Describes the US during Monroe's Presidency (1817-1825)

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4. • Why were the leaders of New England
disturbed at the nomination end election of
James Monroe for president, and what did
Monroe do to calm these fears?
• Why was Monroe’s time as President
referred to as the “Era of Good Feelings”?

5. A “Virginia Dynasty”
• 1st—George Washington (1789-1797)—Virginia
• 2nd—John Adams (1797-1801)—Massachusetts
• 3rd—Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)—Virginia
• 4th—James Madison (1809-1817)—Virginia
• 5th—James Monroe (1817-1825)—Virginia

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A bulldog among spaniels!
Secretary of State
during Monroe’s
presidency
Hoped to promote
American Expansion

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10. • Why was Florida such a problem for
Americans in the South, and how did
Andrew Jackson make the resolution of
the problem an absolute necessity?
• What were the critical points decided by
the Adams-Onis negotiations?

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Tariff of 1816
Second Bank of the
U. S.
Internal improvements
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17. Panic of 1819
• What were the causes of the Panic of
1819?
• What impact did the Panic of 1819 have
on the American economy? What did the
government do to try to ease the pain of
this depression?

18. Panic of 1819
• Prices of American farm goods soared
• Land boom in the West
• Starting in 1819 National Bank tightened
credit, called in loans, & foreclosed
mortgages
• Led state banks to fail, they too had to call
in loans (many land speculators could not
pay up)
• National Bank became burning political
issue

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All slaves born in Missouri after the
territory became a state would be freed
at the age of 25.
Passed by the House, not in the Senate.
The North controlled the House, and the
South had enough power to block it in
the Senate.

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21. Missouri Compromise (1820)
• Maine=Free State
• Missouri=Slave State
• Slavery prohibited in area north of
Missouri’s southern boundary
• Balance of free & slave states still equal

22. • What were the major elements of
disagreement in the debate over the
admission of Missouri into the Union?
• Which group opposed Missouri's entering
the Union as a slave state? Why?
• What was the Missouri Compromise? Why
did nationalists regard it as a "happy
resolution of a danger to the Union"? Why
were others less optimistic?

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3. What would the
US do if the
warning was not
headed?
MMoonnrrooee
DDooccttrriinnee
2. What warning is given
to the European
1. What foreign countries?
policy
principles are
established?
Referred to as
America’s Self-Defense
Doctrine.

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Candidate Popular Vote
Electoral
Vote
Andrew Jackson 43% 99
J.Q. Adams 31% 32
William
13% 41
Crawford
Henry Clay 13% 37

30. “Corrupt Bargain”
• Why did Jacksonians call the result of the
1824 election a corrupt bargain?
• How did the election itself affect Adams’
presidency?
• What were the results of the election of
1828?