1. Andrew Jackson:
1828 – 1836
Era of the Common Man

2. Jackson's
First
Presidential Run

3. Election of 1824 No one got the majority of electoral votes
Election thrown into the House
Adams won
“Corrupt Bargain” split the Demo-Rep party between Jackson and Adams supporters
Democrats
Jackson supporters
National Republicans (Whigs)
Adams supporters

4. Election of 1828 Jackson vs. Adams…AGAIN!
First modern political campaign
Both sides made vicious, personal attacks
Tried to “win” the vote
Jackson aimed his campaign against the wealthy elite (Adams)
He promised to look out for the “common man”
Jacksonian Democracy: idea of spreading political power to all people and ensuring majority rule

5. Expanded Suffrage Suffrage- the right to vote
In the early 1800’s, more people gained the right to vote
States reduced voting restrictions
No more poll taxes or property requirements
Helped Jackson win in 1828

6. 1828 Election Results

7. Jackson’s Presidency Jackson supporters Issues during his presidency
Planter elite of the South
People on the Frontier
Immigrants in the cities
State Politicians
Spoils System: winning candidates give government jobs to their supporters
Issues during his presidency
States’ Rights
Role of the Bank of the United States
Status of Native Americans

8. Nullification and
Tariffs

9. Review Economy of the North Economy of the South
Fishing, shipbuilding industry and naval supplies, trade and port cities
Skilled craftsmen, shopkeepers, manufacturing (textiles, tools, metals, building materials, etc.)
Economy of the South
Large farms/plantations, cash crops
(tobacco, indigo, rice, cotton), wood
products, small farms
Slavery

10. REVIEW! REVIEW! REVIEW! What is a TARIFF?
TAX the government puts on imported goods (from other countries)
If you were a FACTORY OWNER or in MANUFACTURING , would you like tariffs?
Yes! Your products would not have an additional tax, so what you make would be cheaper than foreign goods.
If you were a FARMER, would you like tariffs?
No! You depend on foreign nations to buy your crops and in return, you buy their manufactured goods. You are afraid that tariffs will make foreign goods more expensive. If you don’t buy their goods, then they might not buy your crops.

11. Increasing Sectionalism
1820’s and 30’s- nation was divided into 3 main sections
North, South, West
During the same time Congress was arguing over 3 main issues
One of which was tariffs

12. Nullification
Tariff of Abominations (1828)- tariff that raised the price of imported factory goods by a large amount
Northern factory owners favored the new law
Southerners opposed it for several reasons:
Tariffs raised the price they paid for factory goods
High tariffs kept foreign countries from trading with the U.S. because it was more expensive
Hurt cotton sales for the South
Believed the a law that favored one section was unconstitutional
Calhoun, Vice President at the time, brought up idea of nullification- states can nullify a law if they see it as unconstitutional

13. South Carolina Threatens to Secede
Jackson understood Southerners
Signed a law that lowered the tariff in 1832 but it wasn’t enough to make them happy
South Carolina threatened to secede
Henry Clay created a compromise bill that gradually lowered the tariff until 1842
Both sides called a truce for the time

14. Jackson's
Battles
the Bank

15. Issues over the Bank Jackson was against the bank for many reasons:
Thought the bank favored wealthy Northerners
It did not help capitalists in the West
capitalists- someone investing in a business to make profit
He distrusted the bank president, Nicholas Biddle
Jackson vetoed the bill to re-charter the bank (keep it going)
Voters agreed
He was elected for a second term in 1832
He considered this economic democracy

16. Jackson's
Native-American
Policy

17. Jump Start Speaker Occasion Audience Purpose Subject Tone
Complete a basic SOAPStone on the following document:
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18. Indian Removal Jackson had little sympathy for Native Americans
Raised on the frontier
By the time he took office, only 125,000 Natives remained east of the Mississippi
Most had fallen prey to war and disease
Majority lived in the southeast
Known as the Five Civilized Tribes
Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole
Hoping to keep their lands, they adopted many European characteristics and ways of life
i.e. European clothing, owned farms, slaves, had own alphabet and newspaper
Despite the Native’s efforts to assimilate (integrate into English culture), whites decided they had to go as cotton spread west

19. Indian Removal
Indian Removal Act of authorized the president to grant the Indians unsettled lands west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their current land
Some tribes saw no other way out and gave up land
Georgia then passed a law saying that the authority of their state laws now extended over the Cherokee
Chief Justice John Marshall addressed the Indian lands question in two cases
Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia (1831)
Worcester vs. Georgia (1832)

20. Indian Removal Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia 1831
Worcester vs. Georgia 1832
Georgia tried to assert control over Cherokee land
Cherokee appealed to the Supreme Court
The Court ruled that the Cherokees were “a domestic, dependent nation”
They were subject to federal, NOT state law
Georgia law did not affect them
Georgia passed a law requiring any white person who lived on Indian territory to obtain a license from the state
Worcester, a missionary, was put in jail for failing to do so
Does a state have the power to pass laws concerning sovereign Indian nations?
The Court ruled that the Cherokee nation was “a distinct community” with “self-government” in which the laws of Georgia had no force

21. Trail of Tears ( )
Jackson and Georgia ignored the Court’s ruling
Cherokee were forced to give in and sell their land
Any that did not go voluntarily were met with military force
16,000 were gathered into camps and forced into the Indian Territory
Present day Oklahoma
More than ¼ died from exposure and starvation
Became known as the Trail of Tears