1. Nationalism

2. Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin, 1791 Actually invented by a slave!

3. First Turnpike Lancaster, PA (1790)
By 1832, nearly 2400 mi. of road connected most major cities.

4. Cumberland “National Road,” 1811

5. The Erie Canal, 1820s

6. Erie Canal System

7. Robert Fulton & the Steamboat
The Clermont

8. The Election of 1816

9. James Monroe [ ]

10. ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS
Presidency won by another Virginian James Monroe Troubles loom 1. tariff 2. Bank 3. Internal improvements 4. Sale of public lands 5. Sectionalism over slavery

11. The Tariff of 1816
After Treaty of Ghent 1814 British dump cheap goods on
American markets
Baby American industries want protection
Nationalist Congress takes strongest stance ever with The
Tariff of 1816
protection not revenue
20%- 25%
strongly protective trend which Americans like

12. The American System By Henry Clay
Nationalistic trend to developing profitable home market
Strong banking system
Protective tariffs
Network of roads, canals - esp through Ohio Valley
Knit country together - especially road poor west

13. The American System WEST  got roads, canals, and federal aide.
EAST  got the backing of protective tariffs from the West.
SOUTH  ??

14. The Panic
of 1819
CAUSES???

15. Panic of paralyzing economic panic - debtors prisons - nat’l financial crisis - overspeculation on Western lands - Bank of U.S. forced speculative “wildcat” western banks to foreclose on farms - western debtor saw the Bank of U.S. as “evil” - furor in social world as poor become visibly poorer

16. The West & the NW:

17. US Population Density
1810
1820

18. The Tallmadge Amendment
All slaves born in Missouri after the territory became a state would be freed at the age of 25.
Passed by the House, not in the Senate.
The North controlled the House, and the South had enough power to block it in the Senate.
The Tallmadge Amendment

19. The Compromise of 1820: A Firebell in the Night!

20. The Missouri Compromise
Brokered by Henry Clay (The Great Compromiser)
Missouri admitted as slave state
Maine admitted as free state
Rest of Louisiana territory north of latitude 36 30, slavery was prohibited

21. Election of 1820
With the Panic of 1819 and the Tallmadge Amendment and the Missouri Compromise it seems the Era of Good Feelings has gone flat….
But smooth-spoken James Monroe is elected again

22. The Election of 1820

23. The Monroe Doctrine, 1823
Referred to as America’s Self-Defense Doctrine.
What warning is given to the European countries?
What foreign policy principles are established?
Monroe Doctrine
What would the US do if the warning was not headed?

24. Monroe Doctrine - Restoration of European monarchies after Napoleon’s
fall worried American in Western hemisphere
Russia’s presence in Alaska worries British and
Americans - should they work together?
Secretary of State John Adams brilliantly engineers Monroe Doctrine
President James Monroe delivers the Monroe Doctrine - the ultimate nationalistic command - “STAY OUR OF OUR BACKYARD”

25. The Election of 1824: The “Corrupt Bargain”

26. The Election of 1824: The “Corrupt Bargain”
Candidate
Popular Vote
Electoral Vote
Andrew Jackson
43% 99
J.Q. Adams
31% 32
William Crawford
13% 41
Henry Clay 37