A | B |
James Monroe | Elected as the 5th President in 1816 |
Virginia | Home state of Monroe |
"Era of Good Feelings" | Period of time during Monroe's presidency |
Election of 1820 | Easy victory for Monroe because no one ran against him, thus the end of the Federalists Party |
John C. Calhoun | South Carolinian, Yale educated, and spoke for the South |
Daniel Webster | Massachusetts Senator who spoke for the North |
Henry Clay | Kentucky Senator who was a War Hawk that spoke for the West |
1811 | Charter for our 1st Bank of the U.S. ran out in this year |
1816 | year in which the 2nd Bank of the U.S. was chartered |
foreign competition | problem that faced America after the War of 1812 |
British manufacturers | they could make and sell goods more cheaply than the U.S. in the early 1800s |
dumping | British practice of selling goods cheaply to run others out of business |
New England businesses fail | result of British "dumping" policy |
protective tariff | American tax on foreign goods to protect their industries |
South protests American tariffs | responce to the South having to pay higher prices for foreign goods because the South had no industry |