Andrew Jackson

Question 1

• 350,000 men vote in 1824
• 2.4 million men vote in 1840
• New laws
• Improved education
• More exciting campaign methods
• Increases in newspaper circulation

Answer 1

Reasons for increased voter participation

Question 2

Government for the people

Answer 2

Jeffersonian democracy

Question 3

Government by the people

Answer 3

Jacksonian democracy

Question 4

• Jackson gets the popular vote
• House gets to decide
• John Quincey Adams was elected president

Answer 4

Results of the 1824 election

Question 5

Andrew Jackson won in a landslide

Answer 5

1828 election

Question 6

• Veteran of 2 major wars
• Led troops in the battle of new Orleans during the War of 1812

Answer 6

Andrew Jackson

Question 7

• Thousands of native Americans forced to move west of the Mississippi
• Passed in 1830
• The Native Americans fought back, and challenged the Georgia law in the Supreme Court.
• Chief Justice sides with the Native Americans!

Answer 7

Indian Removal Act

Question 8

• Tariff of 1816 → on imports of cheap textiles.
• Tariff of 1824 → on iron goods and more expensive woolen and cotton imports.
• Tariff of 1828 → higher tariffs on imported raw materials [like wool & hemp].
• Supported by Jacksonians to gain votes from farmers in NY, OH, KY.
• The South alone was adamantly against it.

Answer 8

Tariff battles

Question 9

• South Carolina tries to invalidate, a law about the tariff. This goes against the concept of Federalism which states that Federal Law is THE law of the land and supersedes (wins over) state laws
• If Jackson hadn’t confronted South Carolina, it was possible that all Southern States may have seceded over this!

Answer 9

Nullification crisis

Question 10

• South Carolina issues a law saying they won’t collect the national tariff
• Jackson threatens to send federal troops to collect it anyway
• He sends a proclamation to the people of South Carolina saying they are committing TREASON

Answer 10

President Jackson Acts Quick

Question 11

1832 → Jackson vetoed the extension of the 2nd National Bank of the United States.
“Pet Banks”
1836 → the charter expired.
1841 → The bank went bankrupt!

Answer 11

The “Monster” is Destroyed

Question 12

• Speculation in the west caused land prices to become very inflated.
• Jackson’s solution: You can only buy future federal land with gold or silver. No paper money
• This move shocked the system.
• Jackson’s goal → to curb the land speculation.

Answer 12

The Specie Circular (1836)

Question 13

• Banknotes lose their value.
• Land sales plummeted.
• Increased demand of specie (which banks don’t have)
• Credit not available.
• Businesses began to fail.
• Unemployment rose.

Answer 13

Results of the Specie Circular ( Called “The Panic of 1837”)

Question 14

All white males could vote, regardless of…?

Answer 14

Class, Land ownership, Religion

Question 15

• Nullification Crisis,
• The National Bank
  Slavery expanding #Missouri Compromise

Answer 15

Examples of sectional issues

Question 16

Westerners don’t like the ______ _______but Easterners do.

Answer 16

National bank

Question 17

_________ tried to nullify a national law or make it invalid because they thought it only benefited the ______.

Answer 17

Southerners, North

Question 18

________ don’t think slavery should be expanded into the west, but ________ do!

Answer 18

Northerners, Southerners

Question 19

• Represents the common man, also does what he wants
• Tries to help the common man, at the expense of the wealthy man
• Forces the deaths of thousands of Native Americans
• Dueled a man for talking trash about his wife
• Shuts down the national bank and sends the country into a recession
• Saves the country from a Civil War by putting South Carolina in its place

Answer 19

Andrew Jackson