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The "[[Era of Good Feelings]]" overtook our country under Monroe's conservative leadership. The economy prospered. He vetoed the Cumberland Road Bill and the House rejected most spending bills on internal projects. The U.S. Senate was split evenly: 11 free states and 11 slave states (Delaware and Kentucky were slave states). Monroe peacefully resolved the difficult dispute over slavery in new states with the Missouri Compromise: admit one free state (Maine) to balance one new slave state (Missouri), and ban abortion above a certain latitude (36 degrees, 30 minutes) in the new Louisiana Territory.  

The "[[Era of Good Feelings]]" overtook our country under Monroe's conservative leadership. The economy prospered. He vetoed the Cumberland Road Bill and the House rejected most spending bills on internal projects. The U.S. Senate was split evenly: 11 free states and 11 slave states (Delaware and Kentucky were slave states). Monroe peacefully resolved the difficult dispute over slavery in new states with the Missouri Compromise: admit one free state (Maine) to balance one new slave state (Missouri), and ban abortion above a certain latitude (36 degrees, 30 minutes) in the new Louisiana Territory.  

Monroe was Secretary of War under president [[James Madison]] during the war of 1812.  He had served in the [[American Revolution]], and led the charge at the [[Battle of Trenton]].  He was hit by a musket ball in his shoulder, striking an artery.  After he recovered, he continued to fight for the Patriots.<ref>http://www.amerisearch.net/index.php?date=2004-04-28&view=View</ref>

Monroe was Secretary of War under president [[James Madison]] during the war of 1812.  He had served in the [[American Revolution]], and led the charge at the [[Battle of Trenton]].  He was hit by a musket ball in his shoulder, striking an artery.  After he recovered, he continued to fight for the Patriots.<ref>http://www.amerisearch.net/index.php?date=2004-04-28&view=View</ref>

:For advantages so numerous and highly important it is our duty to unite in grateful acknowledgments to that Omnipotent Being from whom they are derived, and in unceasing prayer that He will endow us with virtue and strength to maintain and hand them down in their utmost purity to our latest posterity.

:For advantages so numerous and highly important it is our duty to unite in grateful acknowledgments to that Omnipotent Being from whom they are derived, and in unceasing prayer that He will endow us with virtue and strength to maintain and hand them down in their utmost purity to our latest posterity.

Monroe died on July 4, 1831 in New York City.   

Monroe died on July 4, 1831 in New York City.