Carole Bucy
Osher Lifelong Learning - Class 4
16 February, 2016
The Temple, Nashville
1795
1800
1810
1820
1830
1840
1850
1860
Population
Slaves
77,262
105,000
261,000
422,000
682,000
829,000
1,002,717
1,109,801
10,585
13,584
44,734.
80,107
141,647
183,059
239,459
275,719
National Republicans
Democratic
Republicans
(Jacksonian
Democrats)
John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van
Daniel Webster
Buren, James K. Polk
Business owners, Southern
planters, former New England
ex-Federalists
“the common man”, former
Jeffersonians
Support a strong activist federal
government (Federalists light)
Advocates for a limited national
government (Libertarians light)
Want government to spend
money on public schools &
moral reforms
Supported sectionalism, states
rights & federal restraint in
economic & social affairs
Want federal involvement at all
levels
Support only the bare minimum
of federal involvement in
anything
National Republicans
Democratic
Republicans
(Jacksonian
Democrats)
Supported the Bank of the U. S.
Opposed the Bank of the U.S.
Advocates of federal spending
for projects to benefit the entire
country: roads, bridges, canals,
& other public improvements
Opposed to federal spending for
projects within states – including
those that crossed state lines
(interstate)
Support tariffs & manufacturing
Oppose high protective tariffs
Support federal subsidies for the
arts, literature, and science
Art, literature, science? You’ve
got to be kidding!
Nationalistic Vision
Favored the liberty of the
individual – on guard against the
inroads of privilege into the
government
St. Louis Art Museum - George Caleb Bingham’s “Verdict of the People”
Source of image: https://commons.wikimedia.org
Source: www.cerebro.com
Source: www.onealwebsite.com
https://randall120.wordpress.com
Source: www.u-s-history.com
Source: www.encyclopedia.com
Source: www.thismatter.com
Anti-Masonic Party
William Morgan
A New
Political
Party
Emerges
The Whigs
Source: Library of Congress; www.loc.gov
Source: www.mappinghistory.uoregon.edu
Clay’s National Republicans
Webster’s New England Ex-Federalists
States’ Rights Southerners
Anti-Masonic Party
Cheekwood – painting by Ralph E. W. Earl –
Source: www.tnportraits.org
The Liberty Party
nominated James G.
Birney, an
abolitionist.
Birney received 7069
votes in 1840
Source: www.columbia.edu/itc/history/foner
Image in Public Domain
Source: www.whitehouse.gov
1847 stamps
1848 Election- the Whig Zachary Taylor
1850 – Millard Fillmore
1852 – Franklin Pierce
1856 – James Buchanan
1860 Abraham Lincoln
Source: www.regentsprep.org
Source: www.slideshare.net
 It needs not a Prophet or
talker
To tell you in prose or in
verse,
The exploits of Patriot
Walker
Whom Tyrants will long
deem a curse—
Source: Historical Society of Pennsylvania website