1. Democracy in America

2. What were the social bases for the flourishing democracy of the early mid-nineteenth century?

3. What efforts were made in this period to strengthen the economic integration of the nation?

4. In what ways did Andrew Jackson embody the democratic nationalism of this period?

5. What were the major expressions of nationalism and sectionalism in this period?
Why was the Bank War so central to the Jacksonian period?

7. David Crockett 1818 Justice of the Peace 1821and 1823 State Legislator
127, 1829 and1833 US House of Representatives

9. Bragged about skill as bear hunter
Ridiculed fancy dress of his opponents
Condemned closed-door political caucuses
Praised grass roots democracy

10. “I can out-shoot, out-drink, and out-debate anyone who opposes me
“I can out-shoot, out-drink, and out-debate anyone who opposes me.” -David Crockett

11. “Yes fellow citizens, I can run faster, walk longer, leap higher, speak better, and tell bigger lies than my competitor, and all his friends, any day of his life.” -David Crockett

12. Beginning with Kentucky 1792, western states began to relax or abolish property requirements for adult male voters.

13. Vocabulary changed: Candidates hit the campaign trail, gave stump speeches along the way, and supported their party’s platform with its planks (positions on the issues). As candidates they supported pork-barrel projects that would benefit their constituents at home.

14. Stump Speaking (1850) George Caleb Bingham

15. Stump Speaking (1850) George Caleb Bingham

17. In America, where the privileges of birth never existed and where riches confer no peculiar rights on their possessors, men unacquainted with one another are very ready to frequent the same places and find neither peril nor advantage in the free interchange of their thoughts.
~Alexis DeTocqueville, Democracy in America

18. David Crockett became known as Davy Crockett Tommy Jefferson?

19. 1790= 100,000 Americans lived west of App. Mtns. 1840= 7 million

20. Westerners attacked centralized, eastern-based institutions of wealth and privilege

21. Western Settlers Scorned
the privately held Second Bank of the US
Federally sponsored internal improvements (turnpikes and canals)

22. Supported Andrew Jackson
Person who would battle the eastern financiers
Support white settler’s claims to Indian lands
Represented that ordinary people would have a political voice and access to economic opportunities.

23. Jackson’s campaign began the day the 1824 election was settled and continued until 1828!

24. Republican Party Split
National Republicans
Democratic Republicans

25. Rally Cries for Jackson
“Bargain and Corruption!”
“Huzza for Jackson!”
“All Hail Old Hickory!”

26. Jackson no frontier man, but a wealthy planter!

27. Mudslinging of 1828 Election
“General Jackson’s mother was a Common Prostitute, brought to this country by the British soldiers! She afterwards married a Mulatto man with whom she had several children of which number General Jackson is one.”
-anti-Jackson newspaper

28. “Oh no he didn’t!”

29. Jackson convinced these accusations killed her!
Rachel Jackson
Bigamist?
Adulteress?
Jackson convinced these accusations killed her!

30. Adams Critics

31. “gaming tables” “gambling furniture” for the “presidential palace”

33. Presidential Elections 1824= 25% eligible voters participated 1828= 50%

35. Inauguration Gala for President Jackson 1829

36. “On their arrival at the White House, the motley crowd clamored for refreshments and soon drained the barrels of punch, which had been prepared, in drinking to the health of the new Chief magistrate. A great deal of glassware was broken, and the East Room was filled with a noisy mob.”

37. Limits on democracy? Contradictions?

38. Rise of social classes?
Business and factory managers received salaries, not wages
Wives were full-time homemakers and mothers

39. The Lady's Magazine, or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated solely to their Use and Amusement, 1823

40. Age of the Common Man Full of contradictions
Jackson Indian fighter, yet adopted Indian boy
Foe of privilege, yet owned slaves
Self-professed champion of farmers and artisans, yet expressed contempt for their reps. In Congress
Expanded the power of the Executive branch.

41. 1820s Contradictions
National leaders pursued a more democratic form of politics and supported a system based on class and racial differences.