• 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