in regards to the Western Hemisphere?
Monroe Doctrine Russian threat Fort Ross Austrian and French threats Spanish-American independence
The Monroe Doctrine, What would the US do if the warning was not headed? Monroe Doctrine 2.What warning is given to the European countries? 1.What foreign policy principles are established? p Referred to as America’s Self-Defense Doctrine.
Western Hemisphere
Chief Justice John Marshall
Landmark Court decisions Fletcher vs. Peck Martin vs. Hunter’s Lessee McCulloch vs. Maryland
Sectional tensions John C. Calhoun Reviving an old institution The cotton gin “King cotton” “King cotton” Slaves as a commodity Gradual northern emancipation Mason-Dixon line
John C. Calhoun
Take Five Why did the admission of Missouri as a state upset the balance of power in Congress? Why did the admission of Missouri as a state upset the balance of power in Congress?
Sectional tensions (con’t) Missouri Compromise James Tallmadge Henry Clay Maintaining balance
The Tallmadge Amendment p All slaves born in Missouri after the territory became a state would be freed at the age of 25. p Passed by the House, not in the Senate. p The North controlled the House, and the South had enough power to block it in the Senate.
Henry Clay and the Great Missouri Compromise Terms of the Compromise An imaginary line would be drawn at parallel 36°30' north parallel 36°30' north All states above the line (except Missouri) would be admitted as free states All states below the line would have “popular soverignty” Missouri would be admitted as a slave state Maine would be admitted as a free state States would be admitted in pairs (1 free, 1 slave)
Missouri Compromise