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Carole Bucy Osher Lifelong Learning - Class 4 16 February, 2016 The Temple, Nashville
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PopulationSlaves 179577,26210,585 1800105,00013,584 1810261,00044,734. 1820422,00080,107 1830682,000141,647 1840829,000183,059 18501,002,717239,459 18601,109,801275,719
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National RepublicansDemocratic Republicans (Jacksonian Democrats) John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, James K. Polk Business owners, Southern planters, former New England ex-Federalists “the common man”, former Jeffersonians Support a strong activist federal government (Federalists light) Advocates for a limited national government (Libertarians light) Want government to spend money on public schools & moral reforms Supported sectionalism, states rights & federal restraint in economic & social affairs Want federal involvement at all levels Support only the bare minimum of federal involvement in anything
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National RepublicansDemocratic Republicans (Jacksonian Democrats) Supported the Bank of the U. S.Opposed the Bank of the U.S. Advocates of federal spending for projects to benefit the entire country: roads, bridges, canals, & other public improvements Opposed to federal spending for projects within states – including those that crossed state lines (interstate) Support tariffs & manufacturingOppose high protective tariffs Support federal subsidies for the arts, literature, and science Art, literature, science? You’ve got to be kidding! Nationalistic VisionFavored the liberty of the individual – on guard against the inroads of privilege into the government
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St. Louis Art Museum - George Caleb Bingham’s “Verdict of the People” Source of image: https://commons.wikimedia.org
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Source: www.cerebro.com
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Source: www.onealwebsite.com
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https://randall120.wordpress.com
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Source: www.u-s-history.com Source: www.encyclopedia.com
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Source: www.thismatter.com
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Anti-Masonic Party
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William Morgan
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A New Political Party Emerges The Whigs
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Source: Library of Congress; www.loc.gov
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Source: www.mappinghistory.uoregon.edu
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Clay’s National Republicans Webster’s New England Ex-Federalists States’ Rights Southerners Anti-Masonic Party
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Cheekwood – painting by Ralph E. W. Earl – Source: www.tnportraits.org
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Source: www.columbia.edu/itc/history/foner The Liberty Party nominated James G. Birney, an abolitionist. Birney received 7069 votes in 1840
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Source: www.whitehouse.gov Image in Public Domain
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1847 stamps
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1848 Election- the Whig Zachary Taylor 1850 – Millard Fillmore 1852 – Franklin Pierce 1856 – James Buchanan 1860 Abraham Lincoln
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Source: www.regentsprep.org
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Source: www.slideshare.net
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It needs not a Prophet or talker To tell you in prose or in verse, The exploits of Patriot Walker Whom Tyrants will long deem a curse—
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Source: Historical Society of Pennsylvania website
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