Nationalism & Sectionalism Topic 10 Nationalism & Sectionalism

APUSH PowerPoint #4.2 (Part 3 of 3) Unit #4 – Overlapping Revolutions Chapters 7-8 BFW Textbook TOPIC – Nationalism & Sectionalism [1816-1825]

VII. One Party Politics

A. The Candidates The Candidates Spark Sectionalism a. John Quincy Adams (Massachusetts) b. William Crawford (Georgia) c. Henry Clay (Kentucky) d. Andrew Jackson (Tennessee)

B. The System for Nomination The Election Has No Winner Decided by the House of Representatives

C. The Issue of Candidates a. Only the top three candidates of the race could be voted on by the House of Representatives (Jackson, Adams, and Crawford). b. Crawford dropped out due to health reasons.

D. Outcome of the Race The Race is Decided a. Henry Clay backed John Quincy Adams because of personal feelings toward Andrew Jackson. b. Jackson won majority of electoral vote and claimed he should have been chosen.

E. Charges of a Corrupt Bargain The “Corrupt Bargain” a. Speaker of the House Henry Clay became the Secretary of State under Adams. b. Jacksonian supporters Claim a “Corrupt Bargain.”

VIII. Presidency of John Quincy Adams

President John Quincy Adams 6th President 1825—1829 Party: National-Republican Home State: Massachusetts Vice President: John C. Calhoun

President John Quincy Adams Domestic Election of 1824 decided by the House of Representatives Accused of a “Corrupt Bargain” by Jacksonians Nicknamed “Old man Eloquent” Foreign Political Revolutions in Mexico and South America occurred during presidency.

A. Adam’s Character & Plans No to Patronage Nationalist (More Hamiltonian than Hamilton) Domestic Proposals - National University - Scientific Explorations - Funding Internal Improvements

B. Adam’s Mistakes Tariff of 1828

Presidential Election of 1828

A. Opposition to Jackson Presidential Election of 1828- a. The race was heated as both Jacksonians and supporters of Adams traded negative ads in newspapers. b. The challenger, Jackson carried the South and the West, while the incumbent Adams carried New England. c. Jackson easily won the presidency.

B. Jackson’s Appeal Appeal to the Commoner

C. Extension of Suffrage Male Suffrage

D. Domestic Needs

E. Outcome of the Election of 1828

Making Connections – Topic 10 Thomas Jefferson referred to the Missouri Compromise as a “firebell in the night.” He was right. The controversy over the expansion of slavery, introduced here, will reappear.

Making Connections – Topic 10 John Quincy Adams’s National Republicans, who could trace some of their ideology to the Federalists, will be at the core of the Whig coalition that opposed Jackson in Topic 11.

Making Connections – Topic 10 Several of the issues on which the nation united during the “Era of Good Feelings” – the bank and the protective tariff– will become much more divisive, as discussed in the next chapter.