1. and the Era of Jacksonian Democracy
ANDREW JACKSON
and the Era of Jacksonian Democracy

2. Transformation of American Politics
Democratic Fervor universal male suffrage, electoral vote shift, nominating caucus to convention
Election of 1824 “corrupt bargain”: Adams, Jackson, Crawford and Clay
John Quincy Adams supported internal improvements; delegation to Latin America
Jackson & Van Buren from Republican to Democrat

3. Election of 1828 the murdering, drunken adulterer vs
Election of 1828 the murdering, drunken adulterer vs. the rich, silk underwear wearing pimp
Rotation in Office Spoils System
Maysville Road Bill veto
Indian Removal Act (1830)
Cherokee v. Georgia (1831) not a foreign nation; no right to sue
Worcester v. Georgia (1832) Georgia has no authority in tribal territory
“Old Hickory” sworn into office

4. Jackson vs. Calhoun Tariff of Abominations, 1828
Nullification Crisis South Carolina Exposition and Protest , slavery
Peggy Eaton Affair
Olive Branch and the Sword: Compromise Tariff and Force Bill (1833)

5. War on the Bank
The Bank Veto Panic of 1819, privilege and class, lending capacity, stockholders, Philly not DC
Election of 1832 Jackson 219, Clay 49 electoral votes
Nicholas Biddle President of the Bank
“Pet Banks” 1836 Deposit Act; Hard-money vs. Soft-money Democrats

6. Capitalism Debated What sort of society would the US become?
Swift economic development at the price of allowing some people to get rich quickly while others languished? (paper money and speculation)
Modest growth in traditional molds anchored by “honest” manual work and frugality? (specie and regulation)

7. Emergence of the Whig Party
Constituents: South pro-nullification, internal improvements; North pro-reform; Anti-Masonry
Election of 1836 Van Buren 170 electoral votes; Whig split four candidates
Panic of 1837 “pet banks”; Specie Circular; Britain held specie; Independent Treasury Bill (1840)
Election of 1840 Tippencanoe and Tyler, too “Log Cabins and Hard Cider”

8. Or “the greatest man of his age”?
King Andrew?
“Democracy does not give people the most skillful government, but it produces what the ablest governments are frequently unable to create: namely, an all-pervading and restless activity.”
~Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America
Or “the greatest man of his age”?

9. Rise of Popular Religion
The Second Great Awakening Revivals vs. Unitarians, Methodists, Burned-Over Districts (Charles Finney), Timothy Dwight (Yale Calvinists)
Mormonism Joseph Smith (Book of Mormon), Brigham Young (Salt Lake)
Shakers Mother Ann Lee

10. Transcendentalism Mystical and intuitive Discovery of one’s inner self
Seeking the essence of God in nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The American Scholar”
Harvard, 1837
Henry David Thoreau
Walden, 1854
“On Civil Disobedience”

11. Brook Farm, Massachusetts, 1841
“a more natural union between intellectual and manual labor” – George Ripley Ralph Emerson Margaret Fuller feminist Nathaniel Hawthorne novelist

12. Social Reform Temperance Public School Abolitionism Women’s Rights
Penitentiaries and Asylums
Utopian Communities
Dorothea Dix
Horace Mann
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Wm Lloyd Garrison