List the 1st five presidents, party? one (or more) important facts?
• 1 George Washington – 1789 non-partisan (neutrality, bank, growth of
federal power)
• 2 John Adams – 1797 Federalist (parties, A-S Acts)
• 3 Thomas Jefferson – 1801 D.Republican (growth of court power, Louisiana
purchase, Embargo)
• 4 James Madison – 1809 D.Republican (Tippecanoe, War of 1812)
• 5 James Monroe – 1817 D. Republican (Florida, Monroe Doctrine, Missouri
Compromise) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwvHtkCusHo
• 6 John Quincy Adams – 1825 N. Republican (Corrupt Bargain)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qnVpC4zXpM
• 7 Andrew Jackson – 1829 Democrat (“Jacksonian Democracy”, spoils
system, closes bank, nullification crisis, Indian Removal)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYh7pato4uE
Bell Ringer!
Challenge:
List the first 5 presidents and one thing
you remember about them or what
happened during their term
1 – George Washington
2 – John Adams
3 – Thomas Jefferson
4 – James Madison
5 – James Monroe
6 – John Quincy Adams
7 – Andrew Jackson
John Quincy Adams –
President
th
6
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qnVpC
4zXpM
• Why did J.Q. Adams become president
over Jackson in what became known as
the “Corrupt Bargain”?
• What about Adams personality worked
against him?
Andrew Jackson
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYh7p
ato4uE
Jackson in the White House
• Rise of the “Common Man”
– More white men gain suffrage (able to vote)
– Native Americans, women, and (in most
states) African Americans denied suffrage
**Largely
supported
by frontier
farmers**
From rags to riches…
New Political Parties
• Democrats - (Jackson) – supported
mostly by frontier farmers, city workers,
believed in limited government
• Whigs – formed in response to Jackson’s socalled King-like behavior (party name is a
reference back to old England) Supported by
business elite, some southern planters,
many former Federalists – they wanted
the government to take a hands on role
to spur the economy
National Nominating
Conventions
• Delegates from all the states choose the
party’s candidate for President
Spoils System
A ‘Spoiled’ System…
• Imagine you try out for a position on this
year’s soccer team
• How should players be chosen?
• Why?
• What if the coach picked players based on
which parents helped him get the coaching
job? Or which parents he was friends
with?
• What problems could arise?
• a practice where a political party, after winning
an election, gives gov’t jobs to its supporters,
friends and relatives as a reward for working
toward victory, and as an incentive to keep
working for the party
—as opposed to a merit system, where offices are
awarded on the basis of qualifications
“kitchen cabinet” advisors (qualified advisors he
met with that were not his official cabinet)
Jackson v. Bank
Jackson shuts down the bank
Boy isn’t
this
ironic?!!
• He believed the bank favored the wealthy over
average people
• Jackson vetoes the bank’s charter which was up
for renewal
Tariff Crisis
• Tariff – (tax on imports) help nation’s
manufacturers (North), opposed by South
“Tariff of Abomination” (Hatred)
Nullification Crisis
• Calhoun (VP) claims states have the right to
cancel (or “nullify”) a federal law they feel is
unconstitutional (where did we see this before??)
• SC threatens to secede (withdraw) from the union,
Clay steps in again to help reach a compromise
Calhoun
Webster
Clay
Tariff Crisis cartoon
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNgIU
UD7i-A
• BIG IDEA – How did the tariff crisis
aggravate sectional or regional differences
in the US?
Regional Differences