The Era of “Good” Feelings 1815-1824 The “End” of Party Competition President James Monroe Born April 28, 1758 to a Planter family in Virginia Studied at William and Mary, but left to fight in the Revolutionary War, wounded at Trenton Lawyer Member of the Continental and Confederation Congresses Twice Governor of Virginia Served as Ambassador to France under Jefferson Secretary of State and Secretary of War under Madison Elected nearly unanimously in 1816, and with all but one vote in 1820 The Monroe Doctrine In the 1820s, Spain’s Latin American empire was in revolt and winning independence prompting fears of European intervention In response, President Monroe issues the Monroe Doctrine on December 2, 1823 Written by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, it proclaimed the United States as the protector of the independence of American countries from European interference The United States did not have the power to really enforce it at the time, but Britain was happy to do so Overtime, the Monroe Doctrine became the cornerstone of American foreign policy through the Second World War Election of 1820 The Era of (Not so) Good Feelings Seminole War General Andrew Jackson takes West Florida on his own authority, forcing the Monroe Administration to buy Florida from Spain and renounce claims to Texas to prevent war (The Adams-Onis Treaty) Now that the Republicans were the only party, they divided along the same ideological lines as the old party system: National Republicanism The Market Revolution The Panic of 1819 Slavery The Market Revolution The Cotton Gin Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 Allowed for the mechanical removal of seeds from cotton blooms allowing for the mass production of cotton Gave new life to American slavery Eli Whitney Inventions Interchangeable Parts Lathe Eli Whitney Inventions Drill Mill Steamship Clermont Invented by Robert Fulton in 1807 Invented in the United States Revolutionized sea travel, ships would no longer be bound by the winds and currents. Lowell Mills founded 1823 Erie Canal The National Road US Transportation Network The Effects of an Economy in Transition: Good and Bad The expansion of manufacturing and transportation led to integrated national and regional markets In the North, wage labor replaced the old apprentice system In the South, slavery was given new life due to the cotton gin leading to the creation of a pan-South slave market The first modern industrial downturn: the Panic of 1819 Antebellum Slavery The Development of the Institution of Slavery in the Early Republic At the time of the American Revolution, slavery was a struggling institution Tobacco was no longer a profitable crop for most planters The inherent contradictions between American ideals and slavery were impossible for some to ignore Northern states were outlawing the institution through gradual emancipation The Cotton Gin gave the institution new life and large-scale slave labor was need ...

1. The Era of “Good” Feelings
1815-1824
The “End” of Party Competition
President James Monroe
Born April 28, 1758 to a Planter family in Virginia
Studied at William and Mary, but left to fight in the
Revolutionary War, wounded at Trenton
Lawyer
Member of the Continental and Confederation Congresses
Twice Governor of Virginia
Served as Ambassador to France under Jefferson
Secretary of State and Secretary of War under Madison
Elected nearly unanimously in 1816, and with all but one vote
in 1820
The Monroe Doctrine
In the 1820s, Spain’s Latin American empire was in revolt and
winning independence prompting fears of European intervention
In response, President Monroe issues the Monroe Doctrine on
December 2, 1823
Written by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, it proclaimed
the United States as the protector of the independence of
American countries from European interference
The United States did not have the power to really enforce it at
the time, but Britain was happy to do so
Overtime, the Monroe Doctrine became the cornerstone of

2. American foreign policy through the Second World War
Election of 1820
The Era of (Not so) Good Feelings
Seminole War
General Andrew Jackson takes West Florida on his own
authority, forcing the Monroe Administration to buy Florida
from Spain and renounce claims to Texas to prevent war (The
Adams-Onis Treaty)
Now that the Republicans were the only party, they divided
along the same ideological lines as the old party system:
National Republicanism
The Market Revolution
The Panic of 1819
Slavery
The Market Revolution
The Cotton Gin
Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793
Allowed for the mechanical removal of seeds from cotton
blooms allowing for the mass production of cotton
Gave new life to American slavery
Eli Whitney Inventions
Interchangeable Parts

3. Lathe
Eli Whitney Inventions
Drill
Mill
Steamship Clermont
Invented by Robert Fulton in 1807
Invented in the United States
Revolutionized sea travel, ships would no longer be bound by
the winds and currents.
Lowell Mills founded 1823
Erie Canal
The National Road
US Transportation Network

4. The Effects of an Economy in Transition: Good and Bad
The expansion of manufacturing and transportation led to
integrated national and regional markets
In the North, wage labor replaced the old apprentice system
In the South, slavery was given new life due to the cotton gin
leading to the creation of a pan-South slave market
The first modern industrial downturn: the Panic of 1819
Antebellum Slavery
The Development of the Institution of Slavery in the Early
Republic
At the time of the American Revolution, slavery was a
struggling institution
Tobacco was no longer a profitable crop for most planters
The inherent contradictions between American ideals and
slavery were impossible for some to ignore
Northern states were outlawing the institution through gradual
emancipation
The Cotton Gin gave the institution new life and large-scale
slave labor was needed for cultivation in the emerging Deep
South
The Abolition of the international slave trade in 1808 allowed
the Upper South to turn their slaves into a profit-making
commodity by selling slaves south
The South was increasingly worried about its position and its
society as more voices in the North embraced abolition
The Missouri Crisis of 1819-1820
Missouri applied for admission in 1819
Senator John Tallmadge of New York proposed an amendment
to the admission legislation prohibiting slavery in Missouri

5. Congress deadlocked and could make no decision on admission
before it adjourned in March 1819, would not sit again until
December
Issue touched not only issues of slavery and North/South
balance, but the very nature of the American Republic
The Missouri Compromise
Compromise became law April 6, 1820
Two states were admitted, Missouri and Maine (to keep
sectional balance
A line was drawn across the remainder of the Louisiana
Purchase at 36°30 north of which slavery would not be
permitted
Not part of the law, but an understanding was reached to keep
sectional balance