1. Era of Good Feelings

2. Essential Question: What did it mean to be American in the early 1800s?
Star Spangled banner 1812gave Americans a national identity
Alexis de Tocqueville “I do not know a country where the love of money holds a larger place in the heart of man”
There was a surge of patriotism Americans felt the brightest days for America were ahead.
Uncle Sam: Symbol born during this period.
Legend has it that the name came from Sam Wilson, a New Your Butcher who provided the army with meat during the War of 1812.
Initials were made up to match the U.S. Became a popular nickname for the federal government.

3. Developing a Nation in a Land of Differences
Surge of patriotism after the War of 1812
US in the early1800s
Very different from today!
2/3 lived w/in 50 miles of the Atlantic, fewer than 1/10 lived west of the Appalachians
Travel was difficult and slow nothing moved faster than a horse could run, news took weeks to be delivered
B/C of geographical differences distinct regional lifestyles developed led to stereotypes
Symbols and Values-Needed to feel American!
Meant Americans needed to share values, felt they were better than Europeans
Economic Nationalism
-Based on Capitalism-an economic system based on private ownership of farms and businesses
Judicial Nationalism-
Strengthened the role of the Supreme Court and federal power over the states.
Encouraged the growth of capitalism—McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

4. Yankees “Enterprising, thrifty, quick to chase a dollar”
Growing Cities/Lots of trade

5. Kentucky
Henry Clay: Believed in capitalism, high tariffs & federal spending on transportation
American system-a proposal to the government that called for taxes on imports, federally funded transportation project, and a new national bank
Projects  War Hawk

6. Rich Plantation Owners
Gracious, Cultured and Lazy

7. South Carolina John C. Calhoun: Resisted federal power
Big supporter of states rights
Wanted to protect slavery in the south

8. Frontiersmen
Rugged, Hardy and Crude
In the west

9. Massachusetts Daniel Webster: Opposed war of 1812
Served in both House and Senate
“24 states are one country”

10. Art: Folk Art Made by ordinary people Carvings, quilts
Thomas Cole (landscaping)
James Audubon (Birds)
Catlin (the west, Native Americas)

11. Early American Art
Thomas Cole-1829
James Audubon-Birds of America

12. Music: Early church National Identity was expressed through music
1800s: Classical dance in the south  Spirituals, square dancing
Minstrel songs what are they??
Honored black music by mimicking it.
Samuel Francis Smith “My Country, ‘tis of thee”

13. Literature Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle”
James Fennimore Cooper, “The Last of the Mohicans” Davy Crockett
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Paul Revere's Ride”
Patriotic Themes: Uncle Sam