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Era of Good Feelings
Term used to describe James Monroe's two terms as President
American nationalism
Growing sense of Americans as separate from Europeans
Political unity
Period of political unity after the end of the Federalist Party
James Monroe
Fought in the Revolution, Jefferson's minister to Britain and Madison's Secretary of State
Virginia Dynasty
Four of the first five Presidents were from Virginia
Acquisition of Florida
James Monroe was President during the acquisition of Florida
Missouri Compromise
Compromise that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
Monroe Doctrine
Statement warning European powers against American colonization
Cultural nationalism
Growing sense of American culture versus borrowing European culture
Hudson River School
American art movement that painted American landscapes
Nathaniel Currier & James Merritt Ives
American artists known for their prints and lithographs
Washington Irving
American author known for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Rip Van Winkle
James Fennimore Cooper
American author known for Last of the Mohicans & Leatherstocking Tales
Transcendentalists
Group of American writers including Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman
Nathaniel Hawthorne
American author known for The Scarlet Letter
Edgar Allen Poe
American poet and fiction writer
Herman Melville
American author known for Moby Dick
Alexis Tocqueville
French nobleman who wrote Democracy in America
Tariff of 1816
First US protective tariff to protect US manufacturers
American System
Henry Clay's proposal for protective tariffs, a national bank, and internal improvements
John Marshall
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who consistently favored the central government
Marbury v. Madison
Supreme Court case that established judicial review
Fletcher v. Peck
Supreme Court case that ruled a state law unconstitutional
Martin v. Hunter's Lease
Supreme Court case that established Supreme Court jurisdiction over state courts
Dartmouth v. Woodard
Supreme Court case that protected property rights
MucClloch v. Maryland
Supreme Court case that ruled in favor of the federal government's power
Cohens v. Virginia
Supreme Court case that established the power of the Supreme Court to review state court rulings
Gibbons v. Ogden
Supreme Court case that established federal control over interstate commerce
Westward migration
Population west of the Appalachian Mountains doubled after the War of 1812
Soil exhaustion
Reason for westward migration as tobacco planters moved to Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas
Transportation improvements
Roads, steamboats, canals, and railroads facilitated westward migration
Immigration
European immigrants moved to America in search of cheap land
Sectional conflict
Conflict arising from the Missouri Compromise and the balance of free and slave states
Foreign affairs
US foreign policy became more nationalistic and aggressive
Rush-Bagot Agreement
Agreement limiting the size of navies on the Great Lakes
Treaty of 1818
Treaty that shared fishing rights and set boundaries between the US and Canada
Adams-Onis Treaty
Treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to the US
Monroe Doctrine
Statement warning European powers against American colonization
Population growth
US population doubled between 1800 and 1825
Northeast economy
Shifted from agriculture to manufacturing in the early 1800s
Eli Whitney
Inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts
Corporations
Laws made it easier to form corporations and raise capital
Samuel Slater
British immigrant who helped build the first US factory
Lowell system
Recruited young farm women for factory labor in Lowell, Massachusetts
Cotton gin
Invention that transformed cotton into the principle cash crop of the South
Slave population
Increased 400% after the invention of the cotton gin
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