Era Of Good Feelings
Johnvir Pangli The Era of Good Feelings isn’t correctly named, it started post the War of 1812. After winning this war it brought and increase in nationalism thus the name, but political problems arose, sectionalism increased, and most importantly many lost money or all of what they had in the weak and unstable economic situation. Slavery issues arose in the western states making many afraid of a civil war.
When the war of 1812 concluded many Americans had an increase in nationalism due to the win with the powerful British army. Americans began to think of themselves as a whole nation rather than where they were born from. Court cases such as McCulloch v. Maryland established sovereignty which stated the power of the Union lies with the people not with the power of individual states (document d). In order to strengthen the union many wanted to cancel the space between states and the government by uniting them with a new system of roads and canals (document b). This idea of uniting the union with better transportation means was presented by Henry Clay. It was part of his 3 part system to help the American economy and indirectly help unite the Union. The nation soon started to unite as a whole, a good example is Fourth of July Celebration in 1819 that shows patriotism and unity (document c).
Following the Hartford Convention the Federalist party soon died out. This caused the total domination of Democratic-Republican Party. It was demonstrated by the election of 1820 when Democratic-Republican representative James Monroe won in a landslide victory 231 to Adam’s 1(document I). This would mark the Democratic-Republican election with no substantial opposition. However 4 years later there would be the emergence of the “corrupt bargain”. Although Andrew Jackson won more electoral and public votes he still hadn’t won a majority of the votes. The election was sent to the House of Representatives where Henry Clay promised Adam presidency if he was elected as
When the war of 1812 concluded many Americans had an increase in nationalism due to the win with the powerful British army. Americans began to think of themselves as a whole nation rather than where they were born from. Court cases such as McCulloch v. Maryland established sovereignty which stated the power of the Union lies with the people not with the power of individual states (document d). In order to strengthen the union many wanted to cancel the space between states and the government by uniting them with a new system of roads and canals (document b). This idea of uniting the union with better transportation means was presented by Henry Clay. It was part of his 3 part system to help the American economy and indirectly help unite the Union. The nation soon started to unite as a whole, a good example is Fourth of July Celebration in 1819 that shows patriotism and unity (document c).
Following the Hartford Convention the Federalist party soon died out. This caused the total domination of Democratic-Republican Party. It was demonstrated by the election of 1820 when Democratic-Republican representative James Monroe won in a landslide victory 231 to Adam’s 1(document I). This would mark the Democratic-Republican election with no substantial opposition. However 4 years later there would be the emergence of the “corrupt bargain”. Although Andrew Jackson won more electoral and public votes he still hadn’t won a majority of the votes. The election was sent to the House of Representatives where Henry Clay promised Adam presidency if he was elected as