STUDY GUIDE 4G: ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS

NAME: _____________________________

DIRECTIONS: Read American Pageant, Chapter 12, pages 241-245,248-255.
Answer the following questions.

1. According to the Columbian Centinel, what defines the period known as the

"Era of Good Feelings"? __________________________________________________

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2. What issues disturbed the peace of this era? _____________________________

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3. When did the Era begin to end? ___________________________________________

4. What was the major cause of this economic downturn? ______________________

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5. What actions taken by the National Bank during this period earned that

institution the hatred of westerners? ____________________________________

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6. What does the text cite as the cradle of Jacksonian Democracy? ___________

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7. An outcry against what legal practice led to its eventual end? ___________

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8. What items fueled the westward expansion movement? _______________________

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9. What three things did westerners demand? _________________________________

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10. What legislation answered the westerners demand for cheap land? _________

_____________ What did it do? ___________________________________________

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** The foreign slave trade had been closed after January 1, 1808. **

11. In what category did Missouri wish to enter the Union in 1819? __________

12. What did the Tallmadge Amendment say? ___________________________________

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13. Why did the Tallmadge Amendment, passed by the House of Representatives,

not become law? _________________________________________________________

14. Why did Southerners want to maintain a balance of slave and free states

in the Senate? __________________________________________________________

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15. Missouri was the first state carved out of what region? _________________

16. Who proposed and what were the provisions of the Missouri Compromise?

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17. What two presidents viewed the Missouri question as a warning of

future difficulty? ______________________________________________________

18. What distinction did James Monroe have in the 1820 election? ____________

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19. Discuss the case of McCulloch v Maryland (1819). ________________________

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20. What principle was established in Cohens v Virginia (1821)? _____________

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21. What principle was established in Gibbons v Ogden (1824)? _______________

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22. What principle was established in Fletcher v Peck (1810)? _______________

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23. What principle was established in Dartmouth College v Woodward (1819)?

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24. Who represented Dartmouth at this trial? ________________________________

25. Who was Monroe's Secretary of State? ____________________________________

** RUSH-BAGOT TREATY April, 1817: limited naval forces on the Great Lakes.
This led to the demilitarization of the U.S.-Canadian border.**

26. What did the Treaty of 1818 do? _________________________________________

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27. Discuss the progression of U.S. ownership of Florida. ___________________

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** ADAMS-ONIS TREATY (Transcontinental Treaty): Included Florida Purchase
   Treaty, set western boundary of Louisiana Territory, and the U.S.assumed
   $5 million worth of claims by American citizens against Spain and gave up
   its claim to Texas. **

** In 1822 the U.S. became the first nation outside Latin America to
recognize the new states.**

28. What European actions provoked the Monroe Doctrine? _____________________

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29. Explain the Russian "scare" of 1821. ____________________________________

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30. Why did Britain support the liberty of former American colonies? ________

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31. What offer did British foreign secretary George Canning make in 1823? ___

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32. What did Secretary Adams believe the hidden British agenda to be? _______

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33. Why did Adams believe that even without an agreement the British navy

would protect the Americas? _____________________________________________

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34. Whose ideas are found in the Monroe Doctrine? ___________________________

** MONROE DOCTRINE December 2, 1823: The Monroe Doctrine became the basis
of American policy in the Western Hemisphere.

1. Monroe called for noncolonization of the western hemisphere by
European nations.

2. Monroe demanded nonintervention by Europe in the affairs of
independent New World nations.

3. Monroe pledged noninterference by the U.S. in European affairs
including those of Europe's existing New World colonies.**

35. What was the primary concern of the U.S. in issuing the Monroe Doctrine?

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36. When did the Monroe Doctrine become "an important national dogma"?_______

37. What did the Russo-American Treaty of 1824 do? __________________________

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38. What three "isms" were implicit in the Monroe Doctrine? _________________

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