It's now is the fifth day in my ongoing series of threads for each president in honor of the 250th anniversary of the USA's independence.Today is James Monroe (4/28/1758 - 7/4/1831), who served two terms from 1817 - 1824. He was the last president to be a founding father, and ran unopposed in 1820. Notable actions or events during his presidency include the Rush-Bagot Treaty, the 1824 Russo-American Treaty, the Acquisition of Florida and the Seminole Wars, the Monroe Doctrine (duh), the Missouri Compromise, Gibbons v. Ogden, and the Panic of 1819. What do you think of the last Founding Father president?
>>18493288Competent but boring filler president mostly remembered for his unopposed reelection in 1820.
>>18493288Imagine if his Liberia project had gone more successfully. God bros, why did it not work?
>>18493384Wasn’t really his idea though, he just endorsed it.It failed because the returning slaves had a different culture to the natives, mostly having never set foot in Africa before, so they had to fight for their survival. They adopted slavery, got lands taken by France, and in general have just had a hard time because they weren’t properly equipped to become a thriving colony
Monroe oversaw the nation's first major economic depression when the economy crashed in 1819 as the post-War of 1812 speculation bubble burst. He is also the only president to be reelected to a second term during an economic downturn.
>The battles over internal improvements continued during Monroe's administration as Federalists continued to argue that the government had the authority to carry out infrastructure programs for the public benefit. Democratic-Republicans disagreed and argued that they required the consent of the state the infrastructure program was being constructed in--a few extreme states rights partisans maintained that the states alone could build roads and whatnot. Monroe himself said he would accept Federal internal improvements if the Constitution was amended to allow it, but he believed it did not presently do so. Federalist Congressmen disagreed and continued to insist they already had that authority. In response, Monroe penned a lengthy essay defending his position.[9]
>The First Party System was ending as the 1820s began and the Federalist Party faded away. A complex series of realignments over the decade led to the Second Party System, lasting from 1828 to 1856, in which most of the former Democratic-Republican coalition became the Democrat Party and the Whig Party arose to comprise most former Federalists and some dissident Democrats.
>>18492205>>18493288James Monroe's colossal noseWas bigger than Pinocchio's
>>18493384Is he the only US president to have a city named after them that isn't in the states themselves?
>>18494244President Hayes has a province named after him in Paraguay for helping to stop the Paraguay War
>>18494244there's a city named after Kennedy in Brazil
