Unit 4

• “America and the Frontier”

• “Genesis of the Civil War”

• Why?

• Review…

Prevention of split?

The Age of Jackson

Target

• Evaluate the presidency of Andrew Jackson by writing an essay.

• Does Jackson deserve to be on the twenty dollar bill?

Head of State

• Fought duels

• Brawler

• Assassination attempt

• “King Andrew the 1st”

King Andrew the First

Chief Executive

• Worcester vs. Georgia

• South Carolina’s nullification

• Jackson’s cabinet

Worcester vs. Georgia

Trail of Tears

Cherokee Removal

South Carolina’s Nullification

• 1828-Tariff of Abominations

• South hates it

• South Carolina (John C. Calhoun) introduces Nullification

• Jackson threatened to go to war (Force Bill)

• Hang Calhoun

• South Carolina backs down!

Jackson’s Cabinet

Commander in Chief

• Trail of Tears

• U.S. army troops forced the relocation

Chief Legislator

• Indian Removal Act 1830

– Fed. Gov’t provided funds to negotiate treaties

– 90 treaties (Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw)

Vetoed charter to extend National Bank

Force Bill

Chief Economic Planner

• Anti-National Bank

• Agent of the wealthy

• Pulled money out

• Put in “Pet Banks”

• State banks that were loyal to Jackson

Leader of his Political Party

• Democratic-Republican (Democrats)

• Spoils System

• Clay and Webster (Whigs) hated him

Chief Diplomat

• Treaty of New Echota

• Minority of Cherokee who wanted to re-locate

Representative of all the People

• Extended voting rights

• Concerned for the common people

• Humble origins-born in a log cabin

• Actually a wealthy plantation owner

Jackson’s LegacyDoes Jackson deserve to be on the twenty dollar bill?

Thesis and at least 3 specific examples (3 paragraphs)

Legacy of Jackson

• Increase in Sectionalism

• Tariff of 1828 (Abominations)

• Led to Nullification

• State’s Rights

• Slavery

• Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren

• Panic of 1837

• Caused by Jackson’s “Bank War”

• Collapse of the credit system

• Bankrupted hundreds of businesses

• 1/3 of the population out of work

• His interference in the “Amistad Africans” case.

William Henry Harrison

• Whig candidate

• Great at campaigning

• “Tippecanoe and Tyler too”

Harrison’s campaign

• War hero

• Man of the people

• Chose John Tyler as running mate (Southerner)

Election of 1840

Harrison’s Inauguration

John Tyler

• Opposed many Whig policies

Legacy of the two parties

• Political speeches become entertainment

• Passion rather than reason

• Involves more Americans in the process

• Average citizen become more politically aware.

• Increases tension between North and South

Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny

• “It was the United States’ destiny to expand to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican territory”

• Obvious…inevitable