1. New Party Emerges Whigs formed to challenge Jackson Election 1836
Advocate expand government & commercial development
Election 1836
Democrat Martin Van Buren
Whigs ran three candidates

2. Martin Van Buren Presidency
Panic of 1837 (economic crisis)
Farmers foreclosures
Unemployment soars

3. Election 1840 Whigs William Henry Harrison V. Dem. Van Buren
Harrison wins
Harrison dies 32 days into term
His VP John Tyler succeeds

4. Tyler Presidency Sides with Dem. Issues with Britain
Oppose 3rd bank, higher tariffs
Issues with Britain
Webster-Ashburton treaty
Firm up border between ME & Canada

5. A Changing Culture

6. New Wave of Immigrants Influx of immigrants between 1815 -1860
Largest group from Ireland
Escape potato famine
Settle in NE, unskilled laborers
Second largest from Germany
Settle in MW
Farms and businesses

7. Impact of Immigration
Creates feelings of Nativism-hostility towards foreigners
Anti-Catholic groups form, ban from office
American Party formed
Secret group
Nickname “Know-Nothings Party”
When asked question would answer “I know nothing”

8. Second Great Awakening
Revive the nation’s commitment to religion
Began as reaction to rationalism
Played role in social reform in the North

10. Revivalism NEW YORK 1823: Charles G. Finney
Delivered sermons appealing to people’s emotions & fear of damnation
Preached all were free to be saved through faith & hard work
SOUTH & WEST Baptist & Methodist – outdoor revivals
By 1850 largest Protestant denomination in US

11. Mormons Church of Latter-Day Saints Joseph Smith 1830
NY to OH to MO to IL
Murdered by mob in IL
Brigham Young leads to Utah
Practice cooperative socialism

12. Utopia Communities
Way to better life and freedom of corruption was to separate from society
Cooperative living,absence of private property
Shakers

13. Literary Renaissance Romanticism – feeling over reason
Transcendentalism – go beyond limits of mind, let soul embrace universe
David Thoreau – fight pressure to conform
Rise of mass newspapers
America becomes more literate

14. Impact of Second Great Awakening
Fix the evils in society before the second coming of Christ
Reform groups created
Temperance (alcohol)
Education
Women’s rights
Crime/prisons
Slavery/abolitionism