Era Of Good Feelings Dbq Analysis

Following the War of 1812, the Federalist Party’s demise was sealed during the Hartford Convention in 1815. This allowed the Era of Good Feelings to commence and America was united under a new political party, the Democrats. Although, the Era of Good Feelings came to an end during the Election of 1824, numerous changes such as, increases in voting participation and the beginnings of how political candidates appealed to the common man affected elections and political campaigns from 1815 to 1840.
As the years progressed from 1815-1840 the voter participation was increasing drastically. As seen in document A, in 1824 there was a 26.9 percent of voter participation which tripled in a matter of 16 years. After the controversial “corrupt bargain” of 1824, voters were determined to have their voices heard in order to bring who they truly wanted into power. In addition to the rise of participation, the percentage of state allowing the common voters themselves to chose presidential electors climbed to almost 100%. Andrew Jackson assisted the increase of voters, he removed the requirements and opened up the voting pool to more common folk; this gave the common people more power equal to that of the aristocracy.
The emergence of two new parties, the National Republic party and the Anti-Masonic party, both ran candidates against Andrew Jackson, who ultimately won. At the same time, the Nullification Crisis in South Carolina was dividing the political state election, between Nullifies and Unionists. In order to get people their news, there was a spike in different newspapers published around the United States in 1835, in total there was 1,200 different newspaper. (Document G). In addition, to providing news, the newspaper encouraged even more people to begin exercising their political