LEQ

why the two parties emerged after the era of good feelings

context:

explain the era of good feelings 1815-1825

  • emerged after the war of 1812

  • sense of national unity, political optimism, reduced partisan conflict due to the two wins against Britain

  • democratic-republican party (James Monroe)—focused on national development, economic growth, and expansion (ex. Missouri Compromise of 1820, Monroe Doctrine, chartering of the Second Bank of the United States, support for infrastructure projects/Henry Clay’s American System)

end of era

  • disagreements over expansion of slavery (Missouri Compromise of 1820), divided the North and South

  • economic instability (Panic of 1819) fueling financial distress and discontent due to widespread unemployment and bankruptcies

    • lack of foreign demand/increased foreign competition: end of Napoleonic wars in europe reduced demand for American goods and the price of cotton dropped significantly

    • debt/banking policies: bank of the us tightened its policies and many americans were put in debt because war efforts from the war of 1812 needed to be paid off

  • election of 1824—division of the Democratic-Republican party over economic policies, controversial 1824 presidential election, differing views on the power of the federal government

    • no electoral majority: four main candidates from the same democratic republican—andrew jackson, john quincy adams, henry clay, and  william crawford but no one had the majority vote of electoral votes

    • election was decided by the House of Rep

    • Corrupt Bargain: Clay helped Adams get elected as president by the House and was then later appointed Secretary of State by Adams

economics of Civil War

nationalism vs. sectionalism

nationalism

  • post war of 1812 (era of good feelings)

  • monroe doctrine

  • henry clay’s american system

  • political unity—democratic republicans

sectionalism

  • civil war with slavery (wilmot proviso, missouri compromise of 1820)

  • nullification crisis/tariff of abomination (political confrontation between South Carolina and the US federal government over tariffs, SC believed that states had the right to nullify federal laws they deemed unconstitutional, protected Northern industrires which harmed SC’s economy due to the higher prices for imported goods and potential British retaliation against Southern cotton exports)

rerform movements during antebellum and connection to the great awakening

abolitonism

public schooling

feminism

utopians

prison and asylum

temperance

analyze the extent to which reconstruction after the civil war was successful at meeting the needs of freedmen