The 'Era of Good Feeling', a phrase fist used in the Boston Columbian Centinel newspaper on July 12, 1817 following the good-will visit to boston of the new president James Monroe is generally applied to describe the national mood of the United states from about 1815 to 1825. The period after the conclusion of the war of 1812 was marked by a lower level of relative consensus over domestic policy illustrated on the lack of partisan factions. The era reached its peak in the election of 1820, president Monroe was re-elected with all but one electoral vote.It really began in 1815, when for the first time american citizens could afford to pay less attention to European political and military affairs. The good feeling, was stimulated by two events of 1816, during the presidency of James Madison; the enactment of the first Us protective tariff and the establishment of the second national bank. The perception of harmony in the union was probably misleading and over simplified

The art of Era of good Feeling

During the Era of Good feeling the Founding Fathers, the revolutionary spirit and the overcoming events inspired the people to create art of their young history. Charles Wilson Peale,Gilbert Stuarts, and John Trumbull were examples of preeminent painters of their generation. Possessed enormous natural talents, which they devoted to the representation of human likeness,character and battle. This retrospective exhibition highlights their achievement by displaying a careful selection group of portraits of exceptional quality, ranging in date from the early works they produced in from maine to the Mississippi River.

Gilbert Stuarts painted the famous portrait of President Washington and was well known form painting important people in our history.He made his audience have an idea of the physical characteristics of the important people in our past. Such as Washington as president to the right
	Charles Wilson Peale was another important painter which demonstrated his talents through the art of history .A fabulous painting of President Washington in Prinston, like as this one gave the impression of Washington's importance to the left
John Trumbell is well known best for his art of "battle" rather than the aristocracy of the famous historical american figures. He painted expectacular defeated battles such as the Battle of Saratoga, and the battle of yorktown such as the one to the left

The end of the first party system

Ever since 1800, the presidency seemed to have been the special possession of virginians. After two terms in office jefferson choose his secretary of state, James madison of Virginia, to succeed him, and after two or more terms, Madison secured the presidential nomination for his secretary of State, james Monroe, also of Virginia.Many in the north were expressing impatience with so called virginia dynasty, but the republicans had no difficulty electing their candidate in the listless campaign of 1816. Monroe received 183 ballots in the electoral college; his federalist opponent, Rufus king of new york, received only 34 from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Delaware.

Monroe was 61 years old when he became president. In the course of his long career,he had served a a soldier in the revolution, as a diplomat, and most recently as a cabinet officer.He entered office under was seemed to be remarkable favorable circumstances. With the decline of the Federalists, his party faces no serious opposition. With the conclusion of nth war of 1812, the nation faced no important international threats. American politicians had dreamed since the first days of the republic of a time in which partisian divisions and fractional disputes might come to an end. In the prosperous postwar years, Monroe attempted to use his office to realize that dream.

He made that clear, above all, in the selection of his cabinet. For secretary of state he choose the New Englander and former federalist John Quincy Adams. Jefferson's Madison, and Monroe had all served as secretary of state before becoming president; Adams therefore immediately became the heir apparent, suggesting that the 'Virginia Dynasty' would soon come to an end. Speaker of the house, Henry Clay declined an offer to be secretary of war, so Monroe named John C. Calhoun instead. In his other appointments, too, Monroe took pains to include both northerners and southerners, easterners and westerners, federalists and republicans.

Soon after his inauguration, Monroe did what no president since washington had done; he made a goodwill tour through the country. In New England, so recently the Scene of rabid federalist discontent, he was greeted everywhere with enthusiastic demonstrations. The Colombian Centinel, a Federalist newspaper in boston, commenting on the presidential Jubilee in that city, observed that and era of good feelings had arrived. And on the surface, at least, the years of Monroe's presidency did appear to be an era of good feeling. In 1820. Monroe was reelected without opposition. For all practical purposes, the federalist party had now ceased to exist.

...In conclusion.

*By the 1820's the federalists were gone and Monroe was relected easily

*he received all but one electoral vote

John Quincy Adams and Florida

Like his father, the second president, John Quincy Adams had second much of life in diplomatic services. And even before becoming secretary of state, he had become one of the great diplomats in American History. His first challenge was Florida. The united states had already annexed West Florida, but that claim was dispute. Most americans moreover, still belive that nation should gain possession of the entire peninsula, In 1817, Adams began negotiating with the spanish minister, Luis de Onis, in hopes of resolving the dispute and gaining the entire territory for the United States. In the meantime, however, events were taking place in Florida itself. Andrew Jackson, now in command of american troops along the Florida frontier, had orders from secretary of war Calhoun to adopt the necessary measures to stop continuing raids on American territory by seminole indians south of the border, Jackson used those orders as an excuse to invade Florida.The operation became known as the Seminole War.Oniz realized, therefore, that he had little choice but to come to terms with the Americans. Under the provisions of the Adams-Onis treaty of 1819, Spain ceded all of Florida to the United States and gave up its territory north of the 42nd parallel in the Pacific Northwest. In return, the American government gave up its claims to Texas.

Panic of 1819

But the Monroe administration had little time to revel in its diplomatic successes, for the nation was falling victim to a serious economic crisis: the panic of 1819. It followed a period of high foreign demand for american farm goods and thus exceptionally high prices for american farmers. The rising prices for farm goods had stimulated a land boom in the western United States. Fueled by speculative investments, land prices soared. The ability of easy credit to settlers and s[speculators from the government, from state banks and wildcat bank of the united states- fueled the land boom. Beginning in the 1819, however new management at the national bank began tightening credit, calling in loans and foreclosing montages. This precipitated a serious of failures by state banks, and result was a financial panic, which many americans particularly those in the west, blamed on the national bank. This began a process that would eventually make a bank's existence one of the nation's most burning political issues. Six years of depression followed.

...In conclusion.

*first mayor financial panic since the Constitution had been ratified

*fractured Era of Good Feeling

*caused by BUS which had tightened credit in a belated effort to control inflation.

*many state bank closed

*money deflated

*large increases of unemployment, bankruptcies, and imprisonment for dept

* although every section was hurt the west was hurt severely

*land speculations based on postwar euphoria had placed many people in debt

*BUS foreclosed on large amounts of western farmland

*effects of the panic were nationalist believed were shaken

*in the west many voters' political outlooks changed

*now called for land reforms

*expressed long opposition to the BUS and debtors' Prison

Some Americans saw the Panic of 1819 and the widespread distress that followed as a warning that a rapid economic growth and territorial expansion would destabilize that nation and threaten its survival. But by 1820 most americans were irrevocably committed to the idea of growth and expansion. Public debate in the future would resolve less around whether growth was good or bad than around how to encourage and control it.

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