The Age of Andrew Jackson

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The Age ofAndrew Jackson
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Andrew Jackson, Indian Fighter

• In 1813 Forces led by Jackson defeated the Creek
  Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend
• In the Treaty of Ft. Jackson, he forced the
  Indians to give up 23 million acres.
• More than half of the land had belonged to
  Jacksons Indian allies who helped him defeat the
  Creeks.

Jackson felt that Indians should be moved west of
the Mississippi
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Andrew Jackson, Land Speculator

• Jackson bought part of the land taken from the
  Creeks at public auction.
• No one was brave enough to bid against him.
• He bought the land for the lowest possible price.

Jackson built a fortune on land stolen from
Indians.
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Andrew Jackson, Slave Catcher

• The descendants of escaped slaves and Black
  Seminoles occupied a fort in Florida.
• Without government authorization, Jackson blew up
  the fort in 1816.
• 270 Blacks, Seminoles, and Spaniards were killed.

The African Americans who survived were turned
over to plantation owners in Georgia to work as
slaves.
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Andrew Jackson, Candidate

• As the hero of New Orleans was a tremendously
  popular figure.
• He was seen as the defender of the common man who
  would champion the cause of small farmers and
  pioneers.

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Election of 1824A Mess!

• Four Republicans ran for president.
• Andrew Jackson had the most popular votes, but no
  majority over J. Q. Adams, Clay, or CrawfordTime
  for a run-off again, as in 1800!
• Clay gave his support in House of Representatives
  to Adams in exchange for job as Secretary of
  State.
• This was called the Corrupt Bargain by
  Jacksons followers.

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• The nation was split by the election and Adams
  had a difficult presidency.
• In 1828, Jackson got another chance, created the
  Democratic Party, and won easily.
• Common folks of the farming west south, along
  with factory workers of the north and east, felt
  unity under Old Hickory.

Considered a man of the people, Jackson was the
first to rise to the presidency from humble
beginnings.
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Andrew Jackson, President

• Jackson replaced government officials with his
  supporters in a practice known as the Spoils
  System.
• Jackson took advice from friends and newspaper
  editors known as his Kitchen Cabinet.

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Andrew Jackson, Bank Buster

• Jackson did not like the National Bank or its
  director Nicholas Biddle.
• In 1832 Jackson vetoed the banks charter and
  killed it.
• He deposited the governments money in pet banks
  owned by Western Jackson Supporters.
• The liberal lending policies of these banks
  helped bust the nations economy in 1837.

Jackson saw the national bank as a private club
for Eastern elites.
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Andrew Jackson, Preserver of the Union

• When John C. Calhoun threatened to ignore the
  Tariff of Abominations and flout federal
  authority during the Nullification Crisis,
  Jackson kept South Carolina in check with a
  threat of military force.

John C. Calhoun believed in the doctrine of
states rights, but he wasnt willing to be
hanged defending them.
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Andrew Jackson, Oppressor

• Jackson supported the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
• Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Cherokee
  Indians were forced to march to Oklahoma at the
  cost of thousands of lives.
• Jackson ignored a Supreme court ruling in the
  case of Worcester vs. Georgia which barred the
  removal of the Cherokee.

The Trail of Tears.