Question

What set the stage for the Era of Good Feelings?

End of wars in Europe
Complete control of the American hemisphere
Common direction for America
Only two key political parties

Answer 1

The good feelings, perhaps better termed complacency, were stimulated by two events of 1816, during the last year of the presidency of James Madison: the enactment of the first U.S. avowedly protective tariff and the establishment of the second National Bank.