The era of good feelings, was not quite an Era of good feelings, despite the numerous good things like the new, fast emerging feeling of Nationalism, and a considerable amount of tranquility and prosperity. Stephen Decatur, the man who conquered the menacing Barbary pirates even said, "Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be right; but our country, right or wrong!"(Doc. A) Although these things did actually happen during the era of good feelings, there were numerous things troubling the nation: The acute issues of the tariff, the bank of the United States, internal improvements, and the sale of public lands were dividing the people. Sectionalism was rearing its ugly head, and the conflict over slavery was beginning to crystallize.

First of all, the controversial issue of the Missouri compromise, and more importantly the issue of slavery rose. Sectional tensions, involving rivalry between the slave south and the free north over the control of the Missouri territory. Missouri, a territory, had applied for admission into the union as a slave state. But the House of representatives stymied the plans of missourians by passing the Tallmadge am

All in all, Sectionalism was alive and thriving during the era of good feelings and Nationalism was being slowly broken up. The issues of slavery, sectional, the tariff, and north south rivalry were covered up by the so-called era of good feelings and its so-called Nationalism. With all these facts hidden and boiling in the background the era of good feelings only hid the true problems and if you put your problems off to long they will come back to haunt you, which is exactly what happened when everything finally exploded and America went to war, with itself, and the civil war happened. A civil war that pitted brother against brother and split a nation.

Lastly, during the Monroe presidency there seemed to be a lot of tranquility due to the elimination of the federalists, and the emergence of the one party system. This one party system only masked the Sectionalism with its look of triumph and greatness, but it only looked this because it couldn't handle all the growing problems that they couldn't see, without an opposition always being there to remind them. It couldn't solve the slave problem or stop the rivalry between the north and the south. Henry clay proposed an answer to America with his American system but it would only cause more sectionalism and would later be vet

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