2.1828 ushered in the beginning of the modern political party system
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3.Jackson had been denied the presidency in 1824 despite winning a plurality of the vote
He put together a support network
4.coalition of state political organizations, newspaper publishers, and other community leaders
5.That group became the present-day Democratic party
6.Jackson accused Adams of being a corrupt career politician, while Adams accused Jackson of being a stupid and violent drunkard
7.The modern political campaign was born
8.He dismissed numerous government -officials and replaced them with political supporters
Trading jobs for political favors came to be known as the "spoils system."
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10.Jefferson had conceived of a nation governed by middle- and upper-class educated property holders, in which the government would be only as large as absolutely necessary
11.Jacksonian democracy was based on universal manhood suffrage, meaning the extension of voting rights to all white males, even those who did not own property
12.A strong presidency also characterized Jacksonian democracy
13.Jacksonian democracy is not a coherent vision of how a government should function
14.Strongest support came from the western frontier states
Jackson accordingly pursued an aggressive Indian removal program
15.The Supreme Court had protected Native American rights to their land in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and Worcester v. Georgia
16.Jackson forcibly evicted tribes
Removal Act of 1830 set in motion the events that resulted in the Trail of Tears
17.Jackson wanted to “downsize” the federal government.
18.He saw to it that the Second Bank of the United States failed
Deposited Federal funds in state banks
19.Remember, Clay (the American System) had helped deny Jackson the presidency earlier
20.Jackson put a halt to all programs associated with Clay's American System
21.made extensive use of the presidential veto
22.One of the major issues of Jackson's presidency focused on nullification
23. Individual states have the right to disobey federal laws if they find them unconstitutional
24.View expressed by Jefferson and Madison in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
25.Tariff of 1828
also known as the Tariff of Abominations
26.Became a national crisis during Jackson's administration
Some states started to consider nullifying the tariff in 1830
27.1830 nullification movement failed
Laid the groundwork for opposition to the Tariff of 1832, which South Carolina nullified
28.Compromise Tariff (1833) agreed to reduce tariff gradually over time (1842) but gave president power to employ troops to collect from the states.
29.Jackson threatened to call in troops
crisis subsided with the compromise
However ……..
30. it would continue to be an issue until the War Between the States
31.Jackson's economic policies demonstrated his distrust of both big government and Northeastern power brokers
32.Political expediency seemed to affect Jackson’s efforts (just as they had Calhoun’s).
33.(He may not have wanted BIG government, but he did want POWERFUL Presidency.)
34.suspicious of paper money
Specie Circular
ended the policy of selling government land on credit (buyers now had to pay "hard cash")
35.… caused a money shortage, a sharp decrease in the treasury, and overall economic hardship
36.Slavery
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37.controversial issue during Jackson's tenure
38.South experienced several slave revolts
Nat Turner's Rebellion
39.Turner had a vision and took this vision as a sign from God that a black liberation movement would succeed
40.rallied a gang that proceeded to kill and then mutilate the corpses of sixty whites
41.In retaliation, 200 slaves were executed
States passed a series of restrictive laws, known as black codes, prohibiting blacks from congregating and learning to read
42.THE ELECTION OF 1836 AND THE RISE OF THE WHIGS
43.Jackson's Democratic party could not represent the interests of all its constituencies
Northern abolitionists, Southern plantation owners, Western pioneers
44.Opposition party, the Whigs, was formed
… loose coalition that shared opposition to one or more of the Democrats' policies
1834
45.Whigs believed in government activism -- supported the temperance movement and enforcement of the Sabbath (Sunday Blue Laws)
46.1836, Jackson supported his second vice-president, democrat Martin Van Buren, who …
47.had the misfortune to take over the presidency just as the country entered a major economic crisis (Panic of 1837)
48.Van Buren made the situation worse by continuing Jackson's policy of favoring hard currency
Downturn lasted through Van Buren's term
49.1841, former military hero William Henry Harrison became the first Whig president
He died of pneumonia a month after taking office
50.John Tyler, a former Democrat, assumed the presidency …
began championing states' rights …
much to his own party's chagrin
51.He alienated Whig leadership
… referred to as the "president without a party"
his presidency lasted only one term
52.ECONOMIC HISTORY, 1800-1860
53.BEGINNINGS OF A MARKET ECONOMY
54.Market economy: people trade their labor or goods for cash, which they then use to buy other people's labor or goods
55.From the time the first settlers arrived most people made their own clothing and built their own furniture and homes
56.Developments in manufacturing and transportation changed all that.
Made it possible to mass produce goods and transport them across country cheaply
57.Market economies favor those who specialize
Market economies grow more quickly and provide more services than subsistence economies
58.They also make people more interdependent
59.They are also much more prone to change
(see panics of 1819 and 1837)
Changes are referred to as boom-and-bust cycles
60.War of 1812 and the events leading up to it forced the United States to become less dependent on imports
61.The cotton gin, invented in 1793, revolutionized Southern agriculture
Now easier and cheaper to use cotton
Tell about RI woman’s input.
62.Demand for cotton grew
Spread of cotton as the region's chief crop also intensified the South's dependence on slave labor
63.Whitney's second innovation was the use of interchangeable parts in manufacturing
64.Interchangeable parts gave birth to the machine-tool industry
Whitney's advances helped promote assembly line production
65.THE NORTH AND THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY
Machine technology, coupled with a U.S. embargo on British goods prior to and during the War of 1812 (England was then America's chief source of textiles), spurred the development of textile mills in New England
66.mills produced thread and hired local women to spin the thread into cloth at home
67.Invention of the first power loom in 1813 meant that textile manufacturers could produce both thread and finished fabric
68.Women who had previously woven their own fabrics at home started to buy cloth
69.Growth of the textile industry resulted in a shortage of labor in New England
70.Manufacturers had to "sweeten the pot" to entice laborers
almost all of whom were women from nearby farms
71.The Lowell system
also called the Waltham system
72.Guaranteed employees housing in a respectable, chaperoned boardinghouse, cash wages, and participation in cultural and social events organized by the mill
73.lasted until great waves of Irish immigration in the 1840s and 1850s made factory labor plentiful
74.Working conditions started to deteriorate
workers began to organize labor unions
75.Early unions in the mid-1800s met with strong, frequently violent opposition
Still, they succeeded in shortening the typical workday to ten hours
76.They also got the courts to confirm their right to organize
77.TRANSPORTATION: CANALS, RAILROADS, HIGHWAYS, AND STEAMSHIPS
78.Prior to the 1820s, travel and shipping along east-west routes was difficult
The construction of the National Road from Maryland to West Virginia (and ultimately to central Ohio) made east-west travel easier
79.Big change came with the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825
Linked the Great Lakes region to New York
80.It became lucrative for a Midwestern merchant or farmer to sell his products to Eastern buyers, and as a result the Northeast soon established itself as the United States' center of commerce
81.During the 1830s thousands of miles of canals were constructed
82.Meanwhile, the railroads developed
By 1850, the canal era had ended
83.Steamships became important freight carriers and replaced sailing ships for long sea voyages
By 1850 passengers could travel by steamship from New York to England in ten days
84.America's first railroads were built during the 1830s but rail development proceeded slowly due to varying gauges (width between tracks)
85.Government often paid the bill for conversion to common gauge
By 1853, New York and Chicago were linked
86.Southern rail development was much slower, and superior rails gave the North a huge advantage during the Civil War
87.The invention of the telegraph allowed immediate long-distance communication
88.Developments in transportation and communication during the first half of the nineteenth century revolutionized American commerce and culture.
89.FARMING
The most common profession throughout the first half of the nineteenth century
90.Many machines came into common use during this time
mechanical plow, sower, reaper, thresher, baler, and cotton gin
91.Market economy changed farming. In 1820 about one-third of all the food grown in the U.S. went to market.
92.Farming in the Northeast was becoming less profitable. Rocky, hilly terrain was unsuitable to many of the machines that were making farming on the plains easier and cheaper
93.Some New England farmers quit cultivating grain and started raising livestock and growing fruits and vegetables. Others quit farming entirely and headed to the cities to take manufacturing jobs.
94.Midwestern farms-much larger than New England farms-were also much more adaptable to the new technology that allowed farmers to nearly double production
95.In the South, plantations focused primarily on cotton, especially in the Deep South; tobacco continued to be a major cash crop in the Upper South
96.Majority of Southerners were small farmers who did not own slaves. (In 1860 approximately one-quarter of white Southern families owned slaves.)
97.WESTWARD EXPANSION
Louisiana Purchase removed one major obstacle to U.S. western settlement, and the resolution of the War of 1812 removed another by depriving Native Americans of a powerful ally in Great Britain
98.America's manifest destiny
God-given right to the Western territories
99.Some argued that Canada and Mexico eventually would be annexed by the United States
100.When Mexico declared its independence from Spain in 1821, the new country included what is now Texas
Mexico wanted settlers for its territories
101.The Mexican government established liberal land policies to entice settlers, and tens of thousands of Americans flooded the region
102.Settlers were supposed to become Mexican citizens
Instead, they ignored Mexican law, including-and especially-the one prohibiting slavery
103.settlers declared independence from Mexico
Battle at the Alamo was fought (1836)
104.Texas was an independent country called the Republic of Texas
Texas was not admitted to the Union until 1845 (slavery)
105.By the late 1840s those heading along the Oregon Trail had a new destination-California
1848 the discovery of gold in the California mountains set off the Gold Rush
106.More than 100,000 people went to the Golden State in just two years
Most did NOT get rich, but …
107.Many prospectors-settled the area after discovering that it was very hospitable to agriculture
108.Pacific Ocean allowed major cities such as San Francisco to develop as important trade centers.