ELECTION OF 1824
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ELECTION OF 1824• How does this election map show sectionalism?• Who do you think the winner should be?
Jackson versus JQA and Clay:2 new parties form
Democrats• Followers of Jackson• States rights
– State banks– Low taxes
Whigs• Followers of Clay• Nationalism:
– Bank of US– Internal improvements– Tariffs
Jackson versus “political enemies”
• “spoils system”- government jobs given to political supporters of the party in power
• Jackson fires 10% of government officials, replacing them with DEMOCRATS
Jackson v. Supreme Court and Cherokees
• Enacts forced relocation of Cherokee even though Supreme Court ruled they had a right to stay in Georgia
• “Trail of Tears”
Jackson vs. John C Calhoun and South Carolina Nullification
• South Carolina nullifies a Tariff• VP Calhoun supports this “states right”• Jackson threatens military force
Jackson vs. Nicholas Biddle and the National Bank
• Vetoes National Bank in 1832• New use of veto power!!• Wins re-election• Puts money into “pet banks” in states– Leads to economic chaos
Jackson: Man of the people or TYRANT?
Solutions to the “Indian problem”
• Assimilation/ Civilization:– Washington, Jefferson- Natives would become
farmers, adopt Christianity, individually own land, learn to read and write…. Become “Americans
• Removal:– Jackson- civilization will never work- need to find
some place to settle the Natives in the west• KEY QUESTION: Why did people in the 1830s
support Indian Removal?
Trail of Tears
KEY QUESTION: Why did people in the 1830s support Indian Removal?
• Why did Jackson or Boudinot think Indian Removal was in the best interest of the Cherokee?
• Do you believe them? What parts sound sincere/ believable?
• Why might some people at the time have believed that Indian Removal was a reasonable policy?
• How have our attitudes changed/ stayed the same since the 1830s?
• http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/akh10.socst.ush.exp.trail/trail-of-tears/