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THE AGE OF JACKSON · Andrew Jackson brought to American political life. DO NOW In a presidential...
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Obj SWBAT Identify the changes Andrew Jackson brought to American political life.
DO NOW In a presidential election, if there is a tie in the electoral college, how is the winner determined?
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THE AGE OF JACKSON• Election of 1824Andrew Jackson wins popular vote/does not win electoral college.
• Election is decided in House of RepsJohn Quincy Adams is chosen as president (corrupt bargain)
• Jackson supporters start new party (Democratic party)
• J Q Adams supporters start the “Whigs”
• Slavery controversy/political problems (election of 1824) end “era of good feelings”
• Election of 1828 Jackson wins popular/electoral votes becomes president/ Age of Jackson starts
• Jackson era is remembered for sectional conflicts/democratic reforms & harsh treatment of Native Americans.
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SPOILS SYSTEM
• Believed appointees to federal jobs should serve maximum of fouryear terms to eliminate corruption in government
• Jackson fired more than 200 federal employees and gave large numbers of government jobs to friends and loyal supporters (Jacksonians)
• In the spoils system, incoming officials throw out former appointees and replace them with their own friends
• Jackson’s friends became his primary advisers and were known as the “Kitchen Cabinet” (a reference to where they entered the White House)
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SECOND NATIONAL BANK
• Jackson opposed the National Bank, called it the Monster Bank (he felt it favored the rich and hurt the working class)
• Jackson vetoes the banks renewal in 1832
• Federal funds are removed from the national bank and placed into state banks (pet banks)
• This puts the U.S. into an economic depression for over three years
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JACKSON ERA/SECTIONAL CONFLICTS
• Tariff issues/ TARIFFS help new northern industries
• Tariffs lessened foreign competition/allowed North to raise prices
• Tariffs had double negative effect on South:
> imports became more expensive
> British bought less cotton from south
• Tariff of 1828 causes serious conflict south calls it “TARIFF OF ABOMINATIONS”
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The South believed that the states had created the federal government and could
therefore overturn federal laws. The Federal Government believed in federal supremacy over the states. The issue of states rights will later become the main
issue of civil war.
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JACKSON & NULLIFICATION
• Leader of Southern Resistance is John C. Calhoun (South Carolina)
• While serving as Jackson’s vice president Calhoun supports the rights of states to nullify (void) national laws. The right of nullification is applied to Tariff of 1828.
• Jackson believes Calhoun’s ideas are TREASON
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• Calhoun resigns as Vice President and is then elected as a senator from S. Carolina
• South Carolina objects to tariffs of 1828/1832 attempts to SECEDE from Union
• Jackson states he will send troops to S. Carolina to enforce tariff law
• Sen. Henry Clay proposes compromise/reduction of tariffs/ends standoff
NULLIFICATION CRISIS
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JACKSON/TREATMENT OF NATIVE AMERICANS
• Jackson policies favored common people/western farmers/pioneers, little sympathy for nonwhites
• INDIAN REMOVAL ACT forces Native Americans to leave villages and move hundreds of miles west of Mississippi River (whites had not settled yet)
• TRAIL OF TEARS 15,000 Cherokees forced from Georgia/move 800 miles westward /many die
• Supreme Court decides that Native Americans had the right to stay on their land/Jackson ignores court’s ruling (Worcester v. Georgia)
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"John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it."
President Andrew Jackson re: Worcester v. Georgia
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"I saw the helpless Cherokees arrested and dragged from their homes, and driven at the bayonet point into the stockades. And in the chill of a drizzling rain on an October morning I saw them loaded like cattle or sheep into six hundred and fortyfive wagons and started toward the west....On the morning of November the 17th we encountered a terrific sleet and snow storm with freezing temperatures and from that day until we reached the end of the fateful journey on March the 26th 1839, the sufferings of the Cherokees were awful. The trail of the exiles was a trail of death. They had to sleep in the wagons and on the ground without fire. And I have known as many as twentytwo of them to die in one night of pneumonia due to ill treatment, cold and exposure..."
Private John G. Burnett
Captain Abraham McClellan's Company,
2nd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, Mounted Infantry
Cherokee Indian Removal 183839
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JACKSON/DEMOCRATIC REFORMS
Age of the Common Man• Universal suffrage (vote) for all white males (not just property owners) all males 21 & over.
• Spoils system/ Jackson– “to the victor belongs the spoils” political supporters gain government jobs
• Government jobs given to “common people”
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