Election of 1816

• Monroe

• Rufus King?

• Last of the Virginia Dynasty

• Era of Good Feeling

• Read-Year without a summer

Nationalism

• New BUS

– 20 year charter

– $35 million

• Tariff of 1816

– Calhoun-YES

– Webster-NO

• Transportation has to improve!

American System

I have another idea!

• Calhoun

• Bonus Bill

– $ from the BUS used toward building roads

• Madison says NO!

New American Literature

• Washington Irving

– Father of American short story

– “Rip van Winkle

– Ichobod Crane in “The Headless Horseman”

• James Fenimore Cooper

• First American Writer to be internationally acclaimed

• The Last of the Mohicans

Treaties to take care of loose ends!

• Rush-Bagot

– demilitarized the Great Lakes

• Treaty of 1818

– 49^th Parallel to the Lake of the Woods

– Gave fishing rights off Labrador and Newfoundland

– Provided for joint occupation of the Oregon Territory by the United States and Great Britain for a ten-year renewable period

Panic of 1819

• First of many

• Every 20 years

• Over in about 18-24 months

• Caused by

– Over speculation of Western lands

– Money problem

– European economic problems

• AMERICA BLAMED THE BUS!

John Marshall

• Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

• Did more to advance the belief that the central government has power over the state governments

Nationalism in the Court!

• McCullough v Maryland

• Cohens v Virginia

• Gibbons v. Ogden

• Fletcher v Peck

• Dartmouth College v Woodward READ

Missouri wants to be a state!

A SLAVE State!

• 2^nd state of the Louisiana Purchase

• Would have upset the balance in the Senate

• 11 slave-11 free

• Civil War?

How do we stop this?

Road to Statehood

Thank Goodness for Clay!

• Henry Clay

• Missouri Compromise

Road to Statehood

The Missouri Compromise

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