Andrew Jackson and Election of 1840
Andrew Jackson
Zinn Questions
Contrast Thomas Jefferson’s views as Secretary of
State concerning Indian policy with those during his presidency. Why did his views change?
How does Andrew Jackson’s early political/military career foreshadow his Indian policies as President?
How does Zinn’s view of the War of 1812 contrast with traditional histories?
Zinn Questions
Explain Zinn’s view of Arthur Schlesinger’s The Age of
Jackson and Marvin Meyers’ The Jacksonian
Persuasion.
To what extent did the Cherokee nation change its culture in order to survive within the U.S?
Explain the significance of the phrase: “As long as grass grows or water runs.”
Zinn Questions
Cass wrote to North American Review in 1830 We must not regret, he said, "the progress of civilization and improvement, the triumph of industry and art, by which these regions have been reclaimed, and over which freedom, religion, and science are extending their sway.”
“A barbarous people, depending for subsistence upon the scanty and precarious supplies furnished by the chase, cannot live in contact with a civilized community."
The editor of the North American Review , for whom
Cass wrote this article, told him that his project "only defers the fate of the Indians. In half a century their condition beyond the Mississippi will be just what it is now on this side. Their extinction is inevitable."
The Second Party System
What was the First Party System?
Why did it end?
Hartford Convention (1815)
Federalits meeting
Opposed the war of 1812
Discussed removing the 3/5 compromise
Discussed requiring a 2/3 majority for War or admission of states
Era Of Good Feeling
1815 to 1825
lower level of concern over potential foreign intervention on the American continent
a relative consensus over domestic policy illustrated in the lack of partisan factions.
The Era reached its peak in the election of 1820,
Monroe is re-elected by all but one electoral vote.
Questions?
What happened in the election of 1824?
Campaign of 1840
an election that would turn out an astounding 80 percent of a greatly expanded electorate
Jacksonian democrats:
Martin Van Buren to organize a Democratic Party that resurrected a Jeffersonian philosophy of minimalism in the federal government
Whigs —a union of former National Republicans,
Antimasons, and some states' rights advocates
Whigs = American System
Support for a high tariff to protect American industries and generate revenue for the federal government
Maintenance of high public land prices to generate federal revenue
Preservation of the Bank of the United States to stabilize the currency and rein in risky state and local banks
Development of a system of internal improvements (such as roads and canals) which would knit the nation together and be financed by the tariff and land sales revenues.
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Tippecanoe and Tyler, too!
What's the cause of this commotion, motion, motion,
Our country through?
It is the ball a-rolling on
For Tippecanoe and Tyler too.
For Tippecanoe and Tyler too.
And with them we'll beat little Van, Van, Van,
Van is a used up man.
And with them we'll beat little Van.
