james monroe

Era of good feelings

• single party system briefly

• Nationalism

• Monroe doctrine

• Missouri compromise

• Basically everyone was happy and well

• Henry clays system

Henry clay

• Whig

• War hawk

• Created several compromises

American system for economic growth

• protective tariffs, taxes on British goods

• National bank

• Internal improvements, railroads etc

American system

• clay

• It proposed a plan for economic growth as well as nationalism

• Protective tariffs to protect northern manufacturing from flooding of British goods

• National bank for a central place of federal funds and better credit

• Internal improvements connecting the west north and south , this also helped nationalism commerce and create commercial specialization

  
  

Market revolution

• internal improvements ; roads - federally funded , canals and steam engines , railroads

• Telegraph

• Mechanical inventions - cotton gin and interchangable parts - corporations for raising capital

• Factory system- labor and unions

• Cotton in the South

transportation technology and communication that connect the country as a national market based economy

Commerical speciazation

Early factory system

• Lowell’s factory system - employed everyone from children to women

• Long hours - many times you lived at the factory

• Strict schedule

• Textile mills

• Mass produce products

Transportation revolution

• roads ; Lancaster turnpike

• States rights advocates block federal funding of interstate roads

• National or Cumberland road - interstate highway - federally funded

• Canals - connected east and west

• Lowered price of food and strengthened economics as quick shipping

• steam engines - factories don’t have to be on a river , can go up stream

• Railroads - transformed west into commercial developments - expansion

Erie Canal

• big canal

• First of its kind

• Connected Maryland to Ohio

• Big for shipping stuff

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Economics of north south and west

North - manufacturing, textiles

South- cotton , big plantations , cash crops

West- commercial farming / food , animals

Missuri compromise

• balance for slave and no space states for territories entering the US as states

• Talmadge amendment - prohibit introduction of new slaves , children of slaves emancipated by 25 - south didn’t like

• Clays proposal - Missouri slave state- main free state

• Created the 36-30 parallel

• Ended debates of slavery

• Ended era of good feelings

• Nationalism v sectionalism

Monroe doctorine

• changes in European powers

• Russians intruding into Alaska

• Protecting north and South America - British and us

• British- naval power to stop Spain from establishing colonies

• American response - issue doctrine without British co author cause they knew they would support it

• Americans not open to European colonies and American opposed attempts

  
  

Adam’s onis treaty

• after Jackson’s military campaign

• Florida percuse treaty - Spain feared America would take Florida - us payed 5 million for damages - us got Florida and any Oregon claims for removal of claims in Spanish Texas