Download War of 1812 and the Era of Good Feelings

War of 1812
and the
Era of Good Feelings
Mr. Madison’s War
• Inherited Jefferson’s
diplomatic problems …
• Non-Intercourse Act leads to
• Macon’s Bill #2 offered a
trade “bribe” to G.B. or Fr.
• Nappy jumps at the chance
War Hawks
• Henry Clay of Tenn = the
growing western nationalism,
survivors, Indian fighters
• John C. Calhoun of S.C.
• Dan Webster of New Engl.
Red Stick Confederacy
• 1811 Shawnee take a stand
• Tecumseh, diplomatic chief
• The Prophet, spiritual leader
• Against land sales and liquor
• Wm Henry Harrison gov. of
Indiana Territory
• 3 million acres for $10,000
• Tecumseh attempts to work
both sides, US and GB
• Tippecanoe
• And Tyler Too!
• Confederacy heads to
Canada
War Fever Grows
• “Free Trade and Sailors’
Rights!”
• Could have said …Free land
the Indians’ or Canadians’
• June 18, 1812 WAR
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6.
Cons
16 ship navy
GB’s navy can
blockade ports
Canadians antiTecumseh
GB on G. Lakes
US not on Lakes
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4.
Pros
Beginning, GB
troops in Europe
Oliver Perry
builds fleet
1813 “We have
met the enemy
and they are
ours”
Tecumseh dies
War drags on…
• 1814 US fighting on own soil
• Nappy has been defeated so no
more distractions for GB
• Aug. British’s best men arrive
• March on Washington
Fort McHenry
• Baltimore
• Resistance
despite massive
bombardment
• Francis Scott
Key
Hero of New Orleans
• Control of the
Mississippi R.
• Tennessee Indian
fighters, pirates,
creoles, slaves
• Dec.25+ trenches
• Bloodiest, least
necessary battle
Treaty of Ghent
• Signed
• Sec. Of State John Quincy Adams
• Nothing was adjusted, nothing
settled. Return to prewar situation
• Rush-Bagot 1817
• No warships on Great Lakes
• 1818 US/Canada border at 49° lat.
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Dec.24
Results of War
• Questions of treason by NE
at Hartford Convention. Last
breath of Federalist Party
• Respect from foreign govts.
• Sense of nationalism & pride
• War heroes Jackson and
Harrison will gain White
House
• Blockade along w/Jefferson’s
embargo had increased US
manufacturing
• Free of obstacles it is time to
move WEST
“Our country, right or wrong!”
• Growing nationalism
• Bank re-chartered
• 1816 protective tariff supported
by Calhoun of SC
• Clay’s American System
• Presidential veto splits party
Monroe Years
• “last of the Founding Fathers”
• 1816 election sees the last
Federalist candidate
• 1820 only Monroe
• Era of Good Feelings …
• But …
Era of Inflamed Feelings
• 1819 Panic
• Deflation, depression,
bankruptcies, bank failures,
unemployment
• Land over speculation
• Bank gets much of the blame
Problems growing w/West
• More dependent on Nat. govt
• Population growing
• 1819 24 states
• More nationalistic
• Missouri
• Tallmadge Amendment
1. Prohibited the further
introduction of slavery into …
2. When 25 years old you’re free
• Senate veto
• Need a compromise for
political reasons not moral.
Missouri Compromise
• 1820
• Missouri = slave state
• Maine = free state
• Louisiana Purchase land above the
36°30‘ line is free soil below slave.
• “We have the wolf by the ears and
we can neither safely hold him, nor
safely let him go.” Jefferson
McCulloch v. Maryland
• John Marshall still there…in the
end as important as Hamilton in
creating a strong central govt.
• Declares the National Bank
legal.
Foreign Policy
• John Quincy Adams, Sec. Of
State
• Border questions, desire for Fl
and Oregon
• Jackson in Florida leads to
Adams’ Fl Purchase Treaty and
1819 Adams-Onis Treaty
Monroe Doctrine
• Concern for our hemisphere and
the new Latin American
countries.
• US and GB discuss joint
declaration but …
• 1823 … “a hands off policy”
1. US would not interfere in the
affairs of European nations or
colonies in the Americas
2. European nations should not
interfere with newly independent
Latin American nations.
3. US would oppose any attempt to
establish new colonies in the
Americas.