1. Nationalism & Sectionalism
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2. “Every nation should anxiously endeavor to establish its absolute independence, and consequently be able to feed and clothe and defend itself. If it rely upon a foreign supply that may be cut off…..it cannot be independent.”
Henry Clay – strong nationalist from Kentucky

3. Nationalism Unites the Country
The American System
Plan introduced in 1815 to make America economically self-sufficient.
3 main actions
1.) make protective tariff- tax on imported goods that protects a nation’s businesses from foreign competition
2.) Establish a Nat’l bank : single currency
3.) Improve Transportation systems

4. Era of Good Feelings Loyalty shifted state govt’s  Fed gov’t
Opposition to Pres. Monroe disappeared
Landmark S.Court Cases: Promoted National Unity
McCulloch v. Maryland
State could not tax a nat’l bank
Gibbons v. Ogden
Interstate commerce only regulated by federal gov’t

5. Transportation Links Cities
The National Road
1806: Cumberland, MD  Wheeling, WV
1841:  Vandalia, IL
Erie Canal
Waterway that connected NYC  Buffalo, NY
Trade here helped NYC  largest U.S. city
Railroads
Led to decline in canal use

6. Sectional Tensions Increase Sectional Interests
Sectionalism-
Loyalty to the interests of one’s own region or section of the country.
South
Plantations, Slavery
North East
Manufacturing, trade
West
Settlers, cheap land

7. Missouri Compromise
Laws enacted in 1820 to maintain balance of power between slave/free states.
1.) Missouri = Slave
Maine = Free
2.) Slavery was banned north of Missouri’s southern border
-Mason-Dixon Line
Maryland/Penn. Border = division between slave/free
North/South

8. National Boundaries & Foreign Affairs Settling Boundary Issues
Agreements that improved U.S/Britain relations
1.) Rush-Bagot Agreement-
Limited each side’s naval forces on Great Lakes
2.) Convention of 1818-
Set 49th parallel as U.S. Canadian border
Tense U.S. Spain Relations
Disagreements:
Louisiana Purchase boundaries
West Florida ownership

9. Monroe Doctrine
U.S policy opposing European interference in the W. Hemisphere.
U.S. stay out of European affairs
Closed to more European colonization