1. The Era of “Good Feelings” What accounted for the rise in American nationalism during the early 1800s?

3. I. Henry Clay’s American System Strong banking system  Second bank of the United States Protective tariffs  Tariff of 1816 Internal improvements  Funding for roads, canals (Republicans adopt many positions of Federalists)

4. II. “Era of Good Feelings” one-party government (Republicans) growing sectionalism Westward expansion – “Ohio fever,” Indian wars, Cumberland road, canals, steamboat, Land Act of 1820 Panic of 1819 – deflation, bankruptcies, bank failures, unemployment, debtor’s prisons, mortgage foreclosures  Caused by overspeculation of frontier lands – National Bank

5. III. Diplomacy under Monroe and J.Q. Adams Rush-Bagot Agreement (1817) – disarmed Great Lakes Treaty of 1818 w/ Britain  share Newfoundland fisheries,  Oregon Territory jointly occupied by US and GB Acquisition of Florida  Monroe sent Jackson to secure southern border  Jackson exceeded his instructions  Adams urges Monroe to defend Jackson  Adams-Onis Treaty (1819) – sets boundary b/w US and Spanish territory; US gets Florida Monroe Doctrine  Reaffirmed American neutrality  U.S. wouldn’t interfere with existing colonies in Western Hemisphere but wouldn’t permit further colonization  Any attempt by a European nation to colonize any area of the Western Hemisphere would be perceived as an act of aggression against the United States Russo-American Treaty, 1824