Era of good feelings:

FEDS AND ANTI FEDS

- Alien a Sedition Acts incited many enemies

- prep for potential war with france swelled debt and taxes -> federalist "handicap" in election of 1800

- Feds started attacking Jefferson -> kids with Sally Hemings, sccused of being an atheist

JEFFERSON STUFF

- Aaron Burr was VP

- Jeff policies -> check gov. power, frugal and simple, unexpectedly moderate

- Strict economy (doesn't tamper with Hamilton's bank system)

THE JUDICIARY

- judiciary Acts of 1801 -> expanded federal jurisdiction

- Hated John Marshall -> Marbury v. Madison (judicial review)

MADISON

- took office on March 4, 1809 -> Macon's Bill No.2

- Macon's Bill No.2 -> prohibited British + English warships from entering American harbors or territorial waters (it failed)

NATIVE ISSUES

- Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa went against assimilation

- Battle of Tippecanoe -> Tecumseh was killed

- Native confederacy dream died with him

WAR OF 1812

- Madison believed that war would restore faith in his Republican gov. -> divided the country by party and part of the country (sectionalism)

"THE AMERICAN SYSTEM"

- Nationalism rose along with manufacturing

- Tariff of 1816 -> for protection not revenue

- Henry Clay's "American System" -> strong banks, tariffs were essential, improved infrastructure (paid by states)

ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS

- James Monroe is the next prez -> level headed and positive

- peace and prosperity in early years

- many problems emerged though... tariffs, the bank, LA purchase, sectionalism, and slavery debate

PANIC OF 1819

- deflation, bankruptcy, bank failures, unemployment, overcrowded debt prisons

- contributing factors -> overspeculation of western lands and banks being mean

- Lower class hit the hardest

- Planted Jacksonian ideals

THE WEST

- 9 new states between 1791 and 1819

- Land was cheap which lead to mass immigration

- Land Act of 1820 (land was now cheaper and allowed for roads and canals to be built)

MISSOURI COMPROMISE

- Missouri was now a slave state and Maine was a non-slave state

- Slavery was outlawed above the Mason Dixon line

JUDICIAL NATIONALISM

- McCulloh v. Maryland -> implied powers

- Cohens v. Virginia -> state review

- Gibbons v. Ogden -> states can't control interstate commerce

- All empowered the Fed

- Fletcher v. Peak -> court can void state laws

- Dartmouth v. Woodward -> states can't change contracts

- All provided stability to businesses

MONROE DOCTRINE

- "Self-defence doctrine" writen by James Monroe

- it was never a law

Jackson:

CORRUPT BARGAIN

- last old school election

- no-one won so the House broke the deadlock and John Q. Adams won

- Clay's helped Adams so he became the secretary of state -> Jackson saw this as corrupt

ELECTION OF 1828

- very antagonistic -> mudslinging (including the wives) and many exagerrations

- Jackson won (southern and western voters)

JACKSONIAN PROBLEMS

- increased tariffs for all -> south called it the "Tariff of Abominations"

- South Carolina tried to nullify but Jackson threatened to hang everyone so they repealed their nullification

- Henry Clay's cools tensions -> Compromise Tariff of 1833

INDIAN REMOVAL

- Jackson ignored the Supreme Court and uprooted over 100,00 natives from their land

- Indian Removal Act -> trail of tears

- Jackson wins the election of 1832 despite this

THE WHIGS AND VAN BUREN

- The whigs were created because of hate for Jackson

- they were conservative progressives that were anti-corruption

- Martin Van Buren ran against Jackson in 1836 and won

- Panic of 1837 -> caused bc of mass speculation of western lands

TEXAS

- Mexico becomes independent in 1821

- many Americans lived in Texas and wanted to keep slavery -> slavery was abolished in Mexico

- Texas declared independence in 1836 -> became a (slave) state in 1837

THE TWO PARTY SYSTEM

- whigs win -> populist democratic style election

- Democrats -> self-interest and states rights

- Whigs -> overall society, liberal gov., and abolition

- birth of modern sectionalism

Slavery:

KING COTTON

- Cotton gin grew cotton farming big time -> created by Eli Whitney

- benefitted both the North and South -> shipping and manufacturing (N) + selling the actual cotton (S)

- Rich plantation owners ran the south

- Regular people still fought in the civil war because they aspired to own slaves

PLANTATION LIFE

- Slaves were extremely value (only 25% of southern population had over 10 slaves)

- Foreign exchange of slaves was ended in 1808 -> grew internal slave traded

- African traditions were blended with Christianity -> no intermarrying, dance, vivid preaching

- many tried to runaway

ABOLOTIONISTS

- American colonization society -> send slaves to Africa

- American anti-slavery society -> abolition and "equality”

onization society -> send slaves to Africa

- American anti-slavery society -> abolition and "equality”