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Title: The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Foster, Ellsworth D., ed Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin), 1846-1935
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago, Ralph Durham Co.
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riff of 1824IV. iNTERNAii Affairs (1) Westward expansion (2) Visit of Lafayette (3) Crisis of 1818 and depression (4) Northwest fur trade (5) Election of 1824 (a) Candidates (b) End of caucus system of nominating(e) Election by the House Questions on Monroe Give a short account of Monroes careerbefore he became President. What general conditions were responsi-ble for the era of good feeling? Name the five states admitted to theUnion during Monroes adminstration. From whom was Florida purchased? Why was that nation so willing to dis-pose of the territory? Why did the United States desire* theacquisition of Florida? What were the causes of the MissouriCompromise ? Who were the leaders on both sides ofthe question? What were the immediate results of itsadoption ? What is meant by the Monroe doctrine? Why did Monroe make such a state-ment of principles? Did its publication have the intendedeffect? AVhat was the Holy Alliance and whatwere its objects ? What was the American System? J ^ m o
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MONROE 2394 MONROE rated nation that entered upon the era ofpeace. The victories of the American navyhad gained for the United States the respectof European nations, and the time was pastwhen American rights could be treated withcontempt. Moreover, Monroes administra-tions were in a political sense an era of goodfeeling. Because of their unpatriotic at-titude during the War of 1812 the Federal-ists lost all semblance of power, and theparty as such passed out of existence.Theoretically there was but one party, theDemocratic-Eepublican, eoon to be knownsimply as Democratic. New issues, however,were coming to the front, and the era of goodfeeling was only superficially harmonious. One of the questions that was being de-bated was the right of the government toappropriate money for public improvements,such as highways and canals. Henry Claywas the eloquent advocate of this right, andin the next administration he and his fol-lowers formed a new party known as Na-tional Republican. Monroe in

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