<span>The two major alliances
competing for power were the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance. The Triple Entente alliance is formed by the
countries of Britain, France, and Russia; while, Austria-Hungary, Germany, and
Italy are the countries that form the Triple Alliance. These six countries were
the major powers of Europe and they formed series of alliances that caused the
two warring sides of World War One. </span>
<span> Generally these countries were
forced to fight a war with each other without exactly knowing why. Panic and
conspiracies were built around these alliances where one country thought that
the other is attacking so they had to secure each of their specific sovereignties. </span>
Loss of Republican Party discipline, the Panic of 1819, the Supreme Court case of McCulloch v. Maryland , and the Missouri Crisis of 1820 all contributed to the decline in the political consensus—leading to the end of the “Era of Good Feelings.”
