The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . FROM MONROE TO VAN BUREN. 269 CHAPTER XLV. FROM MONROE TO VAN BUREN.—RISE OF WHIGS A GREAT part of the expansion of the Union bythe admission of new States, described in the preced-ing chapter, took place in the presidency of JamesMonroe, who was chosen to that office in 1816. Mon-roe was born in Virginia in 1754. As soon as hehad graduated at William and Mary College, in ^1776, he joined the Revolutionary arm}. He dis-tinguished himself in several battles. He was min- ^ister to France and to Englan
The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . FROM MONROE TO VAN BUREN. 269 CHAPTER XLV. FROM MONROE TO VAN BUREN.—RISE OF WHIGS A GREAT part of the expansion of the Union bythe admission of new States, described in the preced-ing chapter, took place in the presidency of JamesMonroe, who was chosen to that office in 1816. Mon-roe was born in Virginia in 1754. As soon as hehad graduated at William and Mary College, in ^1776, he joined the Revolutionary arm}. He dis-tinguished himself in several battles. He was min- ^ister to France and to England, and was Secretaryof State when Madison was President. Monroe was aman of even temper, with very little party feelinsj, and Monroes presi- dency; the era of with the greatest desire to be just and to act wiselv. good was very popular, and his administration was called the era of good feeling. The Federal party beingby this time almost extinct, Monroe was re-elected in1820 without any opposing candidate. Next to the Missouri Compromise, of which we have Purchase of Fior- , . 1 ? 1 1 1 , , ?* from Spain, spoken m the precedmg chapter, the most remaikable ,8
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