Andrew Jackson

MORE DEMOCRACY!  More suffrage, or the right to vote,  21  Candidates chosen in National Party Conventions, instead of caucuses (private meetings)  Candidates adopted platforms, or statements of beliefs as well as ideas  Electoral college members chose by public primaries instead of by state legislatures

Kitchen Cabinet  Unofficial advisors or friends

Spoils System  Giving government jobs to friends, family, and political supporters “To the victor, goes the spoils”

Worcester v. Georgia Case  Georgia wants to remove Indians from their land Decision  John Marshall rules the Cherokees are a separate nation & didn’t have to leave Georgia b/c they (Indians) had a FEDERAL treaty

Trail of Tears  Forceful removal of Indians from Georgia to Oklahoma

States Rights – 1828  Vice President John C. Calhoun  “Tariff of Abominations”  Doctrine of Nullification 1.Nullify the law, would not be enforced within the state 2.The state would have the right to secede (withdraw) from the union. 40% TAX!!!

States Rights – 1832  Declaring the tariffs to be null and void, secede from the union  Treasonous, Hang Calhoun, send federal troops into S. Carolina  Force Bill of 1833  the Great Compromiser, repealed  SSSW

SSSW STATES RIGHTS SECTIONALISM WESTWARD EXPANSION SLAVERY

Second Bank of the U.S.  Henry Clay & Daniel Webster  Nicholas Biddle

 State banks & farmers  Vetoed the charter  Jackson vs. Clay

 Pet banks  NYC  King Andrew  they felt that Jackson had gained too much power

RESULTS  Whig Party  American system, protective tariff, federal system, national currency  England  Martin Van Buren; “Old Tippecanoe”  Harrison dies; John Tyler Harrison Van Buren J. Tyler