Post on 12-Feb-2021
Jacksonian Democracy
and
Sectionalism
1824-1840
Adams-Onis Treaty
While fighting against the Seminole Indians, Gen.
Jackson invaded Spanish FL
JQ Adams able to negotiate Spanish claims to FL
Set boundary b/w Spain and US
Westward Expansion
Missouri Compromise:
• Missouri = Slave
• Maine = Free
• LA Territory:
• North 36 30 Free
• South 36 30 Slave
Balance of Power
Improved Transportation
+ Newly conquered territory
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Expansion
IMPORTING
SLAVES
Monroe Doctrine (1823)Europe began to lose control of colonial holdings in S America near the end of the Napoleonic wars
Adams and Monroe
2 features:
Noncolonization
Nonintervention
Enforced by British navy
JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRACYPeople should be governed as little possible
VS.
JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACYWhatever governing needed to be done, it should be done by the common man. “Government by the majority of people; instead of a government governed by the upper class” was introduced during Jackson’s Presidency.
• Growth of political power of the working class• Increased number of elected officials (western Expansion)• Land easy to get out West• Ideas of the DOI become important and people saw
inequalities in society..
Indian Removal Act (1830)5 Nations :
• Cherokee, Chickasaw,
Creek, Choctaw, and
Seminole
Southern States dissolved
Indian governments
protected by Federal
treaties
Worcester v. Georgia
Indian Removal Act (1830)
SectionalismTariff of Abominations (1828)
Promote US Industry
Nullification Crisis (1828-1833)•John Calhoun (SC) encourages nullification of Federal Tariff Laws
•SC Threatens secession
•Congress passed Force Bill allowing Jackson to threaten force
Texas Rebellion:
Americans immigrate into
Texas (Mexican Territory)
Friction w/ Mexican
Government:
Catholicism
Slavery
Sam Houston jailed
Texas Rebellion:
Lone Star Republic
declared (1836)
Santa Anna sends troops
to put down rebellion
Alamo
Goliad
San Jacinto
Annexation Debate in
Congress