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the election resulted in a landslide victory for Republican candidate James Monroe of Virginia.He defeated Rufus King, the Federalist candidate, by 183 to 34 electoral votes
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Most British goods had been kept out of the U.S by the embargo Act and the war of 1812
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President Monroe made a goodwill Circuit of the middle and northern sections of the country. He was warmly greeted in Connecticut and Massachusetts, the only states that had not voted for him in 1816
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the court protected the second Bank of the U.S. The case grew out of attempt by the state of Maryland to put a tax on the branch of the bank operating in that state.
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while Monroe was in Boston, a local newspaper described the new sense of national unity as the "Era of Good Feelings." The name stuck and was used to describe Monroe's two terms in office. When he ran for reelection in 1820, no candidate opposed him
