Slide 1 : THE JACKSON PRESIDENCY AND JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY
Slide 2 : 1828 ushered in the beginning of the modern political party system
Slide 3 : Jackson had been denied the presidency in 1824 despite winning a plurality of the vote He put together a support network
Slide 4 : coalition of state political organizations, newspaper publishers, and other community leaders
Slide 5 : That group became the present-day Democratic party
Slide 6 : Jackson accused Adams of being a corrupt career politician, while Adams accused Jackson of being a stupid and violent drunkard
Slide 7 : The modern political campaign was born
Slide 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."
Slide 9 : Jacksonian democracy replaced Jeffersonian democracy
Slide 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
Slide 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
Slide 12 : A strong presidency also characterized Jacksonian democracy
Slide 13 : Jacksonian democracy is not a coherent vision of how a government should function
Slide 14 : Strongest support came from the western frontier states Jackson accordingly pursued an aggressive Indian removal program
Slide 15 : The Supreme Court had protected Native American rights to their land in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and Worcester v. Georgia
Slide 16 : Jackson forcibly evicted tribes Removal Act of 1830 set in motion the events that resulted in the Trail of Tears
Slide 17 : Jackson wanted to “downsize” the federal government.
Slide 18 : He saw to it that the Second Bank of the United States failed Deposited Federal funds in state banks
Slide 19 : Remember, Clay (the American System) had helped deny Jackson the presidency earlier
Slide 20 : Jackson put a halt to all programs associated with Clay's American System
Slide 21 : made extensive use of the presidential veto
Slide 22 : One of the major issues of Jackson's presidency focused on nullification
Slide 23 : Individual states have the right to disobey federal laws if they find them unconstitutional
Slide 24 : View expressed by Jefferson and Madison in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Slide 25 : Tariff of 1828 also known as the Tariff of Abominations
Slide 26 : Became a national crisis during Jackson's administration Some states started to consider nullifying the tariff in 1830
Slide 27 : 1830 nullification movement failed Laid the groundwork for opposition to the Tariff of 1832, which South Carolina nullified
Slide 28 : Compromise Tariff (1833) agreed to reduce tariff gradually over time (1842) but gave president power to employ troops to collect from the states.
Slide 29 : Jackson threatened to call in troops crisis subsided with the compromise However ……..
Slide 30 : it would continue to be an issue until the War Between the States
Slide 31 : Jackson's economic policies demonstrated his distrust of both big government and Northeastern power brokers
Slide 32 : Political expediency seemed to affect Jackson’s efforts (just as they had Calhoun’s).
Slide 33 : (He may not have wanted BIG government, but he did want POWERFUL Presidency.)
Slide 34 : suspicious of paper money Specie Circular ended the policy of selling government land on credit (buyers now had to pay "hard cash")
Slide 35 : … caused a money shortage, a sharp decrease in the treasury, and overall economic hardship
Slide 36 : Slavery Civil War – Road to War H/O
Slide 37 : controversial issue during Jackson's tenure
Slide 38 : South experienced several slave revolts Nat Turner's Rebellion
Slide 39 : Turner had a vision and took this vision as a sign from God that a black liberation movement would succeed
Slide 40 : rallied a gang that proceeded to kill and then mutilate the corpses of sixty whites
Slide 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
Slide 42 : THE ELECTION OF 1836 AND THE RISE OF THE WHIGS
Slide 43 : Jackson's Democratic party could not represent the interests of all its constituencies Northern abolitionists, Southern plantation owners, Western pioneers
Slide 44 : Opposition party, the Whigs, was formed … loose coalition that shared opposition to one or more of the Democrats' policies 1834
Slide 45 : Whigs believed in government activism -- supported the temperance movement and enforcement of the Sabbath (Sunday Blue Laws)
Slide 46 : 1836, Jackson supported his second vice-president, democrat Martin Van Buren, who …
Slide 47 : had the misfortune to take over the presidency just as the country entered a major economic crisis (Panic of 1837)
Slide 48 : Van Buren made the situation worse by continuing Jackson's policy of favoring hard currency Downturn lasted through Van Buren's term
Slide 49 : 1841, former military hero William Henry Harrison became the first Whig president He died of pneumonia a month after taking office
Slide 50 : John Tyler, a former Democrat, assumed the presidency … began championing states' rights … much to his own party's chagrin
Slide 51 : He alienated Whig leadership … referred to as the "president without a party" his presidency lasted only one term
Slide 52 : ECONOMIC HISTORY, 1800-1860
Slide 53 : BEGINNINGS OF A MARKET ECONOMY
Slide 54 : Market economy: people trade their labor or goods for cash, which they then use to buy other people's labor or goods
Slide 55 : From the time the first settlers arrived most people made their own clothing and built their own furniture and homes
Slide 56 : Developments in manufacturing and transportation changed all that. Made it possible to mass produce goods and transport them across country cheaply
Slide 57 : Market economies favor those who specialize Market economies grow more quickly and provide more services than subsistence economies
Slide 58 : They also make people more interdependent
Slide 59 : They are also much more prone to change (see panics of 1819 and 1837) Changes are referred to as boom-and-bust cycles
Slide 60 : War of 1812 and the events leading up to it forced the United States to become less dependent on imports
Slide 61 : The cotton gin, invented in 1793, revolutionized Southern agriculture Now easier and cheaper to use cotton Tell about RI woman’s input.
Slide 62 : Demand for cotton grew Spread of cotton as the region's chief crop also intensified the South's dependence on slave labor
Slide 63 : Whitney's second innovation was the use of interchangeable parts in manufacturing
Slide 64 : Interchangeable parts gave birth to the machine-tool industry Whitney's advances helped promote assembly line production
Slide 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
Slide 66 : mills produced thread and hired local women to spin the thread into cloth at home
Slide 67 : Invention of the first power loom in 1813 meant that textile manufacturers could produce both thread and finished fabric
Slide 68 : Women who had previously woven their own fabrics at home started to buy cloth
Slide 69 : Growth of the textile industry resulted in a shortage of labor in New England
Slide 70 : Manufacturers had to "sweeten the pot" to entice laborers almost all of whom were women from nearby farms
Slide 71 : The Lowell system also called the Waltham system
Slide 72 : Guaranteed employees housing in a respectable, chaperoned boardinghouse, cash wages, and participation in cultural and social events organized by the mill
Slide 73 : lasted until great waves of Irish immigration in the 1840s and 1850s made factory labor plentiful
Slide 74 : Working conditions started to deteriorate workers began to organize labor unions
Slide 75 : Early unions in the mid-1800s met with strong, frequently violent opposition Still, they succeeded in shortening the typical workday to ten hours
Slide 76 : They also got the courts to confirm their right to organize
Slide 77 : TRANSPORTATION: CANALS, RAILROADS, HIGHWAYS, AND STEAMSHIPS
Slide 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
Slide 79 : Big change came with the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 Linked the Great Lakes region to New York
Slide 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
Slide 81 : During the 1830s thousands of miles of canals were constructed
Slide 82 : Meanwhile, the railroads developed By 1850, the canal era had ended
Slide 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
Slide 84 : America's first railroads were built during the 1830s but rail development proceeded slowly due to varying gauges (width between tracks)
Slide 85 : Government often paid the bill for conversion to common gauge By 1853, New York and Chicago were linked
Slide 86 : Southern rail development was much slower, and superior rails gave the North a huge advantage during the Civil War
Slide 87 : The invention of the telegraph allowed immediate long-distance communication
Slide 88 : Developments in transportation and communication during the first half of the nineteenth century revolutionized American commerce and culture.
Slide 89 : FARMING The most common profession throughout the first half of the nineteenth century
Slide 90 : Many machines came into common use during this time mechanical plow, sower, reaper, thresher, baler, and cotton gin
Slide 91 : Market economy changed farming. In 1820 about one-third of all the food grown in the U.S. went to market.
Slide 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
Slide 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.
Slide 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
Slide 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
Slide 96 : Majority of Southerners were small farmers who did not own slaves. (In 1860 approximately one-quarter of white Southern families owned slaves.)
Slide 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
Slide 98 : America's manifest destiny God-given right to the Western territories
Slide 99 : Some argued that Canada and Mexico eventually would be annexed by the United States
Slide 100 : When Mexico declared its independence from Spain in 1821, the new country included what is now Texas Mexico wanted settlers for its territories
Slide 101 : The Mexican government established liberal land policies to entice settlers, and tens of thousands of Americans flooded the region
Slide 102 : Settlers were supposed to become Mexican citizens Instead, they ignored Mexican law, including-and especially-the one prohibiting slavery
Slide 103 : settlers declared independence from Mexico Battle at the Alamo was fought (1836)
Slide 104 : Texas was an independent country called the Republic of Texas Texas was not admitted to the Union until 1845 (slavery)
Slide 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
Slide 106 : More than 100,000 people went to the Golden State in just two years Most did NOT get rich, but …
Slide 107 : Many prospectors-settled the area after discovering that it was very hospitable to agriculture
Slide 108 : Pacific Ocean allowed major cities such as San Francisco to develop as important trade centers.