WARM UP

If you were elected

President who
would you appoint
to your cabinet?

The Age of Jackson

The Election of 1824

The Corrupt Bargain

The Candidates
Andrew Jackson- West
John Quincy Adams- North
Henry Clay- West
William Crawford- South
Jackson won the popular
vote, but no candidate won
the electoral vote.
1824 Election Map
http://www.presidentelect.org/e1824.html

The vote went to the House

of Representatives who
picked from the top twoJackson and Adams.

Clay used his position as

Speaker of the House to
help elect Adams. After
Adams became President
he then appointed Clay
Secretary of State.

Who will you

vote for?

Adams!

ELECTION OF 1824
Jackson gets most votes
but Adams wins because of
Corrupt Bargain
Jackson is credited with
being the founder of the
Democratic Political Party

Political Parties
The Democrat Party as we know it today began
with the election of Jackson.
Two Party System
1790s-2000s
Federalist 1790s-1815

Democratic Republicans 1790s

Republican 1820s
National Republican (Whig)
Republican - 1854
today

Jacksonian Democrat
Democrat 1830s
today

John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson

faced each other again in the 1828 election.

Jackson won by a
landslide.
1828 Election Map
http://www.presidentelect.org/e1828.
html

Jackson wins BIG.. the

Common Man could vote
because they got rid of the
land ownership requirement
BIG DIF: All MEN could
now vote

The Growth Of Democracy

Jacksons victory
was due to the fact
that white males,
21 or older, who
did not own
property, could
now vote.

Voting Rights (5:11)

This allowed for the

extension of
democracy to more
people.

Man of the People (4:35)

Washingtons Inauguration

Outside the White House

after Jacksons Inauguration

Washington and
his Cabinet

s Spoils System Expands Democracy

Spoils - benefits
gained by the
winner, Jackson
viewed this as a way
to involve the
Common Man in
governing the
United States.

SPOILS SYSTEM
Jackson gave jobs to
Unqualified Common
Men (his political
supporters)

They were known as a rough

group. The Common Man
debates.

Jacksons Legacy
How did the election of Andrew
Jackson in 1828 expand democracy in
the United States?

What is the major difference

between voting requirements in
the Federalist Era and the
Jacksonian Era?

The Bank of the United States

The Bank of the U.S.

was part of
Federalist Alexander
Hamiltons Financial
Plan.
The Banks purpose
was to regulate
Americas economy.

Jackson thought the Bank was too powerful.

Jackson thought Bank president Nicholas
Biddle and Bank administrators used the
Bank for their own profit, at the expense of
the Common Man.

The Bank cut back on

loans which hurt farmers,
the Common Man, in the
West.
Because of this Jackson
vowed, I will kill it!
He vetoed the Banks
charter when it was up for
renewal.

Jackson thought the Bank

was too powerful and
corrupt. Bank took
advantage of the
Common Man

Jackson killed the bank

by vetoing the Charter

The Nullification Crisis

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Nullification Crisis and the Tariff Laws (5:54)

Congress passed the Tariff

Bill of 1828 which was the
highest import tax ever.

This was a protective

tariff, a tax on imports
aimed at protecting
Northern industry. This
increased tariffs on goods
from Europe.

This protective tariff hurt

Southern planters because
they depended on trade
with Europe.

The high tariff meant

Southerners still sold their
cotton to Europe, but paid
more for European imports.

TARIFF of
ABOMINATIONS
Tax that hurt the South
and the Common Man
South Carolina said they
wont pay

Southerners called the

Tariff of 1828 the Tariff of
Abominations. An
abomination is something
hated.
Vice President John C.
Calhoun was from South
Carolina and, like most
Southerners, believed in
the idea of States
Rights.

States Rights is the

belief that states have
right to limit the power of
the federal government.

Nullify means

South Carolina passed

the Nullification Act and
declared the tariff illegal.
cancel.

South Carolina threatened

to secede if the tariff was
not lifted.

Secede means withdraw.

What are Jacksons
options?

NULLIFICATION
CRISIS
Vice Prez John Calhoun and
South Carolina nullified it
claiming States Rights. Said
they would Secede from the
Union if forced to pay

Henry Clay
designed a
compromise that
lowered the tariff
but gave the
president more
power to use
force if a state
threatened to
secede. Predict
any future
implications of
this force
measure.

The Trail of Tears

Trail of Tears

In a desire to attract
more settlers, Georgia
began moving Native
Americans west and
offering their lands for
sale. Some Americans
objected to this practice.
However, Jackson
believed he did not have
the power as president to
interfere with Georgias
rights and stop the
removal.

One Way

Jackson pushed the Indian Removal Act

through Congress. This act gave the
president the power to move Native
Americans west of the Mississippi River.

INDIAN REMOVAL ACT

Jackson got it passed to
clear land for white settlers
and move Indians west of
the Mississippi River to
sparsely populated areas in
Indian Territory

But the Cherokee nation

refused to move and took
their case to the U.S.
Supreme Court. In
Worcester v. Georgia, the
Court ruled in favor of the
Cherokees.

However, President
Jackson refused to
enforce the Courts
ruling.
What might happen
today if a President
refused to enforce
a Supreme Court
verdict?

Worchester v Georgia
Supreme Court ruled
that the Indian Removal
Act was
unconstitutional.
Jackson said Try to
stop me

Many Native Americans,

mostly Cherokee, were
forced to move west of the
Mississippi River, to
present day Oklahoma.

Besides losing their

homeland, approximately
4,000 Cherokee died along
the way.

This forced removal

became know as the Trail
of Tears.

Some groups, such as the

Seminoles of Florida,
resisted.

TRAIL OF TEARS
was the nickname given
to the Indian Removal
Act because thousands
of Indians died on the
way to Indian Territory

WORK ON FOLD

Creating Political Cartoons

Your assignment is to create a political cartoon on
Jacksons presidency choosing one of the below listed
topics as the subject for your cartoon.
1. Nullification Crisis (states rights)
2. Indian Removal
3. Expansion of Democracy to the Common Man

A political cartoon makes a point or

conveys the cartoonists opinion.

Jackson Video 1
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Jackson Video 7
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Jackson Video 8
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Jackson Video 9
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Jackson Video 10
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