Transcript Let us Review: Jackson

Let us Review:
Jackson
Favorite Sons
•Candidates who receive
backing from their home
states or regions with out
support from the National
Party.
•Jackson was a Favorite
Son of Tennessee.
•Henry Clay was a Favorite
Son of Kentucky.
The Election of 1824
• Tie: W.H. Crawford,
Henry Clay, Andrew
Jackson, and John Quincy
Adams.
• Jackson and Adams had
the plurality (largest
amount) but not the
majority (51%+).
• So, election goes to
House of
Representatives.
• Corrupt Bargain: Speaker
of House Henry Clay and
J.Q. Adams reach a deal
to give Adams the
Presidency and Clay the
Sect. of State. JACKSON
SCREAMS THAT IT IS A
CORRUPT BARGAIN.
Plurality
Mudslinging
• Mudslinging:
(Personal attacks
designed to ruin a
political opponents
personal reputation.)
• Examples in 1828
• Said of Jackson: “He’s
Gambler, Military
Tyrant, Wife lived in
bigamy with Jackson.”
• Said of J.Q. Adams:
“Gambler, Pool player,
Spoils System and Bureaucracy
• “To the victor go the spoils.”
• Spoils System: (Fire enemies
hire friends in the
government’s bureaucracy. )
• Bureaucracy( Non elected
government officials who
carry out day to day functions
of the government.)
• Called corrupt at the time.
• Spoils system becomes a
precedent that all presidents
follow until late 1890s when
laws changed the rules.
Nominating Conventions
• Caucus System was abandoned where
Congressman chose party nominee and
replaced with Nominating Conventions where
state party representatives chose party
nominees.
Tariff of 1828
• Protective Tariff placed on European
Manufactured Goods.
– Loved in the North, Okay in the West, Hated by John
C. Calhoun in the South!
Jackson and Calhoun Part Company
President Andrew Jackson
Vice President John C.
Calhoun
Tariff of 1828
• South Carolina and Vice
President John C.
Calhoun threatened to
nullify (where states
cancel out a law by
refusing to enforce)the
Tariff of 1828.
• Calhoun wins Senate
seat in South Carolina,
and resigns as Vice
President.
Nullification Crisis
• South Carolina passed
the Nullification Act
which stated that it
refused to pay the
“illegal tariff” of 1828.
• Some South Carolinians
threatened to secede
from the Union.
• Henry Clay got the
Senate to pass the Force
Bill which allowed the
president to use the
military to enforce laws
of Congress.
Jackson enforces Force Bill
• Jackson sent the
military to South
Carolina and
threatened to hang
John C. Calhoun from
the nearest tree.
• South Carolina backed
down and Jackson won
the Nullification Crisis.
Chapter 12 Section 2
Indian Removal
Cherokee
Sequoyah,
Cherokee
Creek
Seminole
Chickasaw
Choctaw
The Indian Removal Act
was signed into law by
President Andrew Jackson
on May 28, 1830, along
with Vice President
Calhoun. The act
authorized him to
negotiate with the Native
Americans in the Southern
United States for their
removal to federal territory
west of the Mississippi
River in exchange for their
homelands
Worcester
V
.
Worcester v. Georgia, (1832), was a case
in which the United States Supreme Court
vacated the conviction of Samuel
Worcester and held that the Georgia
criminal statute that prohibited nonIndians from being present on Indian lands
without a license from the state was
unconstitutional.
"John Marshall has made his decision; now let him
enforce it!".
– Andrew Jackson
Jackson ignores the
Supreme Court and
goes ahead with
Indian Removal.
Doesn’t this violate
the Constitution!
General Winfield Scott
Trail of Tears
Indian Removal
Osceola, Seminole Chief
Fights Back!
Land Run