CHAPTER 12 SECTION 4

“Strains on National Unity”

Era of Good Feelings

Federalists didn’t support the War 1812 Americans turn away from them

Wherever Monroe goes he’s greeted by thousands

So may New Englanders greet him Boston reports the beginning of “an Era of Good

Feelings”’

Monroe reelected in 1820

The Panic of 1819

Financial panic Crop prices overseas drop dramatically American farmers can’t pay their debts People lose their homes, farms, ad businesses

Ex. - Cotton which soared up to 33 cents per lb. fell to 14 cents per lb

Bank response – take over the property of borrowers who couldn’t pay their debt

Expansion of Slavery

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 Set-up steps for

forming new states Banned slavery in

the Northwest Territory

Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois were “free-state” Free state – state

where slavery is not permitted

Expansion of Slavery

New states south of the Northwest Territory -Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama allowed slavery

1819 Missouri requested to join the Union as a slave state

Missouri Compromise 1820

Missouri’s request divides the nation between north and south

Henry Clay fears sectionalism would tear the nation

Sectionalism-devotion to interests of one’s own section over those of the nation as a whole.

Missouri Compromise1820

Clay convinced Congress to pass the Missouri Compromise in 1820

Missouri joins as a slave stateMaine joins as freeBanned slavery in the Louisiana Purchase

north of latitude 36 degrees 30’ South – slavery was permitted

Missouri Compromise 1820