4.3 Monroe & Era of Good Feelings

Era of Good Feelings

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* Era of Good feelings nicknamed due to increased Nationalism after the war and the time period of only ONE POLITICAL PARTY (Democratic-Republicans) 
* However…. NOT ALL GOOD FEELINGS 
* Growing sectionalism ; Debates over the American System (see below); Slavery; Panic of 1819 

Economic Nationalism

After the War of 1812, there was a strong push for **economic nationalism**—the belief that the government should enact policies to protect their own financial well being. 

An example is: **Henry Clay’s American System:** 

Describe the American System?

Henry Clay’s plan for uniting the national economy.3 parts: protective tariffs, 2nd national bank, and government funded roads, railroads and canals.

Cumberland Road, Erie Canal

Monroe Foreign Policy

**John Quincy Adams was Sec of State and responsible for getting all the following foreign policy negotiated during Monroe’s Presidency)**  

❏ **Rush-Bagot Agreement (1817)**

❏ **Treaty of 1818**

❏ **Adams-Onis Treaty**

Rush-Bagot Agreement

limited naval arms on the Great Lakes, and later extended to other regions and forbade border fortifications 

Treaty of 1818

this improved relations between Americans and the British by agreeing to: 

❏ Shared fishing rights off the coast of Newfoundland 

❏ Joint occupation of the Oregon Territory for ten years 

❏ Northern limits of the Louisiana Territory becomes the 49th parallel, establishing the U.S.-Canada border

Adams-Onis Treaty

in 1819, Spain agreed to sell all of its possessions in Florida and its claims in the Oregon Territory for $5 million and an agreement that the U.S. had no claims in Texas. 

What was the Monroe Doctrine?

Foreign policy declaration that warned European states against further encroachment into or influence in the Americas

What was the Missouri Compromise? Why was it passed?

A new rule for future admission of slave and free states using the 36° 30’ line. Missouri admitted as a slave state and Maine a free state in order to maintain a balance in the Senate

Sectionalism

Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole; Northerners became increasingly concerned about industrialization while southerners began to focus more and more on growing cotton and slavery.