JACKSONIAN ERA 1824-1840

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JACKSONIAN ERA 1824-1840
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AGE OF JACKSON ELECTION OF 1824

• CANDIDATES
• NORTHEAST
• SOUTH
• WEST
• ISSUES
• RESULTS Corrupt Bargain ??
• PRESIDENCY OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
• Did not believe public opinion should influence
  government policies. ???
• Created the Department of the Interior
• 1st to hold regular Presidential News
  Conferences
• Signed the Tariff of 1828 (Tariff of
  Abominations)
• Proposed (failed to pass)
• National Observatory
• National University

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MARKET REVOLUTION 1805-1830

• TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTION
• RIVER TRAFFICSTEAM BOAT
• ROAD CONSTRUCTION
• TOLL ROADS
• TURNPIKES
• NATIONAL ROAD
• CANALS
• ERIE CANAL
• RAILROADS
• PETER COOPER
• BEST FRIEND OF CHARLESTON
• RISE OF NEW YORK CITY
• INDUSTRIALIZATION
• TEXTILESSamuel Slater, Moses Brown
• CORPORATIONS
• LABOR SYSTEMS
• WALTHAM-LOWELL
• RHODE ISLAND SYSTEM

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OTHER FACTORS THAT LED TO AN EXPANDING AMERICAN
ECONOMY 1815-1840

• 1. POPULATION GROWTH
• IMMIGRATION
• 2. AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
• CHEAP LAND
• URBAN MARKETS
• UPLAND COTTON (SOUTH)
• 3. LUMBERING BUSINESS
• BUILDING MATERIALS
• PAPER PRODUCTS
• 4. FUR TRADE
• JOHN JACOB ASTOR
• MOUNTAIN MEN
• 5. FISHING
• NE WHALING
• CHESAPEAKE CRABS
• GULF COAST SHRIMPING
• 6. TRADE WITH SPANISH (1820S)
• WEST TEXAS, NEW MEXICO

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AMERICAS CULTURAL CHANGES 1810S-1860S

• 2ND GREAT AWAKENING
• Frontier religious movement
• Charles Finney
• Rise of Methodism, Presbyterianism and Baptists
• Christianizing the slaves.
• TRANSCENDENTALISM
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau
• REFORM MOVEMENTS
• Education
• Treatment of the insane
• Feminism
• Prison reform

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ERA OF THE COMMON MANJACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY

• ELECTION OF 1828
• CANDIDATES
• ISSUES Tariff of Abominations, Corrupt Bargain,
  personalities
• RESULTS
• CALHOUNS SC EXPOSITION AND PROTEST
• ANDREW JACKSONS ADMINISTRATION
• COMMON MAN JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY V.
  JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRACY
• SPOILS SYSTEM KITCHEN CABINET (Eaton Affair)
• MAJOR ISSUES
• 1. NULLIFICATION CRISIS
• TARIFF OF 1828
• TARIFF OF 1832
• NOV. 1832SC NULLIFIED THE TARIFF, EFFECTIVE FEB.
  1, 1833
• Jackson statednullification is disunion and
  disunion is treason.
• SC GovernorIf we dont win over tariffs, then
  we will lose over slavery.
• Militia groups openly trained expecting an attack
  by Jackson.
• JAN. 1833FORCE BILL
• JAN. 1833 TARIFF COMPROMISE OF 1833
• 2. BANK WAR

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MAJOR ISSUES CONTINUED

• 1823 Nicholas BiddlePres. of the 2nd B.U.S.
• Aristocratic, elitist
• Foreign investors
• Used the 2nd B.U.S. as a tool to control reckless
  banking.
• Small state banks were printing unbacked Bank
  Notes (reckless banking)
• Threaten Bank runs.
• New Bank Bill introduced 1832 3rd Bank of US--
  Henry Clay
• Veto
• Election of 1832
• Bank War
• Pet Banks
• Reckless Loaning
• Inflationary spiral
• Panic of 1837
• 3. INDIAN REMOVAL
• INDIAN REMOVAL ACT 1830
• TREATY OF DANCING RABBIT CREEK-1830
• REMOVAL OF THE CHEROKEE
• 1829 GEORGIA STATE LAW

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ELECTION OF 1836

• NEW PARTYWHIGS
• ELECTION STRATEGY
• CANDIDATES
• VAN BURENS ADMINISTRATION 1837-1841
• INHERITED FROM JACKSONS PRESIDENCY
• SEMINOLE WAR
• ANNEXATION OF TEXAS

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• Van Buren continued
• Caroline Affair 1837
• Aroostook War (Potato War)1838-39
• The Amistad Trial 1838
• Panic of 1837
• Election of 1840 Log Cabin Campaign
• Candidates
• Issues/campaign
• Results