Chapter 7 section 3

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Andrew Jackson

• Chapter 7 section 3

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Main Idea/Key Terms

• Andrew Jacksons policies spoke for the common
  people but violated Native American rights
• Andrew Jackson
• Democratic Republican Party
• Spoils system
• Indian Removal
• Trail of Tears

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• SSUSH7 Students will explain the process of
  economic growth, its regional and national impact
  in the first half of the 19th century, and the
  different responses to it.
• a. Explain the impact of the Industrial
  Revolution as seen in Eli Whitneys invention of
  the cotton gin and his development of
  interchangeable parts for muskets.
• b. Describe the westward growth of the United
  States include the emerging concept of Manifest
  Destiny.
• c. Describe reform movements, specifically
  temperance, abolitionism, and public school.
• d. Explain womens efforts to gain suffrage
  include Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Seneca
  Falls Conference.
• e. Explain Jacksonian Democracy, expanding
  suffrage, the rise of popular political culture,
  and the development of American nationalism.

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The End of an Era

• Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both die on July
  4th, 182650 years after the Declaration of
  Independence was approved by Congress
• This was the end of the Era of the founding
  fathers

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Expanding Democracy

• John Q. Adams was in his second year as president
• He was ineffective
• This was due to Andrew Jackson

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Tensions between Adams and Jackson

• In the election of 1824, Andrew Jackson won the
  popular vote, but did not have a majority of
  electoral votessound familiar?
• The decision went to Congress
• Henry Clay convinced those who voted for him to
  vote for Adams, and Adams then named Clay Sec. of
  State
• Jacksons followers called this the corrupt
  bargain

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• Jackson leaves the Republican Party, and forms
  the Democratic-Republican Party (forerunner of
  the Democratic Party)
• During Adams presidency, many states expanded
  voting rights
• This helped Jackson in 1828

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Jacksons New Style

• Jackson appealed to the common man
• Won in a landslide
• People flooded to Washington to celebrate
• Destroy the White House in the party

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The Spoils System

• Jackson announced that all of his appointees
  would serve no more than 4 year terms
• Replaced many positions with his people
• Many became his advisors
• They were known as the kitchen cabinet because
  they were said to have come in through the
  kitchen window

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Removal of Native Americans

• People had one of two views
• Move the Native Americans away
• Absorb them into white culture
• All Natives moved west except for the five
  civilized tribes in the southeast
• Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, and Chickasaw
• Jackson had other plans

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Indian Removal Act of 1830

• Jackson pushes through the Indian Removal Act of
  1830
• Provided funds to buy out Native land and
  relocate them west
• U.S. forcible removed the ones who resisted

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The Cherokee

• The Cherokee take the state of Georgia to court
• Court wont rule b/c they say the Cherokee have
  no standing
• Finally get recognized
• Supreme Court rules in favor of the Cherokee
• Jackson John Marshall has made his decision
  now let him enforce it

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Trail of Tears

• Government recognizes small minority of Cherokee
  who want to move as the true representatives, and
  sign a treaty
• The Cherokee forcibly removed in 1838
• ¼ of the Natives die in route to Oklahoma
• Known as the Trail of Tears

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