Change In The US As A
Result of Land Acquisitions
Economic Differences and Expansion
Lead to Conflict
• Beginning with the purchase of the Louisiana
Territory the precedent was set for future land
acquisitions
• Jefferson secured control of the Mississippi
River for transportation that allowed the west
to expand
• It also created more government owned land
available for purchase by settlers
Democracy Spreads As New
Territories Become States
• It allowed more men to be
able to vote
• Qualifications to vote changed
Andrew Jackson Elected President
• First to be elected from the West
• A democrat
• First to be nominated in a national
nominating convention
• Favored the “spoils system” which allowed
men to be appointed to government positions
as a reward for their support but he argued it
allowed more people to be a part of the
government
• He was a man most common men could
relate with
Voting Requirements
in the Early 19c
Voter Turnout: 1820 1860
• More men were becoming property
owners
• Many states dropped the property
requirement for being eligible to vote
• All white males could now vote
• Some African Americans who owned
land were even allowed to vote.
Andrew Jackson
as
President
Who Backed Him?
• The planter elite in the South
• People on the frontier
• State politicians (because of the
spoils system)
• Immigrants in the city
• The “Common Man”
1832 Tariff Conflict
1828 --> “Tariff of
Abomination”
1832 --> new tariff
South Carolina’s reaction?
Refused to pay it
Jackson’s response?
Threatened federal force
Clay’s “Compromise” Tariff?
• South Carolina responded by taking back
their nullification of the tariff BUT not
the right of a state to nullify an act of
Congress
• Significance – The immediate threat to
the Union was averted.
Indian Removal
Jackson’s Goal?
1830  Indian Removal Act
Cherokee Nation v. GA (1831)
* “domestic dependent nation”
Worcester v. GA (1832)
Jackson:
John Marshall has made his
decision, now let him enforce
it!
The Cherokee Nation After
1820
Indian Removal
Trail of Tears (18381839)
3- Sectional Differences
NORTHEAST
Economy
Leader
__________
Role of
Government
•Business and
Manufacturing
•Daniel Webster
____________
•Wanted Tariffs
•Backed internal
improvements
•Wanted end to
cheap public
land
•Increasingly
nationalistic
•Against Slavery
and believed the
U.S. Govt. must
abolish it.
SOUTH
Economy
Leader
__________
Role of
Government
•Cotton growing
•John C. Calhoun
_____________
•Opposed tariffs
and government
spending on
American
System
•Increasingly
supportive of
states’ rights
•Pro-slavery and
opposed any
steps of the U.S.
Govt. to try and
abolish it.
WEST
Economy
Leader
__________
Role of
Government
•Frontier
agriculture
•Henry Clay
_____________
•Supported
internal
improvements
•Wanted cheap
land
•Loyal to the
U.S. Govt.
•Against slavery
but some
supported
letting the
people decide
the slavery issue
ALL OF THESE THINGS ALONG WITH
DISAGREEMENTS OVER THE EXPANSION
OF THE INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY
WOULD ULTIMATELY THREATEN
NATIONAL UNITY IN THE CIVIL WAR