The%20Age%20of%20Jackson

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The Age of Jackson
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The Election of 1824

• Four Democratic-Republican candidates
• There were no other parties running
• Race was closest between Jackson and Adams
• Jackson wins popular vote
• Adams wins electoral collegepresident
• Jackson is not happy and will not let this go and
  even forms his own partythe Democrats!
• He will campaign for the next 4 years and use
  mudslinging to criticize Adams

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The Corrupt Bargain

• Henry Clay was accused of arranging electoral
  college votes for Adams in return for a cabinet
  post
• Clay was named Secretary of State under Adams
• accused of striking a corrupt bargain by Andrew
  Jackson
• Also accused Adams of being too aristocratic

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Jacksonian Democracy

• Jackson was a supporter of the Common Man
• Supported the expansion of suffrage to all white
  males, not just land owning white malesthis will
  gain him more votes in 1828
• Rewarded his faithful voters with govt jobs
  (spoils system)
• Will beat Adams in the Election of 1828

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Indian Removal Act, 1830

• Moved Indians into Indian Territory (Oklahoma)
• Many natives leave
• Most Cherokees stay behind after all they do a
  have a court order saying they can stay

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Native American Removal
Marshall has made his decision, now let him
enforce it!

• South had supported Jackson now they want him to
  remove the five civilized tribes
• John Marshall sides with natives in Worcester vs.
  Georgia, in which Georgia was told to honor
  Cherokee lands but Jackson ignored the courts
  decision

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Trail of Tears

• Jackson violated Worcester vs. Georgia by sending
  the army to force 16,000 Cherokee out of their
  homes and marched them to Oklahoma
• 4,000 died

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Tariff of Abominations, 1828

• Tariffs are liked by the North, disliked by the
  South
• Adams Tariff of Abominations was set up to
  protect American industry
• Helped end Adams chances of re-election
• Made Jackson look good
• Nullification Crisis Calhoun (VP) put forth the
  idea of nullification (ignore federal law)
• South Carolina threatens to secede and nullified
  the tariff
• Calhoun resigns

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Jackson Vetoes the 2nd US Bank

• He was very suspicious of the bank, saw it as a
  monopoly that benefited the wealthy elite
• He believed it was unconstitutional from the
  start
• Jackson vetoes banks 20 year re-charter

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The Whig Party

• Formed by Henry Clay and followers who opposed
  Jackson
• Favored the US Bank, upset with Jacksons veto
• Wanted a larger federal government to manage
  economy
• Favored the American System
• Renewed two party politics
• Defeated in Election of 1832

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Martin Van Buren

• Won election after Jackson retired
• Panic of 1837 hit as he entered office
• Van Buren did little to ease the Panic as he
  believed in limited federal government
• Helped revive the Whig Party

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The Election of 1840

• Whigs nominated William Henry Harrison (war hero
  from Tippecanoe) and John Tyler
• Tippecanoe and Tyler Too
• Harrison won
• Died a month later (curse?)
• Tyler becomes President but he is not a true Whig

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• King Andy?
• What is the cartoonist trying to portray with
  Jackson standing on the Constitution, Internal
  Improvements and the U.S. Bank?