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King Caucus

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Candidates are nominated by a very elite group and the people have little input

Until the 1830s with the Anti-Masons who make the first national convention

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Election of 1824

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3 way tie between Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, William H. Crawford

People think Adams bribed them (Corrupt Bargain)

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Tariff of Abominations

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Protective tariff to help Northern Industry

South is opposed

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Calhoun’s South Carolina Exposition and Protest

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Nullification

States rights (Compact Theory)

Stated that if the tariff was not repealed South Carolina would sucede

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Election of 1828

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Jackson openly campaigned (new)

Mass democracy: more people can vote, moving towards universal manhood suffrage

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Workingmen’s Parties

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Locofocos

Jackson’s political alliances of eastern laborers, the South, and the West (common people)

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Locofocos

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Democratic New York radicals

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Jackson’s inaguration

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A literal party in the white house

Everything got out of hand

Fear of the mob

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End of the Caucus

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Jackson

Creates primaries and nomination convention

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Spoils System

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Jackson

Appoint based on support

NOT merit

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Martin Van Buren’s Albany Regency

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Group of democrats in New York

Becomes Jackson’s secretary of state

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Kitchen Cabinet

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Jefferson listened to a lot of informal presidential advisors

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Peggy Eaton Affair

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Peggy Eaton was shunned by Washington wives

Jackson stood up for her because of sympathy due to wife’s attacks

Most of his cabinet ends up quitting

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Webster Hayne Debate

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Debate the nature of the Union

States rights vs. federal rights

On protectionist tariffs

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Jefferson Day Toast

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Little Jackson Calhoun Showdown

Jackson, “Our Union, it must be preserved!”

Calhoun, “The union, next to our liberty, most dear!”

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Tarriff of 1832

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Protective tarriff that the South did not like

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South Carolina response to Tariff of 1832

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Nullifies the tariff within its borders

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Force Bill

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In response to SC’s nullification, Jackson stated that he did have the power to send in troops to collect the federal tarriff duties

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Compromise Tariff of 1833

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Drafted by Henry Clay

Gradually reduced the Tariff of 1833

Southerners were happy with this

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Maysville Road Veto

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Vetoed it because it was only in Kentucky

Not intrastate

Also, this was Clay’s home state

21
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Indian Removal Act

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1830

Forced the resettlement of Native Americans to the West

Cherokees affected by this

22
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Bureau of Indian Affairs

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Created to assist in removing the Indians

23
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Cherokee Nation v. Georgia

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Cherokees were told they did not have the right to sue in an American court

“Domestic Dependent States”

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Worcester v. Georgia

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Laws of Georgia did not have meaning within the boundaries of the Cherokee nation

25
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Trail of Tears

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1838 (after Jackson)

US Army forced 15,000 Cherokees to Oklahoma

4,000 died on the way there

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Bank Veto

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Clay got Congress to pass a bank-recharter bill to try to make Jackson look bad

Jackson vetoed the bill

Clay’s plan backfired because people thought Jackson was taking down corrupt institutions

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Jackson’s view on banks

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They are unconstitutional

They are controlled by the wealthy

28
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Role of the Bank of the United States

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Cushioned the ups and downs of a national economy

29
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Nicholas Biddle

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Head of the BUS

Arrogant and aristocrtic

30
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Election of 1832

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Clay vs. Jackson showdown

Jackson wins big

Whigs. vs. Democrats

Anti-Mason party wins Vermont

31
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How did Jackson bury the bank?

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He removed federal funds from the bank in 1833

Distributed them to pet banks

32
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Pet banks

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Democratic banks that Jefferson distributed federal funds to

Inflation and currency was a mess

33
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Specie Circular

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Tries to real back inflation of pet banks

Makes people pay for land in hard currency

Made Panic of 1837 set in

34
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Roger B. Taney

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The only Secretary of Treasurer that would submit to Jackson’s wishes regarding the pet banks

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Democrats

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Favored local rule, limited government, free trade

Opposed monopolies, high tarrifs, and the bank

Voters: southerners, westerners, small farmers, urban workers

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Whigs

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Favored Clay’s American System

Opposed immorality, vice, and crime (blame immigrants)

Voters: New Englanders, Protestants, upper class professionals

37
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Second Seminole War (1835-1842)

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Longest and most costly of Indian Conflicts

Took place in Florida

Seminoles would not leave Florida

38
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Election of 1836

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Jackson really pushed for Martin Van Buren

Van Buren defeats William Henry Harrison

39
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Panic of 1837

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Caused by rampant speculation of Western lands

Van Buren passes the Divorce Bill

40
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Divorce Bill

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Divorce the government from banking

Independent treasury where government could lock up funds in vaults

This way government funds would be safe

Not very popular, repealed by Whigs later

41
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Problem of the Divorce Bill

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Since funds no longer went into the banking system, there was no money to give credit

42
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Tejas

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Mexico got its independence from Spain

Austin brings American families to settle in Tejas

Mexico bans slaves and required Catholicism

Houston calls Tejas his

43
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Alamo

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Texans hold off the mighty Spanish for 13 days

Houston was not here, he thought it was stupid

44
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San Jacinto

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This is where the Mexicans are truly defeated by Sam Jacinto’s surprise attack

45
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Election of 1840

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Harrison vs. Van Buren

Voters are fed up with the party in power

Harrison wins due to portryal as common man (log cabins)

46
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Importance of the Election of 1840

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Shows how you need to get the support of the common man to win

There is now a two party system in America

47
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Big changes in early 1800s

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Population growth

Roads, canals, steamboats, railroads improve transportation

Industry is growing in the North

Cotton gin makes cotton a cash crop

Urbanization and industialization

Women gaining rights to work and can have less children

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Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (1837)

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Charter granted by a state to a company cannot work to the disadvantage of the public

Massachusetts could allow a charter that would diminish another company, because government is worried about general welfare of the public, not contracts

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