 If you did not pick up a court case packet please get one from the green table.  Pick up the paper on the front stool.  Read or re-read MCCulloch v. Maryland  Write in your notebook what the case was about and the outcome  Read or re-read Gibbons v. Ogden  Write in your notebook what the case was about and the out come  The court case was about…  The outcome was…

 You give maximum intellectual effort  You are respectful of me and of each other  You listen to me for directions and to know when to talk  You keep your voice level at a conversational tone

 We will learn to identify the importance of Andrew Jackson’s election to the “Common Man”  I will analyze a political cartoon and depict Jackson’s importance to expanded suffrage. (O.P.T.I.C.)

 France sends Alexis de Tocqueville to America to observe the prison system  He is amazed at  the American Democratic Spirit and  the goals of equality and freedom.  Calls America the greatest experiment in History  He goes back to France and writes the book Democracy in America (bestseller)

 American populations move to the frontier  Voting rights are extended to lower classes

 4 Candidates running  John Quincy Adams: supported by New England  Henry Clay: Supported in West  Andrew Jackson: Supported in West  William Crawford: Supported in the South Everyone should vote for Adams! (I want to be Secretary of State!) That’s corrupt!!! BOOOOO O!

 Son of John Adams (former president)  Very Wealthy and well known family  Graduate of Harvard  Adams is accused of cheating (never proved)

 Parents were poor farmers  He was a war hero from the War of 1812 after the Battle of New Orleans  “Old hickory”  Common Man  Self-made man

 No clear winner.  Election resolved in the House of Representatives  Henry Clay got his supporters to vote for Adams and after Adams became president he made Clay Secretary of State.  Jackson’s supporters said they made a corrupt bargain

 Becomes 6 th President  Wanted to improve education and roads  Because of his unpopularity, was unable to accomplish anything

 Rematch of the Election of 1824  lots of mudslinging (name calling)  Adams is called an “aristocrat”  Jackson is called a “dangerous military chief”

 Andrew Jackson defeats John Quincy Adams  The first “Frontier” President  Jackson represented the common man  First time the common man could vote  Sadly, in December his wife dies suddenly  Jackson vows never to forgive those who said bad things about her

 Thousands of country folks travel to Washington D.C. to watch Jackson be sworn in at president  Many drink the night away (even on the lawn of the White House) Jackson’s inauguration

 Whig party were supporters of Adams (former Federalists, businessmen and wealthy plantation owners)  Democrats were supporters of Jackson (farmers and blue collar workers)

 Jackson immediately fires government employees  Hires his friends to replace them  “To the victors goes the spoils”

 Jackson rewards his supporters by putting them in his Cabinet (even though they were unqualified)  Jackson seldom met with his Cabinet  Relied on the advice of his friends  This group became know as the “kitchen cabinet”

 Thought US Bank was too powerful  Congress (led by Whigs) tried to save the bank with a renewal bill  Jackson vetoed the bill  Jackson takes all federal money out and puts it in state banks  The Bank closes Jackson Fights the Bank

 Jackson believed in the power of the federal government  Vice President John C. Calhoun believed in State’s Rights  They argued over tariffs

 Tariff is a tax on imported goods  Congress passed a new tariff in 1828 that was the highest in history  South hated tariffs because they traded with Europe and cost them more Tariff Crisis

 Calhoun called the tariffs an abomination  Calhoun called for all Southern states to nullify (erase) the tariffs  Calhoun resigned as Vice President I quit!! But I’ll get you back Andrew Jackson!!!

 Congress lowers the tariffs  Southern states still mad and South Carolina threatened to secede (break apart from the US)  Congress lowers tariffs again  A threat of a civil war  Historians call this the Nullification Crisis South Carolina Threatens to Secede Lower the Tariff or say goodbye to South Carolina!!

 Jackson lowers the tariffs  Jackson asks Congress to pass The Force Bill to send an army to the South, if necessary  South agrees  Crisis over Pay the tariff or else! Okay

 The Nullification Crisis was about states’ rights  Southern states believed they had the right to nullify a federal law  What about slavery?  North and South begin to take sides on the issue… states’ rights will lead to the Civil War

 Because of the good soil, settlers began moving South and West  Five major Indian tribes live in the South  Numerous bloody conflicts break out between Indians and white settlers

 Indian tribes forced to move west of the Mississippi river (present day Oklahoma)  Cherokee sue Jackson & Supreme Court rule for the Cherokee (Jackson refuses to obey) Cherokee v. Georgia  The journey became known as the “Trail of Tears”  4,000 died

 Seminoles in Florida hide in the swamps  The United States military is in called in to remove the Seminoles

 The Seminoles are defeated by the US Army  The costliest war to gain Indian land  Cost 40 million dollars

 Some called him King Andrew because he acted like a king than a president  The common man felt he had a leader  Jackson used his power to  End the National Bank  End the Nullification Crisis without civil war  Force Native Americans westward  Many memorials to him in the South