Warm Up
Hand in your Slavery Experience Essay
and Primary Source Packet Questions
on Front Table
Prepare for Notes
The Election of 1828
Adams v. Jackson
Review
 Summarize
John Quincy Adams bio
 Summarize
Andrew Jackson’s bio
The Election of 1828
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Jackson & Calhoun
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Adams and Rush
The Campaign: National
Republicans
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Attacked Jackson:
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Slave Trading
Treason
Murder
Gambling
Family
Wife
Sticks and stones
Adams, Sticks
and stones …
The Campaign: Democratic
Republicans
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Attacking Adams
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Gambling Furniture
Padding Expense
The Vote
Outcomes
 Jackson
takes office
 King Mob
 Firsts
 Common
 Jackson
Man and Self Made Man
loses his wife
Spoils System
 Democrats
concerned with growth of the
Federal Government
 Bureaucracy – system in which non
elected government workers carry out
laws
 Fired many government workers and hired
supporters
Campaign Paraphernalia
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Good copy of campaign flyer, poster, rally
poster, etc. Be Artistic!
Create a campaign slogan (ex. Tippecanoe
and Tyler too!)
Must include factual information to persuade a
voter
May use mudslinging tactics
Hints: Contrast Lives, Adams Presidency, use
Book
Will be collected at end of period (15 minutes)
Warm Up
Take out Ch 11 Packets
Prepare to write down 8 facts
about
Andrew Jackson during the Movie
The Jacksonian
Presidency
1828-1836
Andrew Jackson: The Man
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Self Made Man
 Born in backwoods of
South Carolina
 Courier in
Revolutionary War
 Intense hatred of
British
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Moves to Tennessee
 Lawyer
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Becomes
Tennessee's 1st
Congressman
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1798 Senate,
Tennessee Supreme
Court
Hero of New Orleans
The Seminole Wars
 Ordered
by James Monroe to protect
settlers in Georgia from the Seminole
Raids
King Mob
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Rowdy inauguration
Andrew Jackson
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Jackson as President
 What did Jackson
represent to the
people who voted for
him?
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Anti-Eastern wealth
Disliked men who
were powerful from
privilege
Disliked special
interest groups
Spoils System
 Democrats
concerned with growth of the
Federal Government
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Bureaucracy – system in which non elected
government workers carry out laws
 Fired
many government workers (10%)
and hired supporters
Kitchen Cabinet
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Jackson had both an
official and unofficial
cabinet
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Disbanded formal
Cabinet meetings
Unofficial Advisors
• Does the President
today use a staff of
unofficial advisors?
Tariff Troubles
– Congress enacts a high tariff on
European manufactured goods
 1828
 “Tariff
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of Abominations”
Southerners strongly opposed
Vowed to nullify
Sectional Divide
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Nullification
Webster v. Hayne
means the
Debate
end of the
States have the right to
nullify acts of the
Federal Government
deemed unsuitable!
Union!
Liberty and
Union, now and
forever, one and
inseparable!
States even
so far as have
the right to
secede!
Nullification Crisis
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Nullification Act
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Compromise
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South Carolina
Henry Clay
Force Bill
Vice President Troubles
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Jackson asked to
The Union –
speak at states
rights
next to
our
liberty most
dinner…
dear!
Our federal
union…
must be
preserved!
Activity
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Create a comic strip about Andrew Jackson’s life up to
and including the election of 1828.
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Minimum Six Frames
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Must Have Captions
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Must be Good, but not necessarily funny
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Don’t worry if you don’t have artistic talent. Have you
seen Mr. Bergman draw? For serial.
Land Conflicts
The Trail of Tears
The Indian Removal Act of 1830
 Remove
Native Americans from East of
Miss. River
 Included
tribes such as the Choctaw and
Cherokee
 Cherokee
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in Georgia
Civilized Tribes
Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
 Cherokee
refuse to give up land
 Treaty from 1790s
 Sued state government
 Supreme Court rules in favor of Cherokee
Jackson Ignores the Court
John Marshall has
made his decision,
now let him
enforce it.
Removal of the Cherokee
 Forced
Cherokee to sign treaty removing
them from their land
 Many
of 17,000 refused to honor treaty
 Jackson
send Gen. Winfield Scott and
7,000 federal troops
Nunna daul Isunyi
 Cherokee
forced to March to lands west of
Mississippi
 Some
travel
4,000 would pass away during
Jackson Picks a Successor
 Jackson
 Martin
hand picks his successor
Van Buren