1. Chapter 7 – Section 1
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2. Nationalism Takes Root
The war of 1812: The nation did not gain any new territory.
To most Americans, however confirmation of the young republic’s independence from Europe were more important than any new land.
By this, it started a new sense of nationalism.

3. The Era of Good Feelings
The 1818 election brought another landslide win for the Democratic Republicans, who controlled 85% of the seats in the U.S. Congress.
James Monroe, another Virginian, followed by Madison in the Presidency for two terms from 1817 to 1825.
This time period was called the Era of Good Feelings.
It only lasted less than a decade.

4. Relations with Great Britain
The first foreign-policy issues facing President Monroe had relations with Great Britain.
Bagot disliked Americans.
Peace would allow Britain to move warships to other parts of its empire.

5. The Monroe Doctrine
By early 1820s, most of Spain’s Latin American colonies had launched revolution.
Some which the U.S. citizens went to support the rebellions, most was inspired by American Revolution.
After the problems with Spain about Florida had ended, the U.S. government regonized the New Latin.

6. Chapter 7 – Section 2

7. The Economy
By 1815 Republicans, who opposed a strong central government, called for national measures to promote manufacturing and to strengthen the country’s financial system.
By the mid-1814, the war drained the U.S. Treasury and with Congress refused to recharter, the Treasury had to rely on state banks for loans.

8. The American System
The American System was a plan developed by Henry Clay for raising tariffs to pay for internal improvements such as roads and canals.
In 1797, he passed the bar examination and became an attorney.
A skilled politician, Clay was appointed speaker of the House in 1811.

9. The Tariff of 1816
This act placed a 25 percent duty on most imported factory goods.
The tariff enjoyed wide support among northern manufacturers.
New England importers and southern planters who relied on British trade opposed the tariff.

10. Transportation
In February 1817, however, Calhoun angered many southerners by introducing a bill to fund a national system of roads and canals, using money from tariffs.
In 1815, construction of the Cumberland Road, later called The National Road.
Despite the lack of federal support, in 1817 New York began one of the most ambitious transportation projects of the era, The Erie Canal.

11. Canals and Steamboats
Canals offered one solution to the transportation problem.

12. The Market Revolution
Regions no longer had to be self-sufficient, people could import needed goods and concentrate on producing what was most profitable.
This creation of national markets has since come to be known as the Market Revolution.

13. Early Industrialization
A shift to machine production was part of the Industrial Revolution, a period of dynamic changes in manufacturing.
The machines revolutionized the textile industry by allowing for mass production, which is the manufacture of large quantities of goods.
Samuel Slater was a worker who came to the United States in 1789 with hopes of making a fortune.
Eli Whitney, who employed interchangeable parts in the manufacture of firearms.

14. Panic of 1819
The Panic of 1819 was a chain reaction of bank failures, falling land prices and foreclosures.