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The Era of Good Feelings 1815-1824. The Election of 1816. James Monroe [1816-1824]. President James Monroe. Elizabeth Kortright Monroe. The Administration of James Monroe. Political stability Republican rule Lack of political interest Rush-Bagot Agreement of 1817
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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
US Population Density 1810 1820
Varieties of American Nationalism • Expanding Westward • The Great Migrations • Reasons for Westward Expansion
Varieties of American Nationalism • Expanding Westward • White Settlers in the Old Northwest • Frontier Life • A mobile society
Varieties of American Nationalism • Expanding Westward • The Plantation System in the Southwest • Cotton and the Expansion of Slavery
Varieties of American Nationalism • Expanding Westward • Trade and Trapping in the Far West • Astor’s American Fur Company • Mountain Men • The Fur Trade and the Market Economy
Varieties of American Nationalism • Expanding Westward • Eastern Images of the West • Stephen Long’s Expedition
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.
The Industrial Revolution (con’t) Entrepreneurs Piracy Samuel Slater, John and Arthur Schofield, Francis Cabot Lowell Capital Banks Protective tariffs
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
Monroe Doctrine Russian threat Fort Ross Austrian and French threats Spanish-American independence
Landmark Court decisions Fletcher vs. Peck Martin vs. Hunter’s Lessee McCulloch vs. Maryland
Sectional tensions John C. Calhoun Reviving an old institution The cotton gin “King cotton” Slaves as a commodity Gradual northern emancipation Mason-Dixon line
Sectional tensions (con’t) Missouri Compromise James Tallmadge Henry Clay Maintaining balance