The Era of Good Feelings 1815-1824

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The Era of Good Feelings 1815-1824
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The Election of 1816
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James Monroe 1816-1824
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President James Monroe

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Elizabeth Kortright Monroe

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The Administration of James Monroe

• Political stability
• Republican rule
• Lack of political interest
• Rush-Bagot Agreement of 1817
• Establishing a Canadian boundary
• Florida becomes part of the Union
• Sec. Of State John Quincy Adams
• Adams-Onis Treaty

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John Quincy AdamsA bulldog among spaniels!
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The West the NW 1819-1824
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Adams-Onis Treaty, 1819
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The Convention of 1818
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US Population Density
1810
1820
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The Election of 1820
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Varieties of American Nationalism

• Expanding Westward  
• The Great Migrations
• Reasons for Westward Expansion

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Varieties of American Nationalism

• Expanding Westward    
• White Settlers in the Old Northwest
• Frontier Life  
• A mobile society

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Varieties of American Nationalism

• Expanding Westward   
• The Plantation System in the Southwest
• Cotton and the Expansion of Slavery  

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Varieties of American Nationalism

• Expanding Westward    
• Trade and Trapping in the Far West
• Astors American Fur Company
• Mountain Men
• The Fur Trade and the Market Economy

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John Jacob AstorAmerican Fur Company
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Varieties of American Nationalism

• Expanding Westward 
• Eastern Images of the West
• Stephen Longs Expedition

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Longs Expedition
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The Industrial Revolution

• Shift from self-sufficiency to a specialized
  interdependent economy
• Reasons for the industrial revolution
• High labor costs
• Inventors
• Oliver Evans, Eli Whitney, Peter Cooper
• Abundant natural resources
• Water, Coal, Lumber etc.

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Eli Whitney and the Cotton gin

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The Industrial Revolution (cont)

• Entrepreneurs
• Piracy
• Samuel Slater, John and Arthur Schofield,
  Francis Cabot Lowell
• Capital
• Banks
• Protective tariffs

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Samuel Slater Francis Cabot Lowell
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Changes in the textile industry

• Cottage industry
• Factories
• Emerging urban industrial working class
• British monopoly
• Mill towns
• Slater mills
• Lowell mills
• Lowell girls
• Child labor

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Slater Mills

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Pat Points

• What is the foundation of American foreign policy
  that began waaaaaayyyyy back in the early 1800s?

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Sec. Of State John Quincy AdamsProposes the
Monroe Doctrine

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Monroe Doctrine

• Russian threat
• Fort Ross
• Austrian and French threats
• Spanish-American independence

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Western Hemisphere
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Chief Justice John Marshall 1801-1835

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Landmark Court decisions

• McCulloch vs. Maryland
• Gibbons vs. Ogden

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Sectional tensions

• John C. Calhoun
• Reviving an old institution
• The cotton gin
• King cotton
• Slaves as a commodity
• Gradual northern emancipation
• manumission
• Mason-Dixon line

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John C. Calhoun

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Sectional tensions (cont)

• Missouri Compromise 1820
• Henry Clay
• Maintaining balance
• New states admitted to the union in pairs (1
  slave 1 free)

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Missouri Compromise