Chapter 3 Section 2 Jackson and Reform

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Chapter 3 Section 2Jackson and Reform

• Sam Hinke, Kody Brand,
• Ryan Ross, Emily Hackstein, Brady Ernst

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Jackson Takes Office

• Jackson won the popular vote but lost the
  electoral vote in the election of 1824.
• He said that his presidency had been stolen from
  him. So he decided to do something about it.
• Then Jackson came up with the Jacksonion
  Democracy- Which extended the power of the people.

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Jackson Native American Policy

• While in office Jackson had to decide where
  Native Americans should go.
• The discovery of gold in Georgia led to the
  Native Americans in that area to get forced out.
• Indian Removal Act 1830 act that called for the
  government to negotiate treaties that would
  require Native Americans to relocate west.
• Most tribes signed treaties to be moved west to
  Indian Territory

Native Americans getting moved out by Soldiers
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Jackson Native American Policy Continued

• Cherokees refused to move and were rounded up and
  in the winter this was known as the Trail of
  Tears
• Trail of Tears the journey of the Cherokee
  people from their homeland to the Indian
  Territory in 1838.
• Seminoles fought back, and tribes in the Ohio
  Valley fought back in the Black Hawk War.
• In the end though they were no match for the
  American Government.

Native Americans walking on the Trail of Tears
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Nullification Crisis

• Jackson faced many problem about slavery and
  State Hood
• In 1820 the Missouri Compromise
  
  
  
  was
  established
• States decides to start Nullifying Tariffs and
  Laws
• The Nullification Crisis was temporarily resolved
  in 1833 with a new Tariff laws.

Key Term Nullification the idea that states can
reject federal laws that they opposed.
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The Expansion of the Slavery

• Cotton gin- a machine invented in 1793 that
  cleaned cotton much faster and far more better
  than human workers.
• Most cotton was grown on large plantations than
  had many slaves.
• Enslaved African Americans made up about 1/3 of
  the Souths population in 1840.
• Frederick Douglas recalled his experience of
  slavery. He was an inspiration to African
  Americans. He was a runaway slave who wrote a
  book about his life.

The cotton gin.
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Expansion of Slavery 2

• Family bonds were also very important but the
  slave system often separated families including
  children from there parents.
• Whites who were small farmers with no slaves
  still supported slavery.

Slavery had been greatly expanded in the west.
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Reform movements

• Abolition-The movement to end slavery
• William Lloyd, a free black, published an
  abolitionist paper called the Liberator
• A series of escape routes from the south to the
  north, made to help free black slaves, was called
  the Underground Railroad.

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Womens Rights

• Lucretia Mott and Elzabeth Cody Stanton were 2
  famous women who fought for their rights.
• In the 1800 women had verry few rights.
• 1848, Mott and Elizabeth started the Seca Falls
  Convention. It was a convention designed to help
  declare womens rights
• Susan B. Anthony was a skilled organizer in the
  fight for womens rights.

Susan B. Anthony was later put on the silver
dollar.