The age of Jackson
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Adam(presenter/note taker), Hannah(researcher),
Fiona(note taker), Theo(slide creator)
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Adams and Jeffersons died in 1826
approved the Declaration of Independence July 4 1776
1824 Andrew Jackson won the popular vote but not the electoral vote.
Adam won the presidency
Jackson's new presidential style
Jackson thought of himself as a man of humble origins and he thought of Adams as a intellectual elitist.
The Jackson administration practiced the spoils system.
Removal of native Americans During then Indian removal act Indians forcibly removed for Their homes and states.
Cherokees fought back using the legal system and won, but jackson wouldn't acknowledge the courts decision.
When the Indians lost their land they were sent on the trail of tears to a land with much worse quality land.
A tariff raises the states' rights issue
When the war of 1812 ended, British manufactures wanted to destroy their America competitors by flooding the us market with inexpensive
goods. Congress passed a tariff law
Done in order to tax unwanted goods that was damaging us economy
South Carolina appose the tariff and threatened to succeed from the nation
Jackson threatened to invade South Carolina Final compromise by making. A final tariff and South Carolina backed down
Jackson and the bank
Jackson never sent troops to South Carolina but did help their crisis by vetoing the bill to recharter the bank
Henry clay and Daniel Webster (the other people running for office) thought that by creating a charter for Jackson to veto would loose support
for him, but they underestimated the dislike of the BUS charter, and their like towards Jackson
Charter doesn't expire until 1836
Jackson tired to ensure that the general public thought of the BUS charter as a privilege
Federal banks were deposited in the BUS rather then the private and second banks Pet banks
Van Buren said that BUS was bad
Jackson tried to kill the BUS before it ran out 1836
Henry plauge, Adams and Daniel Webster created the Whig party because they wanted to take action with their frustration
So when Jackson did not to run for a third term, Martin Van Buren became the new elector
Jackson ended up supporting Van Buren
In may 1837 banks accepting paper money, instead they accepted gold and silver
Bank closing bankrupted hundreds of business and put more than a third of people out of work
Van Buren tried to help but only made things worse
The tariff crisis
A tariff raises the states' rights issue
When the war of 1812 ended,
British manufactures wanted to
destroy their America competitors
by flooding the us market with
inexpensive goods. A tariff is a tax imposed on
imported goods and
services
The tariff act was created to convince people to buy American
made goods as oppose to cheaper British ones. The tariff act was
created to bring back business to American factories. It was a tax
on the British goods to make them more expensive then the
American ones.
The Indian Removal Act of
1830
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The act was created so southerns could
have more land for cotton plantations, in
other words; the southerns saw the native
Americans as an obstacle that needed to
disappear
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The Indian Removal act of 1830 gave
president Jackson the ability to negotiate
with Native American tribes living east of
the Mississippi River, the Native Americans
were to give up their land east of the
Mississippi for land west of the Mississippi,
and whoever did not leave would become a
citizen of the state
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The act was meant to be a peaceful deal,
however for the southeastern nations, they
resisted and were eventually forced out, for
example most of the Cherokee refused to
leave, so 7,000 soldiers were sent to force
them to, they began the journey known as
the trail of tears, and 4,000 Cherokee
members died.
Native Americans walking the trail of tears
Decrease in Native
American population