Rhodes,  J.  F.,  History  of  the  United  States,  I,  ch.  IV.
Turner,  F.  J.,  Rise  of  the  New  West  (American  Nation  Series),  chs.
V-VIII.
304  THE    RISE    OF   AMERICAN   NATIONALITY

SPECIAL   TOPICS   FOR   TEACHERS

1.  The  Westward  Movement.  Bogart,  E.  L.,  Economic  History
of  the  United  States,  ch.  XIV  ;  Callender,  G.  S.,  Economic  History
of  the  United  States,  ch.  XII.
REFERENCES   FOR   PUPILS

Barstow,  C.  L.,  The  Westward  Movement,  pp.  3-60.
Faris,  J.  T.,  Real  Stories  from  Our  History,  chs.   XIV- XV,  XVII-

XIX.
Nicolay,  Helen,  Our  Nation  in  the  Building,  ch.  VI.
Paxson,  F.  L.,  The  Last  American  Frontier,  chs.  I-IV.
SPECIAL   TOPICS  FOR  PUPILS

1.  Boyhood  of  Lincoln.  Barstow,  C.  L.,  A  New  Nation,  pp.  166-
180  ;  Gordy,  W.  F.,  Abraham  Lincoln,  ch.  I  ;  Morgan,  J.,  Abraham
Lincoln,  The  Boy  and  the  Man,  chs.  I-V.
2.  Life  on  the  Western  Frontier.  Great  Epochs  in  American  His-
tory, V,  pp.  154-157  ;  Griffis,  W.  E.,  The  Romance  of  Conquest,
ch.  VII  ;  Wright,  H.  C.,  American  Progress,  ch.  I.
CHAPTER  XXIV


THE   MONROE   DOCTRINE   AND   THE    MISSOURI
COMPROMISE

The  Era  of  Good  Feeling.  In  March,  1817,  Madison  was
succeeded  as  chief  executive  by  his  Secretary  of  State,  James
Monroe,  the  fourth  distinguished  Virginian  chosen  to  that
high  office.  Following  sixteen  years  of  bitter  political  strife,  now
came  a  period  of  calm.  The
Federalist  party  cast  only
thirty-four  electoral  votes
against  Monroe  in  1816 ;
while  four  years  later,  party
opposition  disappeared  com-
pletely, and  Monroe  re-
ceived every  electoral  vote
save  one.  It  seemed  to  be
an  "  Era  of  Good  Feeling,"
as  the  Boston  Centinel  said  ;
and  by  this  name  Monroe's
administration  has  ever
since  been  known.
