1. America from 1820 to 1845

2. Andrew Jackson Killed the National Bank Indian Removal
Nullification Crisis

3. Martin Van Buren Democratic 1837-1841 Panic of 1837 Jackson’s VP
Huge Depression followed…
No tools (bank) to deal with depression.
Made him unpopular

4. William Henry Harrison
A Whig (the new Federalist party)
1841
68 yrs old when took oath
Gave 2 hour inaugural address in rain
Died one month later of pneumonia

5. John Tyler
Whig
But made Whigs mad by supporting States Rights
Vetoed his own party’s entire agenda
Very Unpopular

6. John Tyler Very prolific parent 15 children Had son at 63
That son at 75
Grandson still alive….

7. John Tyler Very prolific parent 15 children Had son at 63
That son at 75
Grandson still alive….

8. Many New/Improved Inventions & Technologies
Telegraph
Railroad
Canals
Interchangeable parts
Reaper
Plow

9. Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America (1835)

10. Antebellum Culture Sources of Reform
Romanticism – man has innate goodness
Transcendentalists – intuition is basis for knowledge
Protestant Revivalism (2nd Great Awakening)
Temperance
Public Schools and higher education
Prison Reform
Feminism - Seneca Falls Movement
Abolitionist movement

11. Antebellum Culture Life in the North
Growth of cities (5% in 1790; 25% in 1860)
Problems with large cities….
Industry
Factories
Technology – interchangeable parts
Unions
Social Unrest

12. Antebellum Culture Life in the South Classes Slavery
Planters
Yeoman farmers
Slaves
Poor whites
Slavery
Mainly agricultural