1. Post War of 1812 Important Events (1815-1824)

2. Election of James Monroe
Last president of the “Virginia Dynasty”
Elected President in 1816
Monroe- 183 electoral votes
Rufus King- 34 electoral votes
King was the last Federalist who ran for president

3. Henry Clay’s American System
3 parts
Protective Tariff (Tariff of 1816)
National Bank (Second Bank of the United States)
**“Internal Improvements”**
Roads, Bridges, Canals, Turnpikes
**Were internal improvements constitutional?**

4. Second Bank of the United States
Chartered in 1816
“Bank War” during President Jackson’s presidency
Also in 1816
Protective Tariff (Tariff of 1816)
Protect American manufacturing
Prevent Britain from dumping their goods in the country

5. The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise is also an example of sectionalism
Background:
In 1819, Missouri applied for statehood into the United States.
Missouri wanted slavery to be legal in their state
Prior to this request, there were an equal number of slave and free states in the country.
Why?
If Missouri was admitted as a state, there would be more slave states than free states

6. Solution
Henry Clay- “The Great Compromiser”
Missouri would be admitted as a slave state
Maine (created from Massachusetts) would be admitted a free state
No slavery in the territories above the 36’30 parallel

7. Florida During the War of 1812, U.S. troops occupied Western Florida
Seminoles, runaway slaves, and white outlaws conducted raids in U.S. Territory and then retreat into Spanish Florida
1817- President Monroe authorized General Andrew Jackson to stop the raids

8. Jackson’s Raid of the Seminole Indians
1818
Jackson’s militia in Florida
Destroyed Seminole villages
Hung two Seminole chiefs
Captured Pensacola, Florida
Drove out the Spanish government
Hung two British traders accused of helping the Seminoles
Would this cause an international problem with Britain and Spain?
President Monroe persuaded to support General Jackson
British did not intervene

9. The Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)
Spain turned over possession of Florida and its claim in the Oregon Territory to the United States
The United States agreed to assume $5 million in claims against Spain and give up any claim to the Spanish province in Texas
Big Picture…
Manifest Destiny began in the 1840s but the U.S. was expansionist long before
Texas and Oregon will be two important examples of Manifest Destiny

10. The Monroe Doctrine (1823)
A giant bluff or a really smart move by President Monroe (really John Quincy Adams)?
Background
Holy Alliance (France, Russia, Prussia, and Spain)
HA-Possibility of recolonizing Latin America/South America on behalf of Spain
Joint British/US resolution to counter Holy Alliance
Latin America remains independent-Why? Trade
A second resolution stated that the U.S. and Britain would renounce future claims in Latin America/South America

11. At first, President Monroe agreed with British ideas
Secretary of State John Quincy Adams disagreed
“Small boat in the British man of war”
Monroe Doctrine
LA/SA countries remain independent
Future colonization by Europe or Russia was not allowed
US viewed this as a threat
Possible future Colonization of LA/SA by the US only

12. A National Economy

14. “The Mill Girls” 1840s Lowell, Massachusetts 1791 First factory system
Samuel Slater

15. “King Cotton” 1793 Eli Whitney Cotton Gin
By the start of the Civil War, % of the world’s cotton was grown in the South
1 million slaves in 1800
4 million in 1860
“The Peculiar Institution”