Era of Good Feelings

Examples of Era of Good Feelings in the following topics:

• The "Era of Good Feelings"

  • The "Era of Good Feelings" marked a period that reflected a sense of national purpose and a desire for unity at the end of the War of 1812.
  • The "Era of Good Feelings" began in 1815 in the mood of victory that swept the nation at the end of the War of 1812.
  • Perhaps Monroe's countrywide goodwill tours in 1817 and 1819 were the greatest expression of the "Era of Good Feelings."
  • Here, the descriptive phrase "Era of Good Feelings" was bestowed by a local Federalist journal by journalist Benjamin Russell.
  • Russell, pictured above, coined the term "Era of Good Feelings" during Monroe's goodwill tour in 1817.

• The Election of 1816 and the Monroe Presidency

  • The U.S. presidential election of 1816 resulted in an easy win for James Monroe and ushered in the "Era of Good Feelings."
  • The U.S. presidential election of 1816 came at the end of the two-term presidency of Democratic-Republican, James Madison.
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  • Monroe largely ignored old party lines in making appointments to lower posts, which reduced political tensions and engendered an "Era of Good Feelings" that lasted throughout his administration.
  • Frequent stops on these tours allowed innumerable ceremonies of welcome and expressions of good will.

• The Panic of 1819

  • The Panic of 1819 was the first major financial crisis in the United States and occurred during the political calm of the "Era of Good Feelings."
  • The Panic of 1819 was the first major financial crisis in the United States and occurred during the political calm of the "Era of Good Feelings."
  • As loans increased, paper money from new state banks flooded the country, creating inflation that drove the price of land and goods still higher.
  • Prices had already begun falling in 1815 at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, when Britain began to “dump” its surplus manufactured good (the result of wartime overproduction), in American ports, where they were sold for low prices and competed with American-manufactured goods.
  • This dramatic decrease in the value of agricultural goods left farmers unable to pay their debts.

• Economic Booms and Busts

  • The U.S. government borrowed heavily to finance the War of 1812, which caused tremendous strain on the banks' reserves of specie (gold and silver) leading to a suspension of specie payments in 1814.
  • The suspension of the obligation to back transactions with hard currency spurred the establishment of new banks and the expansion of bank note issues .
  • The Panic of 1819 was the first major financial crisis in the United States, and occurred during the political calm of the Era of Good Feelings.
  • In 1837, the nation once again faced a financial crisis as a result of the speculative fever of the Market Revolution, known as the Panic of 1837.
  • The widespread use of bank notes contributed to the economic crises of 1819 and 1837.

• Political Parties from 1800–1824

  • Rising out of the Federalist v.
  • The Federalists promoted the financial system of Treasury Secretary Hamilton, which emphasized federal assumption of state debts, a tariff to pay off those debts, a national bank to facilitate financing, and encouragement of banking and manufacturing.
  • The Jay Treaty of 1794 marked the decisive mobilization of the two parties and their supporters in every state.
  • The First Party System ended during the Era of Good Feelings (1816–1824), as the Federalists shrank to a few isolated strongholds and the Republicans lost unity.
  • Washington (in heaven) tells partisans to keep the pillars of Federalism, Republicanism and Democracy

• The British Strategy

  • Throughout the war, the British Secretary of State for War and the Colonies was the Earl of Bathurst.
  • A decisive use of naval power came on the Great Lakes and depended on a contest of building ships.
  • After two years of warfare, the major causes of the war had disappeared.
  • The war fostered a spirit of national unity and an "Era of Good Feelings" in the U.S. and in Canada.
  • It opened a long era of peaceful relations between the United States and the British Empire.

• Industrial Cities

  • During the industrial era, cities grew rapidly and became centers of population growth and production.
  • During the industrial era, cities grew rapidly and became centers of population and production.
  • Since the industrial era, that figure, as of the beginning of the 21st century, has risen to nearly 50%.
  • The United States provides a good example of how this process unfolded; from 1860 to 1910, the invention of railroads reduced transportation costs and large manufacturing centers began to emerge in the United States, allowing migration from rural to urban areas.
  • Rapid growth brought urban problems, and industrial-era cities were rife with dangers to health and safety.

• Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

  • Their activities are regulated by common mores or beliefs about the appropriate behavior and responsibilities of members of the association.
  • These associations are marked by what Tönnies called "unity of will. " He saw the family as the most perfect expression of Gemeinschaft; however, he also expected that Gemeinschaft could be based on shared place and shared belief as well as kinship, and included globally dispersed religious communities as possible examples of Gemeinschaft.
  • In such societies, there is less of a need to enforce social control externally due to a collective sense of loyalty individuals feel for society.
  • A modern business is a good example of Gesellschaft: the workers, managers, and owners may have very little in terms of shared orientations or beliefs, or they may not care deeply for the product they are making, but it is in all their self interest to come to work to make money, and, therefore, the business continues.
  • For instance, during the social upheavals of the Reconstruction era in the United States, former slaves, whose kinship ties were forcibly disrupted under slavery, forged new communities that shared aspects of both Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft.

• Painting in the Romantic Period

  • The key generation of French Romantics born between 1795–1805, in the words of Alfred de Vigny, had been "conceived between battles, attended school to the rolling of drums".
  • Théodore Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa of 1821 remains the greatest achievement of the Romantic history painting, which in its day had a powerful anti-government message.
  • He described himself as a "conservator of good doctrine, and not an innovator. " Nevertheless, modern opinion has tended to regard Ingres and the other Neoclassicists of his era as embodying the Romantic spirit of his time, while his expressive distortions of form and space make him an important precursor of modern art.
  • However, more than any other artist of the period, Goya exemplified the Romantic expression of the artist's feelings and his personal imaginative world.
  • This painting is regarded as one of the greatest Romantic era paintings.

• Abnormal Psychology

  • Although consensus can be difficult, it is important for mental-health professionals to agree on what kinds of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors constitute the presence of a psychological disorder.
  • However, consider the nervousness someone feels when talking to a person they are attracted to or the loneliness and longing for home a freshman might experience during their first semester of college—these feelings may not be regularly present, but they fall in a range most would consider normal.
  • So, what kinds of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors represent a true psychological disorder?
  • Such feelings would be normal.
  • It is also important to recognize that cultural norms change over time: what might be considered typical in a society at one time may no longer be viewed that way later—similar to how fashion trends from one era may elicit quizzical looks decades later.