• U.S. History, 1492-1865
• The Age of Jackson (1824-1840)
• Notes # 9 {Chapter 11}
I. The Rise of Democracy
• Democracy-
• II. The Emergence of Andrew Jackson
• Presidential Election of 1824 (Chap. 10)
– Andrew Jackson
– John Quincy Adams
– Henry Clay
Adams elected
• Adams chooses Clay as Secretary of State • “Corrupt Bargain”
John Quincy Adams as President (1825-1829) (See Chap. 10)
• Election of 1828
• John Quincy Adams (National Republican Party)
• Andrew Jackson (Democratic Party)
• Rachel Jackson
• III. The Presidency of Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)
• The Inauguration
• The “Spoils System”
• A. The Nullification Crisis (1832)
• Background:
• Tariff of 1828
Theory of Nullification (1828)-
John C. Calhoun
Webster-Hayne Debate (1830)
Daniel Webster
Tariff of 1832
Force Bill (1832)
• B. Indian Removal
• Background
• Cherokee Indians
• Sequoyah
• New Echota
• The “Trail of Tears”
C. Jackson’s Attack on the National Bank (1832-1834)
E. The Second Political Party System
• Democratic Party (pro-Jackson)
• Whig Party (anti-Jackson)
• F. The Election of 1840
Martin Van Buren (Democrat)
William Henry Harrison (Whig) {victor at Battle of Tippecanoe Creek, 1811}
John Tyler (VP candidate)
– “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!”
• IV. The Abolitionist Movement
Background:
The Second “Great Awakening”
Charles G. Finney
• Abolitionism
• William Lloyd Garrison
• -The Liberator
- Frederick Douglass
The North Star
Sojournor Truth
• V. The Early Women’s Rights Movement (Chap. 12)
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
• World Anti-slavery Convention (1840)
• Sarah Grimké
• Angelina Grimké
• Women’s Rights Convention (1848)
– Seneca Falls, New York
• V. The “Market Revolution”
• After 1815, USA united into a single national market
• The Market-defined • Capitalism-
• Canals
• Railroads
• The Early Industrial Revolution
• War of 1812
• The Factory System
• Mill Girls