1. Era of Good Feelings
Unit 3.5

2. Everything good? Era of Good Feelings good side Bad things:
Nationalism
Optimism
Development of “American”
Bad things:
Panic of 1819
Missouri Compromise
Factions within the Democratic-Republicans
Sectionalism

3. Education, Art, Culture - American
Republican Mother idea – children should be raised with civic values and republican/American values
Shown in books and art:
Mercy Otis Warren – History of the Revolution
Noah Webster – spelling book/dictionary
Gilbert Stuart’s paintings
Patriotic themes and stories.
1826 – 50 year anniversary of Declaration

4. American Literature and Sport
Washington Irving – wrote in “American” style
Rip Van Winkle, Ichabod Crane
James Fenimore Cooper – historical romance style
Leatherstocking Tales (such as The Last of the Mohicans)
First American novelist “accepted” by Europeans
Horseracing
#1 Sport
Alcohol in culture. Why?

5. WAKE UP AGAIN! 2nd Great Awakening
Revivalism
Camp Meetings
Cane Ridge (Kentucky)
Charles Finney
Growth of Baptist, Presbyterians, and Methodists
Middle Class
Deism in early 1800s
Jefferson’s Bible
Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason

6. Fur
On the Frontier, mountain men such as Jedediah Smith explored and learned Indian trails in the west.
Stories of the frontiersmen glorified the adventures.
Increased our desire for more land (Manifest Destiny)
John Jacob Astor – fur trading company controlled the market from the Great Lakes to now Oregon.

7. Transportation Revolution
Improvement on Clipper Ships
Whaling Ships and Whaling Industry
Why Whales?
African-American influence
Roads
Cumberland (National) Road (connected Ohio River and Potomac)
Turnpikes
Roads helped link towns and cities and spread our Market Economy
Canals
Erie Canal
Flatboats
Steamboats
Robert Fulton’s Clermont (1807)
What’s the change?

9. Time to industrialize 1st Industrial Revolution
Change hand tools and craft shops to machines and factories
Started in the textile industry
Samuel Slater – first factory in U.S. (Memorized plans from Britain)
Eli Whitney – idea of interchangeable parts
Mass production in North
Cotton gin invention in the south

10. Women at Work Lowell System – Textile Factories in Massachusetts
Why in New England?
Francis Cabot Lowell developed a better power loom
Factory town using young women – Lowell Mill Girls
Why use girls?
How were they treated?
What would change in the future?
Source for some of the first unions and women’s rights movement

11. We haven’t had a Clay slide yet, so…
Internal Improvements (today we call it Infrastructure)
Trying to connect the “Old Northwest” to New England
Resources and agricultural products for factory products
Part of Henry Clay’s American System idea to strengthen the U.S. Economy
Turnpikes, Roads, and Canals
Madison would veto an Internal Improvement Bill
How does that fit into the Democratic-Republican idea?

12. So what’s happening in the South
Why are they not building roads and Canal in South?
Natural Rivers
King Cotton emerges and the Peculiar Institution
Dominated by Aristocratic Planter class

13. Sectionalism Sectionalism develops after the War of 1812
The Old Northwest and New England become more reliant on each other in the North.
Issues besides slavery that will divide them
Tariff
Internal improvements
B.U.S.
Seen in Missouri Compromise

14. Democracy Expanded Alexis de Tocqueville (French) wrote
Democracy in America
Told about changes in America such as mobility and democracy
Equality in society (egalitarian)
During the 1820s and 1830s voting rules would expand to allow more males the right to votes as property requirements were removed (Universal Male Suffrage)
Would change the way elections were conducted in order to appeal more to the common man.

15. End of the Good Feelings
Election of 1824
Four Candidates get electoral votes
Andrew Jackson 94
John Quincy Adams 84
William Crawford 41
Henry Clay 37
Since no one had a majority in the Electoral College, the House of Representatives decides the winner.

16. Corruption!
House chooses John Quincy Adams after Clay has his supporters shift their votes to him.
Adams makes Henry Clay the Sec. of State.
What is significant about that position?
Jackson claims there was a Corrupt Bargain between them.
He would spend the next 4 years campaigning for the Presidency.

17. Reflection Questions
How could you say that Eli Whitney caused the Civil War, but also is responsible for the North winning?
How did the Transportation Revolution with Turnpikes and Canals help to link the Old Northwest with New England and their Industrial Revolution?
In what ways was the Era of Good Feelings a great time to live in the United States and in what way was it not so good?
What happened in the 1824 election to make Jackson yell corruption?

18. Links
– expansion of US
- project
– review video
– review video
– Era of Good Feelings lesson