Jacksonian Democracy

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Jacksonian Democracy

• Part 1

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I. The Peoples President
www.reformation.org/president-jackson.html

• 1. From a poor family
• 2. Military hero
• a. Battle of New Orleans
• 3. Supporter of Jeffersons ideas
• a. advocate for common people

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II. The Spoils System
teachers.henrico.k12.va.us/highlandsprings/st...

• 1. Dismissed old government officials
• a. Replaced them with his friends
• -Jacksons Kitchen Cabinet
• b. Rotation in Office
• -new officials will be loyal to the
  President
• -fresh officials can better serve the
  people
• Spoils-
• -prize taken in battle
• -Jackson won the battle
• -(election)
• -took the prize
• -(selection of officials)

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III. Indian Removal Why?

• 1. Jackson was a famous Native Fighter
• a. Believed Natives were
• uncivilized inferior
• b. Believed the land in
• Georgia belonged to
• American citizens

www.americanindian.ucr.edu/.../deeds.html
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III. Indian Removal Why? Continued
http//www.historycentral.com/Ant/Indianrem.html

• c. Gold discovered within
• Cherokee Nation GA
• d. Americans wanted gold
• e. Cherokee Nation refused
• denied American Prospectors
• f. Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia
• g. Chief Justice John Marshall
• -Cherokees have rights to
• and control over the land
• h. Jacksons Indian Removal Acts
• -Removes Cherokee Creek
• tribes anyway
• -Trail of Tears

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IV. Trail of Tears

• 1. Forced removal of 7 Native Tribes
• a. From Georgia to Oklahoma
• b. Dead of winter
• c. Foot and horseback
• -resisters shackled
• d. 4,000 out of 15,000 died