POST-JACKSON AMERICAAPUSH 4.2
VAN BUREN
1836 Election
Van Buren hand-picked by Jackson
Whigs try to force it to House and have 3 regional candidates run.
Harrison, Webster, White
Martin Van Buren – 8th President (1837-1841), Democrat
OK – “Old Kinderhook”
How is Van Buren much like George H.W. Bush (#41) in history?
NEW STATE?
Texas broke away from Mexico and formed their own country.(more about that in the next unit)
They applied for statehood, but both Jackson and Van Buren did not press the issue.
What scared Jackson and Van Buren enough to not let them in?
I THOUGHT JACKSON KILLED THE BUS?When Van Buren became President, the nation had just entered the Panic of 1837.
What was one of the main reasons for that economic downturn?
Van Buren pushes through the Independent Treasury Bill.
Independent Treasury = B.U.S.
How does Jackson like this?
What happens to his support of Van Buren?
AFTER MARSHALL…
Jackson would appoint Roger Taney as Chief Justice
Taney Court – more for states rights than federal power
Most famous case – Dred Scott decision
OUR GREATEST PRESIDENT?1840 Election - Harrison
“Tippecanoe and Tyler Too”
Log Cabin Campaign
Did he ever live in a cabin?
Hard cider campaign
Meanwhile, how is Van Buren viewed?
This is the one election that any Whig running probably would have won. But did Henry Clay run this time?
Whig – Harrison
Democrat – Van Buren
ONE REALLY GREAT MONTH9th President – William Henry Harrison, Whig, 1841
Dies after one month in office
“His Accidency” takes over – 10th President John Tyler (1841-45)
Does a V.P. that takes over have same powers?
Whigs finally have a man in office, but Tyler doesn’t act like a Whig.
Internal Improvements Bill vetoed
Independent Treasury removed (no more BUS again)
Entire cabinet resigns and replaced with Democrats
How does Clay like all this?
DIPLOMACYCaroline incident (1837) – Americans supplying Canadian insurgents
Creole incident (1841) – Slaves that escaped to Bahamas on ship were said to be free by British
Aroostook War – Fighting over Maine / Canada Boundary
Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842) – Resolved all the issues above
RISE OF 3RD PARTIES
What is the importance of 3rd or minor parties?
Minor/3rd Parties of the early 1800s:
Anti-Mason Party
American (Know-Nothing) Party
Liberty Party
What were each of them against?
TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION REVOLUTION
American System of Clay pushes for more Internal Improvements
such as canals and roads
Steamboats improved and in 1830s railroad lines starting (B&O first in 1830)
Samuel Morse invents telegraph in 1844.
How does that change communication?
MORE INVENTIONSCyrus McCormick – 1834 mechanical reaper
Charles Goodyear – 1839 – vulcanization of rubber
Elias Howe – 1846 – sewing machine (Isaac Singer improves it)
John Deere – 1847 – steel plow
BIRTH OF UNIONSEarly unions from Lowell Factory Girls
1834 – Factory Girls Assoc.
1845 – Female Labor Reform Assoc. – Sarah Bagley
Commonwealth v. Hunt – said Unions and strikes are lawful
What is Collective Bargaining?
MEANWHILE IN THE SOUTH…“King Cotton” and the “peculiar institution”
Planters control economy, politics, and society
What about “plain folk?”
-Over 90% did not own slaves
-up-country farmers
Slavery
Urban vs. Rural slaves
House vs. Field slaves
Pidgin – slave language
Sambo – accepted slavery
myth of happy, old slave
1831 – Nat Turner’s rebellion – 55 whites killed
WHAT ABOUT WOMEN?
How did the Industrial Revolution and Agricultural Revolution effect women?
Good –
Oberlin College (Ohio) – 1837, 1st to accept females
Bad –
Cult of Domesticity
IMMIGRATION
Where were the immigrants from in the early 1800s?
What about in the mid- 1800s?
1840s Irish Potato famine
German economic and political changes
What is the difference between Irish and German immigrants in treatment? Why?
Nativism
American (Know-Nothing) Party
Where do they settle? Why not in South?
What is the effect of factory conditions?
REFLECTION QUESTIONS
What ways were the following Presidents like Jackson and different from Jackson (Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler)?
How did inventions help farmers and women?
How is Henry Clay’s influence shown in the 1830s and 1840s?
Why are there 3rd parties and why were the ones in the mid 1800s formed?
LINKS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XcDeRJ_Osc – Tippecanoe and Tyler Too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcXmzLJ4AHI&list=UUZYs757tACChkS-vjS1m66Q&index=53&feature=plcp – review video, industrialization
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjL12QOI9fk&list=UUZYs757tACChkS-vjS1m66Q&index=51&feature=plcp – review video, south
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGDRnNneGvQ&feature=fvwrel – presidents song