The Era of Good Feelings an Era of Sectionalism The era of good feelings, was not quite an Era of good feelings, despite the numerous good things like the new, fast emerging feeling of Nationalism, and a considerable amount of tranquility and prosperity. Stephen Decatur, the man who conquered the menacing Barbary pirates even said, “Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be right; but our country, right or wrong!”(Doc. …showed first 75 words of 863 total…

…showed last 75 words of 863 total…good feelings and its so-called Nationalism. With all these facts hidden and boiling in the background the era of good feelings only hid the true problems and if you put your problems off to long they will come back to haunt you, which is exactly what happened when everything finally exploded and America went to war, with itself, and the civil war happened. A civil war that pitted brother against brother and split a nation.