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Republican Culture

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Foreign Policy Activity

  • Complete the matching activity with a partner
  • No notes!!
  • Then rank in chronological order

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Era of Good Feelings

Election of 1820

Why called Era

of Good Feelings?

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Capitalist Commonwealth

  • What happened to the national bank?
  • What caused the Panic of 1819?
  • How did rural manufacturing change the America economy?
  • What was the commonwealth system?
    • Do you agree with it?

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Roads and Canals

  • Private turnpikes
  • Federal financing on national roads
  • Road building largely NE phenomena
  • Canals cheaper than roads to transport goods
    • Erie Canal—connect NYC and Great Lakes
    • Links NE and NW
    • Increased flow of goods
    • NYC port of exit

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First Turnpike- 1790 Lancaster, PA

By 1832, nearly 2400 mi. of road connected most major cities.

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Cumberland (National Road), 1811

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Republican Culture

  • What now defined what it meant to be an ‘American?’
  • How did marriage change during the Era of Good Feelings?
  • How did Republican Motherhood impact child rearing?
  • How did education change?

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Sectional Issues

  • Population growth 4 mil to 9.6 mil 1790-1820
  • Division over a tariff-why?
    • West-mixed opinions
    • Northeast wanted duties
    • South does NOT!
  • National Bank—was not renewed in 1811
    • Reauthorized in 1816 due to inflation
    • North in favor but south/west mixed

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Western Land Sales Boom

  • 1804 160 acres at $2 an acre—80 down to get land in west
  • West wanted cheapest land possible
  • Northeast worried about losing labor
  • Southerners concerned about competition

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Slavery

  • Biggest divisor
  • Caused little issue until 1819
  • Equal number of slave/free states admitted

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Cotton Boom

  • Eli Whitney’s cotton gin INCREASED SLAVERY

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Slavery

  • What efforts were made to emancipate slaves?
  • What justifications did southerners use for slavery?
  • Clip…

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Missouri Compromise

  • Debate!

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Missouri Compromise

  • NOT A MORALITY ISSUE
  • 1819 the US consisted of 11 free and 11 slave states
  • Missouri wanted to be admitted as slave state-but too far north
  • House Speaker Henry Clay provided a compromise
    • Missouri admitted as slave state
    • Maine admitted as free state
    • All territory/new states NORTH of 36 degrees north will be FREE

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Missouri Compromise

  • SIGNIFICANCE: Temporary solution to a huge problem
    • What is the purpose of a union if such an issue can divide it so easily?
    • “We have a wolf by the ears, and we can neither safely hold him, or safely let him go” –Jefferson

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Marshall Court

  • Marbury v. Madison 1803
  • Fletcher v. Peck 1810
  • Cohens v. Virginia 1821
  • McCulloch v. Maryland 1819
  • Dartmouth College v. Woodward 1819
  • Gibbons v. Ogden 1824

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