A history of the American nation . progress and for national upbuilding.^ TheFederalists, withering under the reproach of the Hartford Con-vention, soon ceased to play an important part and ere longaltogether disappeared as a 1816 Monroe was chosen Presi-dent by an overwhelming vote,the Federalists carrying only Mas-sachusetts, Connecticut, and Dela-ware. Four years later he wasagain elected,- this time with onlyone electoral vote against eight or ten years after thewar, free from the absence of bitterparty strife, are commonly calledthe era of good feeling. Peoplenow meet i
A history of the American nation . progress and for national upbuilding.^ TheFederalists, withering under the reproach of the Hartford Con-vention, soon ceased to play an important part and ere longaltogether disappeared as a 1816 Monroe was chosen Presi-dent by an overwhelming vote,the Federalists carrying only Mas-sachusetts, Connecticut, and Dela-ware. Four years later he wasagain elected,- this time with onlyone electoral vote against eight or ten years after thewar, free from the absence of bitterparty strife, are commonly calledthe era of good feeling. Peoplenow meet in the same room,said a newspaper in 1817, who ashort while since would scarcelypass each other along the street. Even before Madisons administration ended Congressentered upon the work of legislation to meet new of all was the task of bettering the monetaryand financial condition of the country. All duringthe war there had been great confusion; financialdisorder reigned.^ Congress had refused in 1811 to recharter. A new nationalbank, 1816. ^ There should now be no differences of parties, said Josiah Quincy,**for the Republicans have out-federalized Federalism. With the Repub-licans advocating a bank, tariff, the building and maintenance of ships ofwar, there was nothing left for the Federalists, who had long been only aparty of opposition, save to find fault and to cling to their old suspicion ofthe political competence of the masses of the people; such fault-findingwas. however, out of place, when the country was entering with enthusi-asm and hopefulness on a career of industrial development. 2 Monroes cabinet was composed of able men; John Quincy Adamswas Secretary of State; William H. Crawford of Georgia, Secretary of theTreasury; John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War. 2 Among the severest trials of the war was the deficiency of adequatefunds to sustain it, and the progressive degradation of the national currency soon fell into frightful disorder. Ban
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