Section One: Building National Unity Focus Question: How was the power of the federal government strengthened during the Era of Good Feelings?

Presidential Acts that fostered unity:  Landslide presidential election in  Goodwill Tour  Eventual decline in the Federalist Party.

Congressional Acts that fostered unity (Slide One)  Henry Clay – West  Daniel Webster – North  John C. Calhoun – South

Congressional Acts that fostered Unity (Slide Two)  Second Bank of the U.S. (1816)  The Tariff of 1816 – like a protective tariff; unpopular in the South.  Clay’s American System Never fully worked.

Supreme Court decisions that fostered unity:  McCulloch v. Maryland (1819): protected the Bank of the U.S.  Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819): protected private contracts and private business thereby promoting capitalism  Gibbons v. Ogden (1824): protected regulation of interstate trade as a federal power (All of the above decisions strengthened the federal government at the expense of the states.)