Drill 2/29

Debate issues: What were some of the key issues

talked about in the Presidential Debate?

How do you feel the candidates did?

The Antebellum Period

Objective: SWBAT

Identify Jacksonian Democracy Analyze the impact of the “Indian

Removal Act”

Andrew Jackson

Former Tennessee Supreme Court judge

War hero of 1812 Democratic – Republican

Senator Stern, hot-tempered

Nick-named “Old Hickory”

The Election of 1824

Jackson v JQ Adams v Wm.H Crawford v Henry Clay

Jackson won the popular voteNo one won enough electoral votes to

winJackson had the mostHouse of Representatives voted for

JQ Adams Jackson would run again in 1828 and

win

Jacksonian Democracy

Expanded SuffrageWhite-male suffrage was expanded greatly

Manifest DestinyIt was God’s will that America settle all the

way to the Pacific

Jacksonian Democracy

Patronage Placing political supporters in appointed positions

Strict Constructionalism The Constitution is what it is, limited federal power

Laissez-Faire Economics The government should stay out of business affairs

and the markets will take care of themselves

Drill 9/30

Who were the Five Civilized Tribes? What is the trail of tears?

The Five Civilized Tribes

Drill 10/1

What is a tariff? What impact did the Cotton Gin have

on the Southern United States?

Tariff A tax on an imported good

The cotton gin made cotton a viable money-making crop. The southern agricultural economy flourished as did slavery.

It would also aid in further resistance to industrialization.

Jackson and the economy

Biggest issue of the day: Tariffs Caused a divide between North and

SouthSouthern economy now based on

cotton, little manufacturingSouthern manufactured goods come

from the north or directly from England

Jackson and the economy

Congress raised the tariff on imported goods twice1824 and 1828

This began to hurt the Southern Economy and southern lawmakers began to think.

John C Calhoun

Vice President South Carolina Developed a theory of

NULLIFICATION that South Carolina could use

John C Calhoun

Each state was sovereign when they SIGNED the Constitution so they must still be sovereign now.

QED, the states should be able to nullify laws they find as uncostitutional

The Nullification Crisis

Jackson is angryHe considers South Carolina’s

declaration to be a personal insult and challenge of his power

Jackson urges Congress to pass a bill that would allow for military force to be used if SC does not pay the tariff

Enter Henry Clay

Senator from Kentucky Crafted a compromise that

would lower the tariffs gradually (1833)

Maintained the Supremacy of the Federal Gov’t

Placated the states

Drill 10/6

Explain the Nullification crisis

Objective: SWBAT

Identify Henry Clay’s American System and the Missouri Compromise

Analyze Western expansion and how it influenced the Mexican War

Henry Clay: reformer

While House speaker Clay developed what he called his “AMERICAN SYSTEM”

Establishing a protective tariff Rechartering the national bank

BUS would produce one single currency

Sponsoring the development of transportation systems and other internal improvements

Henry Clay: reformer As new territory becomes states

the question of slavery enters into it

Many do not want slaveholders buying up all the lands

Clay develops the Missouri Compromise Maine (Free) and Missouri

(slave) are admitted

New states north of a line drawn west of MS southern border was to be a free state

Any free state must be accompanied by a slave state, vice versa

The problem with Texas

Southern planters moved into Texas lands (then Mexico)

Mexican officials allowed it so long as three conditions were followedConvert to Catholicism Stay away from the coastNo slavery

Settlers ignored all of those rules

Texas

Mexico tries to enforce their laws, Texas claims independence

There is a brief war and in 1836 Texas is an Independent republicNo one wants them

1844 – Enter Polk