1. Topic: Assessing American Foreign Policy post-1812

2. The Era of Good Feelings
Only Democratic-Republicans by 1816
One party rule
James Monroe President
Tariff of 1816 – protect US manufacturing
Henry Clay and the “American System”
Banks, tariffs, roads/canals
Rejected by dem-reps
Individual state projects
NY Canal; Cumberland Road (Maryland-Illinois)
Stronger Foreign Policy
Some tranquility, prosperity at first
Panic of 1819

3. Dealings with Britain and Canada
Nationalist Leaders:
President Monroe
Secretary of State John Quincy Adams
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)- calls for naval limits on the Great Lakes
Treaty of th parallel as the boundary between US and Canada
Fishing rights shared (Newfoundland)
Sharing the Oregon Territory

4. Jackson Invades Florida
Democratic Revolutions in the Spanish American Empire
Spain losing control of the “new world”
1818: General Andrew “Old Hickory” Jackson invades Florida
Chasing Indian warriors
Seizes Spanish forts
Florida Purchase Treaty 1819
Florida now part of US territory

5. The Monroe Doctrine Post-Napoleonic Europe
Democracy is dangerous
No more revolutions…
Would European monarchs try to reclaim the Americas?
Russia moving into Alaska, further south
Monroe Doctrine issued (1823)
No more colonization in the Americas
No European “interference” in any American nation