Sectionalism vs. Nationalism
It could be said that both Sectionalism and nationalism increased during the Era of Good Feelings. However, the Era of Good Feelings was, to a certain degree, misnamed. By the 1820's an "Era of Inflamed Feelings" was beginning to undermine the Era of Good Feelings. Political giants were fighting for power and promoting the clashing economic interests of their relevant sections. In 1820 these feelings of sectionalism became painfully obvious. Missouri, wanting to enter the country as a slave state was denied that right, due to the fact that many northern congressmen did not want slavery to flourish in the virgin lands of the west. Sectionalism had reached a high point in the, "Era of Good Feelings", and no one was terribly interested in the good of the "entire" country. The Missouri compromise was the obvious beginning of the problem of sectionalism. When Missouri wanted to enter the union as a slave state, those opposing slavery were distressed. If Missouri were to become a slave state, the slave states would have the advantage in congress, twelve slave states opposed to the eleven free states. The temporary solution to this problem was the Missouri compromise. The Missouri compromise allowed Missouri to become a slave state, b
The country was in terrible disunity. In 1816 the protective tariff was put into effect. However, Calhoun flip-flopped positions. The slaves cleared the land needed for growing the cotton, then picked the cotton. Although the tariff was strictly meant to support the infant industries of the North, some sections in the South voted against this tariff. He believed they would have a positive influence on the states that had not yet abolished slavery. Many people saw this compromise only as a provisional solution to the problem between the slave states and the free states. " (Thomas Jefferson, Letter to congressman John Holmes of Massachusetts, April 22, 1820. Adams believed it would have been wiser and bolder to persist in the restriction of Missouri as a slave state, until a new group of non-slave states had formed. Although the appearance of party unity in Monroe's presidency masked sectional division, it was still a major problem. The North and the South had developed two completely different forms of income. The South was nationalistic for the South, and the North for the North. In the election of 1824 no one candidate had a clear cut victory, the, "winner", Jackson, only had forty two percent of the popular vote.
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