AIM: During the Era of Good Feelings
was there more or less division?
Good times or division?
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(1816) James Monroe – “Era of Good
Feelings”
Nationalism: place the national interests
over all others - national interests come
before regional/foreign concerns
Clay’s American System? Unity or Division?
Marshall’s Decisions? More or Less
Division?
Westward Expansion? More or Less
Division
Westward Expansion
Secretary of State John Quincy Adams
worked to guarantee that the US would
be secure and able to expand westward:
 Rush-Bagot (1817)
 Convention of 1818
 Adams-Onis (1819) – Florida
 Monroe Doctrine (1823)
Westward Expansion
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Why go west?
When territory’s population = 60,000 may
apply for statehood
Missouri Compromise: preserves
balance between slave & free states
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Maine admitted into Union as free state
Missouri as slave state
LA Territory: 36”30’ divides slave and free –
north= free; south=slave
How does the Missouri Compromise promote sectionalism?
Election of 1824
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All candidates represent sectional
interests:
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John Quincy Adams – (North; Elite
Faction) – 30%;
Henry Clay (West; Elite Faction) – 11%
Andrew Jackson (West; Common Man)
41%
William H. Crawford (South; Common
Man) – 11%
What good feelings?
The Election of 1824 – The Corrupt
Bargain
The “Corrupt Bargain”
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Jackson wins popular vote but not
enough electoral votes
J.Q. Adams - 2nd place
House of Reps votes
John C. Calhoun
Clay convinced House of Reps to
support Adams
Adams won: Clay = Sec. of State
Henry Clay
Dawn of “Jacksonian
Democracy”
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New Dem-Republican Party
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After “corrupt bargain”: Jacksonians
leave Republican party
Sabotaged Adams’ policies
Next election: most states ease voting
qualifications; few require property
Result?
Election of 1828
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Jackson appeals to common citizen First presidential candidate from west
of Appalachians
Jackson says from humble
beginnings, in reality is wealthy
Jackson wins 1828 presidential
election by landslide - new voters are
key!