Era of Good Feelings

The Era of Good feeling

Pride, Peace, Progress, Prosperity

Under Monroe

Election of 1816

Mass & Conn & Del were the only federalists

Election of 1820

All republican (1 fed)

Rush-Bagot Pact (1818)

Rush- Us secretary of State

Bagot- British minister

• Signed by Monroe and George III

-Demilitarize the Great Lakes (coast guard still there)

-John Quincy Adams was the minister to Great Britain that suggested it

Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)

Onis- Spain

Florida was bought for $5million and Spain gives up claims to Oregon Territory

US gave up claims to Texas

Issues In Florida

• Semino Nations raid Georgua

• Andrew Jackson runs into Florida while looking for slaves, catches them, anc captures Spanish forts and the governor (EVEN HANGING THEM) (Spanish help the native Americans)

• John Quincy Adams saves him bc he’s a “National hero”

One of the reasons Spain gives up Florida plus they were busy with the Mexico Revolution (1810-1821)

Simon Bolivar

South American Freedom

George Washington of South America

Monroe Doctorine (1823)

• European powers were to stay out of the affairs on American continents and we would stay out of Europe

  • includes Russia and the Holy Alliance (JQA)

• Written by JQA

• Britain supports it so they establish trade with ex-spanish colonies

  • yay, no mercantilism!

Market Revolution (1820-1830s)

• Linking goods and products across regions of America

  • NE manufactured, S&W produced raw materials

• Roads, Canals, railroads and other infastructure helped us

• Water power→steam power; precision parts→ mass production

• American System (Henry Clay)

Labor shortage

led to the idea that women and children only do domestic work changes

begins with the occidental slave trade about 1 million slaves

Labor supply

• south- slaves

• Immigrants in North live poorly and discrimination (Irish/German)

• Middle/lower class women and children fill holes

women were expected

to create the ideal household for a man to come home to

“True Woman”

Purity, piety, submissive, domesticity

Cult of Domesticity (Cult of true Womanhood)

• Popular with people newly aquired wealth

• family of means would not send a woman to worm

Lowell System

Hire only young, unmarried women from local farms with no kids to work 12-14hr days

Pros of Lowell System

• Tightly controlled mill town

• pay women less

• women were less trouble

• lived on site in boarding houses

Women benefits

• Made out own money

• goat away from the male dominant family farms

• safe (edu, friendship, music)

• early organized labor

• unionized (only progress) in 1830

National Road/Cumberland Road/Route 40 (1811-1838)

• connected St Louis and Baltimore

• Made by man-power (hand) pickaxe, shovel, saw, axe

• 66ft wide; 12-18in road bed filled with concrete stone

• cut through forrests

• 821 mi (150 NJ)

Water Route

duluth Minnesota to Sandy Hook NJ

Eerie Canal (1818-1825)

Buffalo NY to Albany NY

• Trusted by govenor DeWitt Clinton (on $1000 bill). Clintons ditch.fally

• Connected Hudson to NYC to atlantic to the world

• Cost millions and made by immigrants

• Inspired Ohio Susquehanna, and CD cannals

• 15 yrs, NYC busiest port in America >Boston+Balt+NewOrl

• NY a behemoth

• Powered by horse/mule

• 364 mi (3x NJ)

• Connected NW→East coast

• 80 years

• 1960 fallen off due to other methods

Market Revolution

1. Better transportation

   1. federal money (many opposed due to constitutionality)

   2. roads, Canals, speedboats, railroads

2. Expansion of manufacturing

3. Second BUS approved

   1. expand money supply

   2. loans for business expansion

   3. 20 yr hcharter

   4. 1791-1811; 1816-1836

4. New Comercial lows to encourage Entrepruners

   1. John Marshall

5. Inexpensive/obtainable patent protection

Industry Revoltion

• Factories in NE

• Water mills powered it

  • built near rushing water so more power

Toquiville and Niagra falls

A wonder of the world, worried about all the factories being built so he urged all the French to come see it before its beauty was ruined

Coal

With the transition from water to steam power, coal became the most common way to heat the water to power pistons, wheels, and gears

Factories in Urban areas

with the change to steam power factories could move closer to their market and potential workers as well as ports

Interchangable parts

Eli Wittney- inventor, part of the American system of manufacturing

Chicago

• Meat Packing Industry 1867

• Assembly line

  • shorter training time

• mega freezer

Ford Model T

1913; assembly line

Nationalists are

Running the country

• Calhoun- south

• clay-west

• webster- north

government takes action to benefit the whole country

American System

Henry Clay’s famous speech against Jackson

• Focused on Anti-Jackson; pro Whig

  • increase federal power

1. Increase tariffs to protect and promote American industry

2. National bank to foster commerce

3. Federal subsidies for infastructure to develop profitable markets for agriculture

The average Southern planter

Enormously wealthy with land and labor

Fire eater- radically ressist anti-slave movement; drive out and kill abolitionists

Cotton Gin

Eli Whitney, separated the cotton from other stuff. Drove up demand for slaves labor and increased slave value

Slavery opinion in North

Abolitionist movement is on the rise

• Trouble making extremist demand an immediate end to slavery

• support topps could be found everywhere

• basically, abolitionists were not liked/welcomed

Sectionalism

difficult for national/congressional unity because everyone was in it for themselves

Missouri Compromise (1820)

Allows/limits slavery and divides Lousiana purchase line at 36-30. All of Arkanas and Oklahoma. Maine as free for Missouri slave.

11 free vs 11 slave

keep balance of the senate

temporary solution /subside sectional feelings for 30 years

Marshall’s court

federalsits who valued central government over states rights

McCulloh Vs Maryland (1819)

• Federalists had implied powers to create a bank

• states could not tax federal institutions

  • “power to tax is power to destroy”

• Federal law> state law

• Reinforces Article VI section 6; supremacy clause

Darthmouth College Case (1819)

• King gave New Hampshire a charter in 1769 to create a private college

  • NH is like bro lets make this public and and amazing

• Marshall rules with the charter and King George the 3rd

• “Contract Sancity”

  • unless under duress

Gibbons vs Ogden (1824)

• NY gave steamboat licence to operate in the water between the states

• NJ was like hell yeah put me there too and they both were like wtf

• Ruling: Congress regulates trade between states

  • federal control over economy

  • no monopoly unless explicitly stated in contract

• Article 1 section 8 clause 3

  • Congress regulates interstate and foreign commerce

Height of Fur trade (1820-1840)

Mountain men- thrived and making money

• Fur in high demand because most countries overhunted

• wealth from fur

• map west/rockies

• intelligence on Native americnas

• When it ended the mountain men opened trading posts and pioneers

1803- fur trappers were violently, nationalisticlly, racistly, territorial

John Colter

With Lewis and Clark but left to explore Yellowstone.

Colters Run survival story- naked hunt

Kit Carson

Fled west at 16 and lived with NAtives to become famous. SErved in Mexico American war and emissary to NA

James Rekworth

half white/black and worked to buy his freedom. Discovered mountain pass to CA and 10 native wifes

Jim Bridger

3 wives, 1rst Angelo to explore great salt lake, Outpost on Oregon trail

Jedediah Smith

1rst to traverse CA coastline to Oregon. Create Oregon trail. Killed by comanate at 32 on santa fe trail

Brown bears are a force to be reckoned with

Rendezous (1825-1840)

meet up in Whyoming or other places after hunting for a year. all the mountain men

fur trade dies due to

overhunting and fashion changes

John Jacob Astor

America’s first multimilionaire

• American Fun Company 1808

• Clatsop county has a town named after him called Asotria