1. GROWTH AND REFORM

2. DEMOCRACY, NATIONALISM, AND SECTIONALISM
What changes did Andrew Jackson bring to American political life?

3. THE RISE OF ANDREW JACKSON-WHO IS THIS GUY?
1820SGained popularity as being a ‘common man’
What does a common man represent, do you think?

4. THE RISE OF ANDREW JACKSON-WHO IS THIS GUY?
DEMOCRACY EXPANDS
Presidential electors voted by POPULAR VOTE, not state legislators
States rewrote constitutions saying that any tax-paying white man could vote
Slaves, Native Americans, women could not vote
“Jacksonian Democracy”

5. THE RISE OF ANDREW JACKSON-WHO IS THIS GUY?
ADAMS WINS COSTLY VICTORY
1824-Presidential election was INTERESTING!!!
Between the popular vote and the electoral vote, what could happen? (use your partners to discuss-this happened in the 2000 election)

6. THE RISE OF ANDREW JACKSON-WHO IS THIS GUY?
ADAMS WINS COSTLY VICTORY
Jackson won popular vote but no candidate won the electoral vote number!
House of Reps. Choose winner
Henry Clay, 3rd place finisher, supported Adams
What do you know? Adams made Clay SECRETARY OF STATE!

7. Who won majority of popular vote?
Who came in last?

8. THE RISE OF ANDREW JACKSON-WHO IS THIS GUY?

9. THE RISE OF ANDREW JACKSON-WHO IS THIS GUY?
JACKSON TRIUMPHS
1828Revamped Democratic party
Committees and conventions formed; if you broke with party, kicked out!
Professional politics was born!
Jackson, while in office, replaced government workers with Democratic activists

10. THE RISE OF ANDREW JACKSON-WHO IS THIS GUY?
JACKSON TRIUMPHS
This was known as the SPOILS SYSTEM
A person could gain a political job because of their political loyalty!!
NOT A GOOD THING!

11. CHECKPOINT
Choose one person from your group to answer this checkpoint.
Only this person can raise his/her hand to answer the question.
The other partners can only be used as lifelines but cannot speak. You can only write your lifeline answer. I will be watching you carefully. Whoever raises his/her hand to answer the question first, will win a small prize

12. CHECKPOINT
How did Andrew Jackson benefit from the EXPANSION of democracy?
(akahow were states changing? What kind of man was Andrew Jackson?)
Watch rest of the video about Jackson!

13. INDIAN REMOVAL AMERICANS SEEK INDIAN LAND
Many Natives still remained in this South despite territory loss.
Nations like the Cherokee and Creeks became ASSIMILATED
Use your partners and other resources to come up with a definition of that word!

14. INDIAN REMOVAL AMERICANS SEEK INDIAN LAND
When Georgia went after Indian land, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Indians
Deemed it UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Treaties signed by the federal government need to be upheld
Jackson stated, “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!”

15. INDIAN REMOVAL JACKSON PUSHES INDIAN REMOVAL
1830Jackson already had Congress pass the INDIAN REMOVAL ACT
Peaceful exchange of Indian lands in the South for new lands in Indian Territory in Oklahoma

16. INDIAN REMOVAL JACKSON PUSHES INDIAN REMOVAL
Most Choctaws and Chickasaws agreed
The Creeks did not and were FORCIBLY moved by the US military!
Same with the Seminoles in Florida

17. INDIAN REMOVAL JACKSON PUSHES INDIAN REMOVAL
1838Federal troops forced more than Cherokees to travel to OK
4000 Cherokees died of disease, exposure and hunger
This is known as the TRAIL of TEARS

18. THE NULLIFICATION CRISIS
SCANDULOUS!!!!!!
It’s seems more complicated than it really is…here is the deal
Jackson’s VP opposed a HUGE new tax that the government placed on IMPORTED goods (John C. Calhoun was the VP’s name)

19. THE NULLIFICATION CRISIS
Calhoun began to think that STATES could nullify, or VOID, or law they felt unconstitutional
What can of worms could that open up?
Jackson put in the new tariff anyway; didn’t scare him
Calhoun resigned!
South Carolina voted to NULLIFY the tariff and threatened to break away from the US

20. THE NULLIFICATION CRISIS
COMPROMISE AVERTS A CRISIS
Jackson urged Congress to reduce tariff
Also used federal force in South Carolina
Best of both worlds-conflict avoided

21. CHECKPOINT
Please write this on your own sheets, not using your partners
I will let you know when time is up
How did Calhoun and Jackson differ on the issue of nullification?

22. ECONOMIC WOES
JACKSON OPPOSES THE BANK OF THE UNITED STATES A new political party would be formed as a result of Jackson’s actions 1832Congress renews 2nd Bank of the United States Jackson vetoed the renewal!

23. ECONOMIC WOES
THE WHIG PARTY FORMS 1832Supporters of the bank formed the WHIG PARTY Believed strong federal government should run the economy State and private banks printed paper money without regulation…no value!

24. ECONOMIC WOES POLITICS AFTER JACKSON 1836Martin Van Buren elected
Panic of 1837nation’s worst ECONOMIC DEPRESSION
Land values/sales dropped
Banks/businesses closed down
Farmers lost land; employees cut wages
Whigs managed to get William Henry Harrison elected president; but he died a month later
John Tyler became president and carried on much of Jackson’s legacy!