ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS 1815-1825

Dr.Yolanda Romero

• I. Turning Point• II.Population Movement

– Movement to the West• Mountain Men

– Brigade System

– Rendezvous System

• Farmers• Frontier Women• Life on the Frontier• Land Policy

Urban Centers

Manufacturing Cities

Commercial Centers

• Transportation – National Road

• Funding an issue

– Canals

– Steamboats

• Market Economy• Sectionalism evident• Tariff of 1815• Credit

– Local Merchants

– State Banks

• Industry– From the Home to the Factory

• “Putting Out” System

– Effects on family• Economic V. Emotional

– Husband’s Role Changes– Urban women

• Cult of Domesticity/true womanhood• New Power• Family Size• Sisterhood

• Industry and the Courts• John Marshall Court

McCulloch V. Maryland

Ogden v. Gibbons

Dartmouth V. Woodward

• III. Politics in the Era of Good Feelings– James Monroe 1816 & 1820

– Keynote Harmony

– Issues• Monroe Doctrine 1823

• Missouri Compromise