Come On Now

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Chapter 13

• Come On Now!

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• Election of 1824 Corrupt Bargain
• Jackson, Adams, Clay, Crawford
• Come down to Adams and Jackson and Speaker of the
  House Clay to decide.
• John Quincy Adams as President with Henry Clay as
  Sec of State
• Andrew Old Hickory Jackson
• Choice of the people
• Campaign mudslinging Adams v Jackson

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• Spoils System
• The idea that on becoming President all the
  previous supporters, friends, and family all
  deserve government jobs as well.
• Tariff of Abominations
• This bill was expected to be defeated, but it
  made it through hostilities.
• John C. Calhoun talks of nullification in the
  South Carolina Exposition.
• Tariff of 1832 and later the Compromise Tariff of
  1833 calmed the nullies

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• Removal of the Native Americans
• U.S. policy of drawing and redrawing treaty
  lines, civilizing, and Christianizing the
  Natives.
• The Cherokee had settled agriculture, schools,
  alphabet, infrastructure, slaves.
• 1830 Indian Removal Act 100,000 Natives
  including the Five Civilized Tribes sent to
  Oklahoma.
• 1836 Bureau of Indian affairs
• Jackson battles the Bank Biddle!
• Issues speculation, paper money, deflation,
  specie circular, Force Bill.

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• Jackson vetoes the Bank. Kills the remaining bank
  upon reelection by channeling the money
  elsewhere.
• Whig Party developed in resistence to King Andrew
  I. Take on the ideals of swaying the common man.
• 1836 Martin Van Buren (aka the Yes Man or the
  Little Magician) v Tippecanoe (William Henry
  Harrison) and Tyler Too.

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• Panic of 1837 wildcat banks, wheat crop
  failures, Hessian fly, foreign loans, etc.
• Mexico grants land to Stephen Austin in 1823
  (Catholic, slavery, and Mexicanization)
• Texas Revolution in 1836 Sam Houston Commander
  in Chief.
• Alamo to Goliad to Santa Anna butching 400
  soldiers as pirates.
• Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett
• Houston attcks during the siesta and makes Anna
  sign two Treaties. Called the agreement illegal
  upon his release because it was signed under
  duress.

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• William Henry Harrison Old Tippacanoe
  issueless and enemyless in 1840. Hard cider and
  log cabins.
• Two party system here to stay usually had more
  in common that not.