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Frank J. Wetta, Ph.D.
History Department
Kean University
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The Jacksonian Era (1830s)
Sectionalism and Nationalism (1830s -1850s)
American Westward Continental Expansion
Slavery and the Sectional Crisis
The American Civil War (1861-1865)
Reconstruction (1863-1877)
Big Business, Labor, and the Gilded Age
The New Immigration
The Populist Movement
The Progressive Movement
America: The New World Power (1898)
American and the First World War (1917-1919)
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“I was born for a
storm, and a
calm does not
suit me.”
Andrew Jackson
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Old Hickory the Indian
fighter
Hero of the Battle of New
Orleans
Champion of the common
man
Foe of special interests “aristocracy” of banks and
special privilege
Strong, Activist President
The Real Jackson?
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"Andrew Jackson was the first
modern president, because he
was the first one who asserted
that the president was not
merely a member of the
government's symphony: he
was its conductor."
Jon Meacham
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Election of 1824 / “Corrupt Bargain” charge
Revival of a Two-Party System: National Republicans (Whigs) v Democrats
/ End of the “Era of Good Feelings”
Election of 1828
Expansion of Democracy
Activist Presidency – the President of US sets the national agenda
Nullification crisis
Spoils System
Election of 1832
The Bank War
Species Circular / Panic of 1837
Indian Removal from Southeast (1830-1838)
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The Election of 1824
Four candidates
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Wm Crawford (South)
Henry Clay (West)
Andrew Jackson (West)
John Quincy Adams
(North) - winner
“corrupt bargain” charge
End of “Era of Good
Feelings”
Election of 1828
John Quincy Adams
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Andrew Jackson – winner
Election of 1832
Andrew Jackson – winner
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Henry Clay
Pro-Jackson Political Cartoon
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King Andrew
Spoils System
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Such a cortege as followed him!
Country men, farmers,
gentlemen, mounted and
dismounted, boys, women and
children, black and white.
Carriages, wagons and carts all
pursuing him to the President's
house. . . . What a scene did we
witness [at the White House]!
The Majesty of the People had
disappeared, and a rabble, a
mob, of boys, negros, women,
children, scrambling fighting,
romping . . . the whole house
had been inundated by the
rabble mob. . . .”
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Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia
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Chief Justice Marshall delivered the
opinion of the Court:
“This… is brought by the Cherokee Nation,
Jackson refuses to enforce
the Supreme Court Decision
praying an injunction to restrain the state
of Georgia from the execution of certain
laws of that state, which as is alleged, go
directly to annihilate the Cherokees as a
political society, and to seize, for the use
of Georgia, the lands of the nation which
have been assured to them by the United
States in solemn treaties repeatedly
made and still in force.”
“He put the man in Manifest Destiny.” from
Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, Broadway Musical, 2010
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Marvin Myers, The Jacksonian Persuasion: Politics and
Belief
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Robert V. Remini, The Jacksonian Era (American
History Series)
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Arthur Schlesinger,Jr.,The Age of Jackson
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John William Ward, Andrew Jackson: Symbol for an
Age