USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1817 Monroe became the fifth president of the United States. This heralded the beginning of what became known as the “Era of Good Feelings” and a temporary end to the two-party system with the death of the Federalist Party. Monroe was the last of the Revolutionary generation to hold the presidency.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1816, James Monroe became president, inaugurating a period of one-party Republican rule, an “Era of Good Feelings, ” in which almost no Federalists won federal or state offices. In 1820, Monroe was re-elected almost unanimously.

Detailed explanation-3: -The good feelings, perhaps better termed complacency, were stimulated by two events of 1816, during the last year of the presidency of James Madison: the enactment of the first U.S. avowedly protective tariff and the establishment of the second National Bank.

Detailed explanation-4: -James Monroe was president during most of the Era of Good Feelings.