Jacksonian Era

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Jacksonian Era

• Rise and Fall of Andrew Jackson

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Voting requirements before and after Jacksons
Election
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Jackson Runs for President 1824
Portrayed as the Common Man And someone who would
defend the Interests of the common people
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Jackson Loses the Election of 1824

• A Corrupt Bargain
• End of Era of Good Feelings
• Democrats split from the Republicans

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Election of 1828

• Issues
• Personal Attacks on Rachel Jackson
• Claims that she was a bigmist
• Jackson forgives people who attack him but never
  those who attack his wife
• She dies two weeks before the innauguration

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Jackson wins Election 1828

• Reasons
• Universal white manhood suiffrage all white
  males can vote
• He appealed to more people
• John Q Adams was an inneffective leader

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Jacksons Inaugural Ball
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Jacksons Acts as President

• Spoils System
• Indian Removal Act
• Kill the National Bank
• Settle the Nullification Crisis

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Spoils System

• Jackson wanted to make his job easier
• Rewarded supporters with key jobs in the
  government (PATRONAGE)
• Not qualified for these jobs
• Created a Kitchen Cabinet secret group of
  advisor friends outside the official cabinet

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Worcester v Georgia (1832)

• State of Georgia tried to make laws on Cherokee
  Indian Territory
• Supreme Court says that federal property cannot
  be governed by state laws
• Andrew Jackson refuses to make Georgia follow the
  rules

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Indian Removal Act

• Farm technology improved and American moved
  westward to find farmland
• Indians were in the war, so Jackson removed them
• Act allowed the Federal Army to forcibly remove 5
  civilized tribes and relocate them across the
  Mississippi River

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Andrew Jacksons Trail of Tears
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Jackson Kills the National Bank

• Arguments against bank
• Paper money is unstable
• Banks should not issue bank notes (IOUs)
• People speculate (gamble) too much with loans

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Killing the Bank

• PET BANKS
• Takes federal money out of National Bank and puts
  it into small state banks
• Federal Bank now has no money in it
• Jackson vetoes the bank when it comes up for
  reauthorization
• Bank is Dead until Federal Reserve System in
  1910s

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Tariff of Abominations (Tariff of 1828)

• Tariff is seen as unconstitutional by Southern
  states
• It hurt their trade with foreign nations
• Made them dependent on the North for goods
• South Carolina Exposition and Protest document
  arguing against the tariff and threatened to
  nullify the tariff

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Nullification Crisis

• Congress passes Tariff of 1832
• South Carolina threatens to Nullify the tariff
  claiming states rights over federal power
• Andrew Jackson threatens to send in the military
  if SC nullifies
• Huge show of sectionalism

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Growth of the Whig Party

• Opposition to
• Jacksons Democrats
• Thought Jackson
• was a tyrant

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Log Cabin Campaign
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Election 1840

• Whig elected President
• William Henry Harrison
• Tippicanoe and Tyler Too
• Harrison dies 30 days into office
• Tyler leans more toward Democratic ideals and is
  kicked out of Whig Party