Andrew Jackson
The New American
Democracy
Jeffersonian Republicans
•only political party in the U.S. from
1816 – 1824
•divided in election of 1828
–Democratic Republicans
–National Republicans
Democratic Republicans
•supported Andrew Jackson
•Frontiersman, immigrants, and big
city laborers
•favored states’ rights
•mistrusted a strong central govt.
•non-property owners could now
vote
National Republicans
•supported John Quincy Adams
•merchants and farmers
•wanted strong central govt.
Nullification Crisis
• Adams/Jackson vs. VP Calhoun
• Tariff on imported goods: North happy, South
not --- South secede???
• Central argument: federal government must
recognize a state's right to nullify within the state
any federal law that it disagreed with. If the
federal government did not recognize this right,
the state was within its rights to secede from the
Union. (S. Carolina)
• Reduce tariff over 11 year period
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0P3JOoEtDg
Campaign of 1828
•introduced the
following things:
–mudslinging
–election
slogans
–buttons
–rallies
–political BBQs
mudslinging
•attempts to ruin opponents
reputation during the campaign
Jackson WINS – he promises…
•equal protection
and benefits for all
men!
•universal white
male suffrage
suffrage
• the right to vote
– under Jackson many
more men were able
to vote
– opened up voting to
more than FWMPO
– still no women, Native
Americans, or blacks
allowed
Spoils System
•replacing govt.
employees with
winning
candidates’
supporters
Bank War
• Jackson vs. Henry Clay (Sec. of State), 1830’s
• President vs. Congress
• destroyed the Bank of the U.S.; thought it was a corrupt
monopoly & favored the wealthy
• Got the U.S. out of debt by taking over Native’s land &
resources; Americans love him even more
• Lots of politicians HATE Jackson
Jackson’s Indian
Policies
• Indian Removal Act
– passed in 1830
– allowed fed. govt. to pay Natives to move west
– defies Supreme Court ruling opposing this law
• Trail of Tears
– Fed. troops forcefully removed Cherokees
(1,000 + died)
• Indian Territory
– now Oklahoma (an area created to send
Cherokee)
SUMMARY
• QUIZ TIME
•
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYh7pato4uE
• 1. What new campaign practice started during
the Presidential Election of 1828 where you
demean your opponent?
• 2. What changed with voting rights that enabled
a common man like Andrew Jackson to win the
Presidency?
• 3. Why did Jackson dismantle the Federal
Reserve (a.k.a. the National Bank)?
• 4. How did President Jackson get the U.S. out
of debt?
• 5. What did they call the forceful removal of the
Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma?