March 4, 1817 - March 4, 1825

Characteristic: Efficient

In his presidency, Monroe banned Europe from the Americas and (temporarily) solved the issue of slavery.

James Monroe

Era of Good Feelings - During both of Monroe's presidential terms, there was very little political partisan, mainly because there was only one party in office, the Democratic Republican Party. There was still some tension caused by slavery which was temporarily solved by the Missouri Compromise, and the "era" ended at the time of The Corrupt Bargain.

The Monroe Doctrine - in December of 1823, current president James Monroe declared that the United States would not tolerate a European nation colonizing an independent nation in North or South America through the Monroe Doctrine, He warned that any intervention into the Western Hemisphere to be a hostile act. This was brought up due to the fact that they would worried that Spain would try to take back its former colonies.

The Missouri Compromise - The Missouri compromise was Congress trying to find out if the they should let new territories admitted as states into the union have slavery legal. This was the first attempt ti fix the issue of slavery. It also stated that no state entering the union above Missouri's southern border could enter as a slave state, so no more states in the Louisiana Territory could be slave states, the it was repeals in 1854.