Era of Good Feelings Blogger Project (HG, JM, BP, NK, AP)
Saturday, February 22, 2014
SECTIONALISM
Thursday, February 20, 2014
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Monday, February 17, 2014
FOREIGN RELATIONS
After the War of 1812, many treaties were established. One of them included the Rush-Bagot Treaty, which was signed between the US Secretary Charles Bagot and British Minister Richard Rush, and it limited ships on the Great Lake and agreed not to build more war ships. One problem the US faced was that the Seminole Indians and Georgian residents were fighting in Spanish Florida, and the Spanish were too busy to control them. Jackson was sent to Spanish Florida to deal with the Seminole Indians, but against his orders, he fought the First Seminole War by marching into Florida and capturing the Pensacola and St. Marks. Following this, John Quincy Adams talked to Do Luis de Onis and got Spain to agree to the Adam-Onis Treaty. It gave the US Spanish Florida, allowed Spain to renounce its claim to the Oregon Territory, and the US gave up its claim to a portion of the Texas territory it received during the Louisiana Purchase. Lastly, a big agreement was the Monroe Doctrine. After the US and Britain agreed that Europe's involvement in the Western Hemisphere would mess up trade after Spain tried to create a democracy, which disrupted European peace, John Quincy Adams wrote a speech for James Monroe that stated that Europe would not get involved in the Western Hemisphere. America was no longer open to European colonization and Europe could not create any new colonies, and independent nations in Latin American would be left alone.
NATIONALISM
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