The Corrupt Bargain to the Man of the People
Jackson Loses, Jackson Plots, Jackson has his REVENGE!

• Tecumseh
– Prophetstown
– Battle of Tippecanoe
– Gov. Harrison (future
President)
– Battle of Thames
• Jackson
– Battle of New Orleans
• Francis Scott Key
– Star Spangled Banner

• Led to:
– Hartford Convention
– Monroe’s Election
– War of 1812
• During:
– Election of 1820
– Avoided partisanship
– Monroe Doctrine
• End of Good Feelings:
– Panic of 1819 (we will see more)
– Missouri Compromise
– Election of 1824

• Continued from Jefferson
The American System
Henry Clay
• Sectional jealousy kept this from occurring
• Supported by
North and East
• South never really on board b/c of other available markets
• Re-chartered Second Bank of the US for 20 years until 1836.

• Smaller plots of land
• Lower price for land
• Response to Panic of
1819
• Good for who?
• Wildcat banks
– State banks that issued currency and loans for speculators.
– Not regulated by Fed.
Gov’t

• Slavery Issue is ignited
• North/South
Split
• Temporary compromise
• Missouri slave/Maine non-slave
• 36°30’ line

• Limit European expansion into the
Americas
• Allow for Latin Am. countries to gain independence w/out influence from Europe
• US gains influence and safety

• The “Corrupt Bargain”
• Clay, Crawford, Quincy Adams, Jackson
• No candidate won majority of Electoral votes
• Clay dropped out
• Crawford had stroke
• Quincy Adams vs. Jackson
• Clay (Speaker of the House) used power to pull for Quincy Adams
• Quincy Adams becomes Pres.
• Clay becomes Sec. of State

• Tariff of Abominations
(1828)
– Protective tariffs for
Northern industry
– South was mad
– Hurt Southern economy
• Nullification Crisis
– See Jackson
• Native Policies
– Did not support expansion into West
– Protected Cherokee rights in
GA./armed conflict

• Second Party System
– Sectional divisions in
Republican Party in
Election of 1824
– Two parties form
• Democratic Party
• National Republicans
• First Modern Campaign
– Negative Campaign tactics
– Literature
– Buttons
– Paraphernalia

– http://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/File:Hunters_of_K entucky.ogg

Election of 1828
(Emergence of Democratic Party)

• Analyzing Changes in Voter Participation, part 1 http://edsitement.neh.gov/sites/default/files/wo rksheets/AnalyzeChanges.pdf
• State Constitution changes http://edsitement.neh.gov/sites/default/files/wo rksheets/ChangeFranchise.pdf
• VOTER PARTICIPATION IN PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTIONS BY STATE: 1824-1836 http://www.whitehousehistory.org/whha_classro om/classroom_documents-1828_k.html

• Analyzing Changes in Voter Participation, part 2 http://edsitement.neh.gov/sites/default/files/works heets/AnalyzeChanges02.pdf
• Interactive Election Results for 1824
• Interactive Election Results for 1828
• Interactive Election Results for 1832
• Interactive Election Results for 1836

Jackson as President
• Inauguration
– March 4, 1829
– First public inauguration
– 21,000 attended
– Post inauguration ceremony held at White
House-open to public
– "The reign of King Mob seemed triumphant.“
Joseph Story, Supreme Court Justice

Jackson as
President
• Spoils System
– rotation in office prevents corrupt bureaucracy
– System of patronage
– replaced federal employees with friends or party loyalists
– appointment of officials with no experience related to their responsibilities
• Tariff of Abomination
• Jackson’s plan
• North vs. South
(Webster vs. Calhoun)
• “Nullies”/Nullification
Crisis
– Calhoun Resigned as
VP
– The South Carolina
Exposition and Protest
• Henry
Clay=Compromise
– Force Bill
– Compromise Tariff

Jackson as President- Indian Removal Act

• Native Policies
• Indian Removal Act
• Bureau of Indian
Affairs
• Oklahoma = “Indian
Territory”
• Trail of Tears-1838
– Forced from land by bayonet point
– 4,000 of 16,000 died

• The Bank War
• Re-chartering the
Bank early (1832)
– Biddle, Pres. Of
Bank
• VETO
• “Pet Banks”
• “Hard money” vs.
“Soft Money”
– Specie Circular
– Panic of 1837
• Charter expires 1836