1. JACKSONIAN ERA

2. AGE OF JACKSON: ELECTION OF 1824
CANDIDATES
NORTHEAST
SOUTH
WEST
ISSUES
RESULTS: “Corrupt Bargain” ??
PRESIDENCY OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Did not believe public opinion should influence government policies. ???
Created the Department of the Interior
1st to hold regular Presidential News Conferences
Signed the Tariff of 1828 (Tariff of Abominations)
Proposed: (failed to pass)
National Observatory
National University

3. MARKET REVOLUTION: 1805-1830 TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTION:
RIVER TRAFFIC—STEAM BOAT
ROAD CONSTRUCTION
TOLL ROADS
TURNPIKES
NATIONAL ROAD
CANALS
ERIE CANAL
RAILROADS
PETER COOPER
“BEST FRIEND OF CHARLESTON”
RISE OF NEW YORK CITY
INDUSTRIALIZATION:
TEXTILES—Samuel Slater, Moses Brown
CORPORATIONS
LABOR SYSTEMS
WALTHAM-LOWELL
RHODE ISLAND SYSTEM
ORGANIZED LABOR

4. OTHER FACTORS THAT LED TO AN EXPANDING AMERICAN ECONOMY 1815-1840
1. POPULATION GROWTH
IMMIGRATION
2. AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
CHEAP LAND
URBAN MARKETS
UPLAND COTTON (SOUTH)
3. LUMBERING BUSINESS
BUILDING MATERIALS
PAPER PRODUCTS
4. FUR TRADE
JOHN JACOB ASTOR
“MOUNTAIN MEN”
5. FISHING
NE: WHALING
CHESAPEAKE: CRABS
GULF COAST: SHRIMPING
6. TRADE WITH SPANISH (1820S)
WEST TEXAS, NEW MEXICO

5. AMERICA’S CULTURAL CHANGES 1810S-1860S
2ND GREAT AWAKENING:
Frontier religious movement
Charles Finney
Rise of Methodism, Presbyterianism and Baptists
Christianizing the slaves.
TRANSCENDENTALISM:
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau
REFORM MOVEMENTS:
Education
Utopians
Treatment of the insane
Feminism
Prison reform
Arts and Literature

6. “ERA OF THE COMMON MAN” JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY
ELECTION OF 1828
CANDIDATES
ISSUES: Tariff of Abominations, Corrupt Bargain, personalities
RESULTS
CALHOUN’S “SC EXPOSITION AND PROTEST”
ANDREW JACKSON’S ADMINISTRATION
“COMMON MAN” JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY V. JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRACY
SPOILS SYSTEM “KITCHEN CABINET” (Eaton Affair)
MAJOR ISSUES:
1. NULLIFICATION CRISIS
TARIFF OF 1828
TARIFF OF 1832
NOV. 1832—SC NULLIFIED THE TARIFF, EFFECTIVE FEB. 1, 1833
Jackson stated…nullification is disunion and disunion is treason.
SC Governor—”If we don’t win over tariffs, then we will lose over slavery”.
Militia groups openly trained expecting an attack by Jackson.
JAN. 1833—FORCE BILL
JAN. 1833– TARIFF COMPROMISE OF 1833
2. BANK WAR
2nd B.U.S. chartered in Both a public and private bank in one.
McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819—declared the Bank constitutional.
Panic of 1819—Jackson developed dislike and hatred for all banks.
Gen. WinfieldScott

7. MAJOR ISSUES CONTINUED
1823 Nicholas Biddle—Pres. of the 2nd B.U.S.
Aristocratic, elitist
Foreign investors
Used the 2nd B.U.S. as a tool to control reckless banking.
Small state banks were printing “unbacked” Bank Notes (reckless banking)
Threaten Bank runs.
New Bank Bill introduced rd Bank of US-- Henry Clay
Veto
Election of 1832
“Bank War”
Pet Banks
Reckless Loaning
Inflationary spiral
Panic of 1837
3. INDIAN REMOVAL
INDIAN REMOVAL ACT 1830
TREATY OF DANCING RABBIT CREEK-1830
REMOVAL OF THE CHEROKEE
1829 GEORGIA STATE LAW
1829 CHIEF JOHN ROSS — CHEROKEE NATION V. GA, 1829
WORCESTER V. GEORGIA, 1832
TRAIL OF TEARS
BLACK HAWK WAR

8. VAN BUREN’S ADMINISTRATION 1837-1841
ELECTION OF 1836
NEW PARTY—”WHIGS”
ELECTION STRATEGY
CANDIDATES
VAN BUREN’S ADMINISTRATION
INHERITED FROM JACKSON’S PRESIDENCY
SEMINOLE WAR
ANNEXATION OF TEXAS

9. Aroostook War (Potato War)1838-39 The Amistad Trial 1838 Panic of 1837
Van Buren continued:
“Caroline Affair” 1837
Aroostook War (Potato War)
The Amistad Trial 1838
Panic of 1837
Election of “Log Cabin Campaign”
Candidates
Issues/campaign
Results