Chapter 13 Flashcards
canidates for the election of 1824
JQA, henry clay, william h. crawford, AJ
election of 1824
AJ won pop vote and most of electoral votes
House had to choose among top 3 canidates (adams, AJ, Crawford)
adams won
corrupt bargain
corrupt bargain
alleged deal made b/w clay and adams
Clay was speaker and had position to throw the vote
no crawford: stroke
no AJ: hated him
Adams: had much in common
Clay became secretary of state
unpopularity of JQA
stubborn
nationalistic views against growing sectionalism
1st minority president
tried to deal w/ NAI fairly
tariff of abominations
political parties
republicans split into 2 parties: national republicans vs jacksonian democrats
campaigning for jackson in 1828
used hickory poles (tough hero)
presented as a champion of the common man
denounced JQA as a corrupt aristocrat
campaigning for jqa in 1828
used oak (independence)
described AJ’s mom as a prostitute and wife as a cheater
election of 1828
hyperboles
mudslinging
large voter turnout
aj support from W and S
JQA from N eng
Aj won 178-83
ajs life
moved to tennesse where he became a judge and congressmen
involved in brawls, duels, and stabbings
war hero
frontier aristocrat: owned slaves. owned a mansion
1st pres from W
the spoils system
rewarding political supporters w/ public office
party vs country
bought posts for caimpaign contribution
unqualiied and corrupt took office
tariff of abominations (tariff of 1828)
needed to protect A industry
s believed it discriminated against them
-everywhere else was growing
nervous abt sectional balance
s caro lwd protests
the south carolina exposition
newspaper that called to nullify the tariff in the states
nullification crisis
s caro got 2/3 vote in state legislature to declare the tariffs null and void
threatened to secede from the union
aj dispatched navy and military to s caro
end of the nullification crisis
clay proposed a compromise bill
reduced the tariff of 1832 by 10% over 8 yrs
force bill
force bill
authorized the pres to use army and navy to collect federal tariffs
aj and the nai
expansion = confrontation
1828: georgia declared cherokee triabal council illegal and asserted its juristdiction
Supreme court overturned this decision but aj wouldn’t enforce it
proposed the removal of tribes beyond the mississippi
uprooted more than 1000000 nai