Jacksonian Democracy

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Jacksonian Democracy
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• the humble members of society the farmer,
  mechanics, and laborershave a right to complain
  of the injustice of their government.
  A.Jacksons Inaugural

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Democracy grows

• Becoming respectable
• Electing people like THEM
• Universal white manhood suffrage
• Caucuses vs. Conventions
• Involvement

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Concerns of the people

• The Bank
• Currency
• Slavery
• era of good feelings short lived!
• Sectionalism v. Nationalism

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Election of 1824

• All Dem-Republicans
• Andrew Jackson Tenn.
• Hero of New Orleans
• Ran against King Caucus
• Self-made man
• 99 electoral college votes

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• Henry Clay
• Harry of the West
• The Great Compromiser
• Speaker of the H of Reps
• American System
• 37 electoral College votes

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• 3. John Q. Adams
• Northeast
• Nationalist
• Sec. Of State
• Educated, much experience
• cold fish
• 84 electoral votes

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4. William Crawford GAIll, states rts/strict
const.41 electoral votes

• No clear majority (133).
• 12th Amendment says top 3 vote getters go to
  House of Reps.
• VP is John C. Calhoun
• The Corrupt Bargain

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John Quincy Adams 6

• Serious nationalist
• No political skills
• Sided with Cherokees
• 1828 Tariff of Abominations
• 1828 election loses to AJ
• Runs for House of Reps

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Andrew Jackson 7

• Old Hickory
• Let the people rule
• from the snobs to the mobs Hickoryites
• Growing power of west
• True anti-federalist

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Leader of King Mob

• Wanted government to be that simple machine the
  constitution created.
• to the victors go the spoils
• well greased political machine
• Kitchen Cabinet

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The Moneyed Monster

• Tolerated it until
• 1832 vs Clay as Nat. Rep
• Bank re-charter 4 years early
• Nicholas Biddle
• To veto or not to veto
• The bank is killing me!

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Results

• pet banks
• No regulation
• Specie Circular
• West is cash starved
• Clay loses big time

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Tariffs and Sectionalism

• 1828 Tariff of Abominations
• SC flags at half-mast
• The South Carolina Exposition Calhoun
• Call for states rights
• False alarm

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• Webster-Haynes Debates
• 1830
• People not states had framed the constitution
• Courts not states last word
• Liberty AND Union now and forever, one and
  inseparable.

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• The gauntlet thrown 1830
• Jackson Our Union, it must be preserved.
• Calhoun The Union next to our liberty, the
  most dear.
• Calhoun resigns comes back as Senator

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• Nullification Crisis
• Tariff of 1832
• SCs special convention
• null and void
• Force Bill
• Clays Tariff of 1833
• Calhoun First President of Southern Confederacy

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The Indians

• 5 Civilized Tribes Creeks, Choctaw, Chickasaw,
  Cherokees, Seminoles
• GA, gold, Supreme Court Marshall has made his
  decision now let him enforce it!

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• Indian Removal Act of 1830
• Indian Territory
• 100,000
• Land bought for 9 mil but charged 6 mil to move
• Trail of Tears 1/3 die

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• Seminole Wars (1835-42)
• Osceola
• Guerrilla warfare
• Flag of truce ignored
• 4/5 head to Oklahoma
• 300 head to swamps

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Martin Van Buren 8

• 1836 Dem. Van Buren vs. Whigs (3, Why?)
• a first class second rate man but handpicked
• 1837 economic slump
• Van Ruin blamed but not his fault

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William Henry Harrison 9

• 1840 election of public relations slogans and
  supposed appearances Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!
• Whigs Harrison vs. Dem. Van Buren (Ruin)
• Whigs hope to bring back nationalistic ideas
  dies with Harrison.
• Tyler 10 will disappoint