Election of 1824
By: Enrique Garcia, Kendall Vandergrift,
Maddy Castleberry, and Sarah Smith
Election of 1824 poster
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Andrew Jackson
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 General Andrew Jackson was a hero from the War of 1812, who
was also hoping to replace James Monroe as President.
Although he had won the most popular vote, he came short on
the electoral votes to win the election. When this happens the
decision is up to the House of Representatives, which then
selected one of the other 4 men fighting to be president, John
Quincy Adams.
Andrew Jackson
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 After John Quincy Adams won the election, he made Henry
Clay, a man who had ran for President and lost, his secretary of
the state. Many of Jackson’s supporters claimed that Adams
gained the presidency by making a deal with Clay. During his
his term, he was followed with “corrupt bargain.”
 Adams had many plans for his presidency. He was going to
build roads, canals, and aid education and science. Congress,
along with Jacksons supporters, defeated his proposals.
John Adams & Andrew Jackson
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Presidency of
Andrew Jackson
1829-1837
Natalie Norr, Aidan Ballew, Joshua Terrell
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Supporters
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Andrew Jacksons supporters
were the “common men”
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Andrew saw himself as the
spokesman of the “Common
Man”-the average man.
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Jackson also believed that
the president should act as
the voice of the common
people.
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Government Changing
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This was a time in which state governments were changing
their requirements for voting.
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Most states required men to own property to vote.
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Jacksons two terms in office saw the expansion of American
democracy.
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Voting Rights In the 1920, States eliminated the law that
voters must own land, so that white male could vote at the
age of 21.
Choosing a President Selection of President candidates
by party leaders was replaced by nominating convention,
were popularly elected members of each political party chose
their candidates.
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Spoils System
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Jackson believed that the
President should act as the
voice of the common people.
To make more responsive to
popular needs, Jackson
favored the “Spoils System.”
Supporters who helped in
his election campaign were
appointed to government
posts in place of existing
officials.
The Cherokee and other Native American tribes
VS.
President Andrew Jackson
• Andrew Jackson did not like the idea of having Native Americans
involved with the American way of life and life as a whole.
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Jackson viewed the Indians as conquered subjects in which still lived
within U.S. borders. He felt this way because he thought they were
uncivilized and that they should carry on their traditions and ways of life
elsewhere while keeping separate identity.
• Jackson also thought that Native Americans would become allies with
foreign invaders and cause issues and threats to the nation.
• Because of these thoughts he felt that he needed to move the different
tribes west of the Mississippi west, and have them maintain their
traditions on reservations etc.
• He proposed the Indian Removal Act in 1830 and the Native Americans
were forced to move west of the Mississippi river.
• During 1831 the Native Americans were being forced to relocate to Indian
Territory (territory west of the Mississippi river), the Cherokee wanted to
have their land by protected by the Supreme Court so it wouldn’t be
seized by Georgia.
• John Marshall (Supreme Court Justice) led the Supreme Court to rule that
only the federal government could make laws governing the Cherokees.
This meant that the laws by Georgia did not and would not apply to them
(the Cherokees).
*Georgia and other southern states passed laws that gave the states the right
to take over Native American lands.
• President Jackson and Georgia ignored this “ruling”. Some of the
members of the Cherokee tribe gave up trying to resist the movement
and they signed a treaty to move west. But most of the Cherokees led by
John Ross opposed this. Jackson still would not negotiate with them so in
the end they were still forced to move west onto camps and reservations.
TRAIL OF TEARS
By:Julian Medel, Robert Acosta,
Megan Patterson, Hope Herington
Did you know…
Thomas Jefferson, who
often cited the Great
Law of Peace of the
Iroquois Confederacy as
the model for the U.S.
Constitution supported
the Indian Removal as
early as 1802.
Jackson’s military command
and almost certainly his life
were saved thanks to the aid
of 500 Cherokee allies at the
Battle of Horseshoe Bend in
1814. It was Jackson who
authorized the
recommendation of
President James Monroe.
Jackson viewed the
Indians as Conquered
Subjects
He Supported the
moving of Native
west of the
Mississippi.
Because of this
decision ¼ 4,000 of
the Cherokee’s died
on the journey from
hunger, exposure
and disease.
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125,000 Native Americans
lived on million’s of acres of
land in Georgia, Tennessee,
Alabama, North Carolina and
Florida.
Natives would move to an
area which is now Oklahoma,
and part of Kansas, Nebraska.
Fall and Winter of 1838-1839
16,000 Cherokees were forced
to relocate.
Forced to march in the rain,
sleet, and snow with minimal
shelter, food, or clothing.
Why did Jackson hate
the Indian Tribes?
He believed that Native American tribes
might ally with foreign invaders and
therefore posted a danger to the nation
in 1807, he negotiated the removal of
eastern Cherokees in exchange for lands
further west. He believed Indians
removal was the only way for nations to
preserve their traditions.
Why the Cherokees were not in
the best conditions:
Cherokee leaders delayed moving,
ironically, because of this legal delay the
Cherokees were now force to move in late
fall and winter, when the weather had
turned bitterly cold in 1837, federal
troops were called in to escort 16,000
Cherokees to there New home.
TARIFF OF ABOMINATION
(a very hated tariff)
By Jose Barcenas and Brad Branscum
THE TARIFF OF 1812/ ABOMINATIONS
The tariff increased prices of all natural material , but lowered the price
of all manufactured products. Leaving both the South and North very
disappointed. Many thought the bill would not be passed and be
rejected but it was actually passed. The Vice President John C.
Calhoun a southerner published The Exposition and Protest a essay that
called the the tariff unconstitutional. He believed that each state had
a choice to nullify the tariff as an unconstitutional law in the state or
territory.
SOUTHERN OUTRAGE
Southerners were mad when the government started charging a 40%
tariff on all imported goods from other countries . Forcing farmers to
sell their cotton at a smaller price to be competitive against other
farmers in the South. All the southerners blamed John Quincy Adams
for the Tariff of Abomination since it began at the end of his term in
the elections everybody went for Andrew Jackson since he had
different ideas dealing with the tariff.
NULLIFICATION
To cancel
By: Emily, Hannah, and Megan
S O U T H C A RO L I NA
THREATENS SECESSION
 In 1832 a new tariff lowered duties by 10%
 put nullification theory into practice
THE NULLIFICATION THEORY
 Each state had the right to nullify (cancel) an
unconstitutional federal law in it’s own territory.
 Calhoun saw union as a “compact” of states
 Calhoun’s nullification theory
THE ORDINANCE OF
NULLIFICATION
 State convention passed this law
 It was voiding the tariff, banning the collection of it’s
duties in South Carolina, and threatening to secede from
the union if the federal government tried to enforce it.
 President Jackson immediately spoke out against
nullification calling it nothing more than treason
 Acted quickly by dispatching U.S. naval ships to
Charleston harbor and ordered that Federal fortifications
there be strengthened.
FORCE BILL
 Gave the president power to use military force
against South Carolina
 Henry Clay finally proposed a compromise through
a reduction in tariffs over the next 10 years
 South Carolina withdrew the Nullification Law and
averted a national crisis
 Jackson forces to preserve the union
JACKSON’S WAR ON
THE BANK !!!
BY: MORGAN, BLAKE, OLIVA
Book: Creating America (pg.
369)
In the 1830’s, Congress voted on the decision to renew the Second Bank of the
United States. But President Jackson vetoed the renewal. He claimed the bank
was unconstitutional and it favored the few expenses. Even when the Supreme
Court ruled it as Constitutional. Jackson fought back, saying elected officials
had to judge the ethnicity of the Constitutionality in a law, and that the
Supreme Court wasn’t needed. He quoted: “Distinctions in society will always
exist under every just government… [B]ut when the laws undertake to… make
the rich richer and potent more powerful, the humble members of society…
have a right to complain to the injustice of their Government.” This war of the
bank established many problems in the presidential campaign of 1832. This
involved the National Republican Party and Henry Clay dissing Jackson, calling
him tyrant, saying he wanted too much as the president. But the Democrats said
he was a defender. When he won, he made sure to destroy the bank before his
term ended, in 1836. So, he had government funds put into the state banks.
Nicholas Biddle, manager of the Second Bank of the U.S., fought back by
making it harder for people to borrow his money. He hoped it would resolve the
given problems and make him return all money. Instead, people sided with
Jackson, and the bank went out of business. Jackson won the war.
Book: Social Studies Teks (Pg.
205)
Jackson greatly disliked the national bank. Jackson set out to
eliminate the bank founded by the supreme Court in McCulloch vs.
Maryland. When Jackson was reelected in 1832 he ordered the
removal of all federal deposits from the National Bank. The massive
withdrawal of funds had the effect of crippling the National Bank.
Jackson ordered the funds be placed in state banks which he left
were more agreeable to lending money to farmers
Internet Source
Credit To: www.ushistory.org/us/24d.asp
The second Bank of the United States began in 1812 for a term of 20
years. It was more important than the first National Bank. The Bank
was used for federal funds and paid national debts, but it was
answerable only to directors and stockholders and not to the electorate.
People who were for the bank wanted a strong currency and central
control of the Economy. People who were against the bank were
distrustful of the Federal Government. Jackson was concerned about the
banks Constitutionality, and their soundness about paper money
instead of hard money (gold and silver). Jackson eagerness to close the
bank came to almost an obsession. Even though the bank made strong
attacks on Jackson using the press; Jackson vetoed the Bank Recharter
Bill. Jackson also ordered that the Federal Government deposits be
removed from the Bank. The peoples were with Jackson on his decision.
The Bank expired in 1836
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