The Era of “Good Feelings”

What accounted for the rise in American nationalism

during the early 1800s?

I. Henry Clay’s American System

Strong banking system Second bank of the

United States Protective tariffs

Tariff of 1816 Internal

improvements Funding for roads,

canals (Republicans adopt

many positions of Federalists)

II. “Era of Good Feelings”

one-party government (Republicans) growing sectionalism Westward expansion – “Ohio fever,” Indian

wars, Cumberland road, canals, steamboat, Land Act of 1820

Panic of 1819 – deflation, bankruptcies, bank failures, unemployment, debtor’s prisons, mortgage foreclosures Caused by overspeculation of frontier lands –

National Bank

III. Diplomacy under Monroe and J.Q. Adams

Rush-Bagot Agreement (1817) – disarmed Great Lakes Treaty of 1818 w/ Britain

share Newfoundland fisheries, Oregon Territory jointly occupied by US and GB

Acquisition of Florida Monroe sent Jackson to secure southern border

Jackson exceeded his instructions Adams urges Monroe to defend Jackson Adams-Onis Treaty (1819) – sets boundary b/w US and Spanish

territory; US gets Florida Monroe Doctrine

Reaffirmed American neutrality U.S. wouldn’t interfere with existing colonies in Western

Hemisphere but wouldn’t permit further colonization Any attempt by a European nation to colonize any area of the

Western Hemisphere would be perceived as an act of aggression against the United States

Russo-American Treaty, 1824