Influence of Jackson on Politics in America: 1816-1840
JQA, 1825-1829
•“Tainted Election”
•Great Sec of State
•Personality and skills not
presidential
•First elected w/out majority
•National University
•Astronomical Observatory
•Internal improvements
•Supported Cherokee rights
•Tariff of Abominations
Denmark Vesey, leader of 1822
Slave revolt in South Carolina
Slave Revolts in America
1739 Stono Rebellion
1800 Gabiel Prosser
1822 Denmark Vesey
1831 Nat Turner
1839 Amistad
1824:
British
abolition
of slavery
Vote on the Tariff of 1824:
Raised tariff rates 23% to 37%
Tariff of Abominations, 1828…….raised from 37% to 45%
Henry Clay, Kentucky Senator
American System
JQA’s VP
Presidential hopeful
Tariff of Abominations supporter
Jackson’s arch enemy
Founder of the Whig Party
Let it stand as a principle that government originates from the people; but
Let the people be taught…….that they are not able to govern themselves.”
-Jeremy Belknap, New England Clegyman
“Whenever the real power in government lies, there is a real danger of oppression.
In our Government the real power lies in the majority of the community….”
-James Madison, Federalist #10
“Democracy is the worst of all political evils”
-Elbridge Gerry
The mob begin to think and reason. Poor reptiles!......They bask in the sun, and
Ere noon they will bite, depend upon it. The gentry begin to fear this.”
-Gouvernour Morris (wrote preamble of Constitution)
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and
murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit
suicide.”
-John Adams
“The people who own the country ought to govern it.”
-John Jay
Davey Crockett,
Tennessee Congressman
Andrew Jackson: The inauguration of the “New Democracy”
•Universal Manhood Suffrage
•Power of the West, frontier aristocrat
•Spoils System, patronage, “Rotation System”
•Kitchen Cabinet (6 officials, 13 others
Andrew Jackson, founder of the
Modern Democratic party
Jackass…….Jackson……..hmmmmm
In 1835, a would-be assassin pulled a pistol on Andrew Jackson as he was walking
through the Capitol. He pointed it at Jackson and pulled the trigger at point-blank range,
but nothing happened. Jackson's aides were stunned –
it was the first assassination attempt on a US President in history.
In 1835, a would-be assassin pulled a pistol on Andrew Jackson as he was walking through the Capitol. He pointed it at Jackson and pulled the trigger at point-blank range, but nothin
The man, Richard Lawrence, then pulled another pistol and attempted to shoot,
but Andrew Jackson, ever the badass, pulled out his cane and beat him down.
Today, Andrew Jackson remains the only President to have beat up his own assassin.
Jackson’s First Term…..
•Crazy inaugural party
•Kitchen Cabinet
•Spoils System
•Peggy Eaton Affair iso Calhoun
•Maysville Road veto
•South Carolina Exposition leads
To Calhoun’s resignation
John C Calhoun
Jackson’s VP
writes “South Carolina
Exposition”
Espousing nullification over
the Tariff Issue
Disliked Peggy Eaton
Jefferson Day toast,
“Our Union, next to liberty,
Most dear”.
Andrew
Jackson &
His new and
improved
VP,
1832 edition:
Martin
Van Buren
“Old
Kinderhook”
“The little
Magician”
“Liberty and Union,
now and forever”
-Daniel Webster
“Such grants [of money by the federal government] have
always
. been [passed] under the control of the general
principle that the works which might be thus aided should be
"of a general, not local, national, not State," character. A
disregard of this distinction would of necessity lead to the
subversion of the federal system.... I am not able to view [the
Maysville Road Bill] in any other light than as a measure of
purely local character.... It has no connection with any
established system of improvements; [and] is exclusively
within the limits of a State [Kentucky]....
Source: Jackson’s Veto of the “Maysville Road Bill” (1830)
Top Ten Presidential Vetos
President
1. FDR
2. Cleveland
3. Truman
4. Eisenhower
5. Grant
6. T. Roosevelt
7. Ford
8. Reagan
9. Wilson
10.Nixon
Jackson
GW-JQA
Vetoes
635
584
250
181
93
82
66
62
44
43
12
10