Good/Bad????
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 Universal Male Suffrage
 Party Nominating Conventions
 Popular Election of President
 Two-Party System
 Rise of Third Parties
 More Elected Offices
 Popular Campaigning
 Spoils System and Rotation of Officeholders
 In war, victors seize the spoils or wealth of defeated

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 Democratic-Republican Candidates: John Quincy
Adams, Henry Clay, William Crawford, and Andrew
Jackson
 The “Era of Good Feelings” under Monroe has ended…
 “Corrupt Bargain”
 President John Quincy Adams: Dissatisfaction with
“tariff of abominations.”
 Mudslinging to win Election of 1828

 Presidential Power
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 Limit fed. Power/national debt
 Vetoed 12 bills
 Peggy Eaton Affair
 Indian Removal Act (1830)
 Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
 Not a foreign nation with right to sue
 Worcester v. Georgia
 Georgia had no force in Cherokee territory
 Trail of Tears
 Nullification Crisis and the Force Bill
 Bank Veto

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 http://www.schooltube.com/video/10ab73bc9f1d4dc89014
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 Viewpoint 1: Indian Should Be Removed to the West (1829,
1830) by Andrew Jackson
 Viewpoint 2: Indians Should Be Allowed to Remain in Their
Homeland (1830) by Cherokee Nation
 For each position complete the following:
 Thesis of Argument/Opinion for each perspective
 Summary of each Main Point (at least 5)
 Stronger Argument and Why?

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 Group A: Share your Thesis and 5 main points with evidence
 Each group member must share
 Group B: Counter their 5 main points with evidence
 Each group member must share
 Group A: Conclusion/Final Points
 Each group member must share
Who had the stronger argument and why?
Final Vote

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 Supporters of Jackson: Democrats (Republican party of Jefferson)
 Leading Rival was Clay: Whigs (Federalist party of
Hamilton)
 Westward Expansion and Industrial Economy

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 Sought to destroy the National Bank
 Pet Banks: States banks
 Speculation in western lands
 Prices for land/goods inflated
 Species Circular: Required federal lands be purchased with gold/silver
 Panic of 1837

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 President Van Buren and the Panic of 1837
 Banks closed their doors
 Whigs blames laissez-fair economics of Dem.
 Whigs Campaign of 1840: “Tippecanoe and Tyler too”
 Jacksonian Era comes to an end with the Mexican
War and the issue of slavery on the rise

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• Background Readings
• Feared strong central gov.
• Believed property requirement for voting was a test of character
• Believed educated elite should rule, but proposed education for all to prepare the poorer individuals for public office
• Presidential candidates were chosen by a meeting of party leaders
• Chosen class was the yeoman farmers
• Feared the consequences of industrialization
• Corporate charters were granted to favorites of state legislation and often implied monopoly rights to a business

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• Originally disagreed with loose interpretation of the elastic clause
• Owned slaves, saw them as an evil that time would remove
• Republican womanhood, didn't see women or American
Indians as equal to men
• Believed education was necessary to hold office and for preparing citizens for participation in a democracy
• Believed education and ambition were keys to success
• Agreed with religious reform

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• Eliminated property requirements for voting
• Believed all men were qualified to hold office and that political positions should be rotated, spoils system
• Chose presidential candidates through nominating campaigns
• Chosen class was yeoman farmers, planters, laborers, and mechanics
• Believed industrialization was essential to the progression of
American industry
• Believed corporate charters should be available to all who chose to risk starting a business

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• Believed the bank was a monopoly of the rich, hated it
• Owned slaves and had little interest in abolishment
• Didn't see women or American Indians as equals to men
• EXTERMELY negative attitude against American Indians
• Believed education was relatively unimportant
• Ended bank and control over credit
• Believed economic progress came from social mobility
• Disagreed with religious reform

 Using your knowledge of both Jefferson and Jackson, determine whether Jefferson or Jackson supported each viewpoint on the key issues by completing the chart.