Unit2 Lesson2

Question 1

Who is Fifth President?

Answer 1

• End of the War of 1812 led to the Era of Good Feelings
• Only one political party so relatively peaceful
• James Monroe won Election of 1816 and became the 5th President of the United States (1817-1825).

Question 2

What is Rush-Bagot Agreement (Settling Disputes 1817) ?

Answer 2

• Both the United States and Great Britan wanted to keep their naval and fishing rights on the Great Lakes.
• This compromise limited both the United States and Great Britain’s naval power on the Great Lakes.

Question 3

What is Convention of 1818?

Answer 3

• Set the border between the United States and British Canada at 49 degrees latitude
• US earned fishing rights off of Newfoundland, British Canada
• Both countries agreed to occupy the Oregon Territory

Question 4

What is Adam-Onis Treaty 1819?

Answer 4

• US disputed southern border with Spanish Florida
• General Andrew Jackson invaded Florida starting a war with the Sminole Indians.
• Spain ceded to the United States the eastern portion of Florida
• New boundary establised

Question 5

What is Crises of 1819?

Answer 5

• Panic of 1819: the first widespread financial crisis in the US that slowed expansion, foreclosed homes, failed banks, and increased unemployment.
• Missouri Crisis: the conflict that followed Missouri’s application for statehood.

Question 6

Balance of States

Answer 6

• Sectionalism: regional politics and goals become more important than national ones.
• Industrial North vs Agrarian South
• Proposal to make importation of enslaved illegal and free slaves after 25 years of age: furiously opposed by Southerners.