War of 1812 and the Era of Good Feelings

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War of 1812and the Era of Good Feelings
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Mr. Madisons War

• Inherited Jeffersons diplomatic problems
• Non-Intercourse Act leads to
• Macons Bill 2 offered a trade bribe to G.B.
  or Fr.
• Nappy jumps at the chance

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War Hawks

• Henry Clay of Tenn the growing western
  nationalism, survivors, Indian fighters
• John C. Calhoun of S.C.
• Dan Webster of New Engl.

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Red Stick Confederacy

• 1811 Shawnee take a stand
• Tecumseh, diplomatic chief
• The Prophet, spiritual leader
• Against land sales and liquor
• Wm Henry Harrison gov. of Indiana Territory

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• 3 million acres for 10,000
• Tecumseh attempts to work both sides, US and GB
• Tippecanoe
• And Tyler Too!
• Confederacy heads to Canada

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War Fever Grows

• Free Trade and Sailors Rights!
• Could have said Free land the Indians or
  Canadians
• June 18, 1812 WAR

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• Pros
• Beginning, GB troops in Europe
• Oliver Perry builds fleet
• 1813 We have met the enemy and they are ours
• Tecumseh dies

• Cons
• 16 ship navy
• GBs navy can blockade ports
• Canadians anti-
• Tecumseh
• GB on G. Lakes
• US not on Lakes

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War drags on

• 1814 US fighting on own soil
• Nappy has been defeated so no more distractions
  for GB
• Aug. Britishs best men arrive
• March on Washington

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Fort McHenry

• Baltimore
• Resistance despite massive bombardment
• Francis Scott Key

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Hero of New Orleans

• Control of the Mississippi R.
• Tennessee Indian fighters, pirates, creoles,
  slaves
• Dec.25 trenches
• Bloodiest, least necessary battle

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Treaty of Ghent

• Signed Dec.24th
• Sec. Of State John Quincy Adams
• Nothing was adjusted, nothing settled. Return to
  prewar situation
• Rush-Bagot 1817
• No warships on Great Lakes
• 1818 US/Canada border at 49 lat.

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Results of War

• Questions of treason by NE at Hartford
  Convention. Last breath of Federalist Party
• Respect from foreign govts.
• Sense of nationalism pride

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• War heroes Jackson and Harrison will gain White
  House
• Blockade along w/Jeffersons embargo had
  increased US manufacturing
• Free of obstacles it is time to move WEST

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Our country, right or wrong!

• Growing nationalism
• Bank re-chartered
• 1816 protective tariff supported by Calhoun of SC
• Clays American System
• Presidential veto splits party

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Monroe Years

• last of the Founding Fathers
• 1816 election sees the last Federalist candidate
• 1820 only Monroe
• Era of Good Feelings
• But

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Era of Inflamed Feelings

• 1819 Panic
• Deflation, depression, bankruptcies, bank
  failures, unemployment
• Land over speculation
• Bank gets much of the blame

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Problems growing w/West

• More dependent on Nat. govt
• Population growing
• 1819 24 states
• More nationalistic

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• Missouri
• Tallmadge Amendment
• Prohibited the further introduction of slavery
  into
• When 25 years old youre free
• Senate veto
• Need a compromise for political reasons not moral.

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Missouri Compromise

• 1820
• Missouri slave state
• Maine free state
• Louisiana Purchase land above the 3630 line is
  free soil below slave.
• We have the wolf by the ears and we can neither
  safely hold him, nor safely let him go.
  Jefferson

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McCulloch v. Maryland

• John Marshall still therein the end as important
  as Hamilton in creating a strong central govt.
• Declares the National Bank legal.

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Foreign Policy

• John Quincy Adams, Sec. Of State
• Border questions, desire for Fl and Oregon
• Jackson in Florida leads to Adams Fl Purchase
  Treaty and 1819 Adams-Onis Treaty

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Monroe Doctrine

• Concern for our hemisphere and the new Latin
  American countries.
• US and GB discuss joint declaration but
• 1823 a hands off policy

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1. US would not interfere in the affairs of European
   nations or colonies in the Americas
2. European nations should not interfere with newly
   independent Latin American nations.
3. US would oppose any attempt to establish new
   colonies in the Americas.