Jacksonian America

ByDavid BrooksLogan County High

Alexis de Tocqueville

French AristocratWrote the book Democracy in

AmericaAmazed at the amount of equality

among people in America.Wondered how long it would last

due to industrialization.

Jacksonian Democracy

Did Jackson’s election bring more Democracy to the common man?

How?

The Franchise

In the 1820’s states in the west started giving the vote to all white males.

Ohio 1st

By the end of the 1830’s all states had changed their constitutions to this.

1840 Election: 80% of all white males voted.

Andrew Jackson

Physical FeaturesPersonalityPresidential FirstsInauguration

Inaugural Brawl

Cabinet Crises

Martin Van BurenKitchen CabinetEaton Malaria Secy. of War John Eaton Peggy O’Neal John C. Calhoun (VP)

Maysville Road

Jackson vetoed bill in 1830 that would have supported the improvement of the Maysville Road in KY.

Against Henry ClayNationalist policy

South Carolina

Henry Clay CompromiseTariff of 1833Force Bill “Bloody Bill”

US Bank vs. Jackson

RenewalHenry ClayJackson’s ReactionImpacts on the election

Election of 1832

National Republican -- Henry ClayDemocrat -- JacksonAnti-Masonic Party Political 1 firstsJackson won 219-49

Election of 1832

Trail of Tears

1790 Govt. recognized Indian Tribes as separate nations

Cherokees of GA. Became greatly assimilated

1828-- GA. Decides that Indians fallunder state jurisdiction

Trail of Tears

Cherokees appeal to the Supreme Court

1830-- Indian Removal Act1832 Black hawk War1836 Bureau of Indian Affairs

Election of 1836

Democrats-- Martin Van Buren 170

Whigs-- William Henry Harrison 124

Van Buren won the pop. Vote by less than 50,000

Martin Van Buren

1st President born under an American Flag

Short, Skinny, bald, NY

Good Statesman

Specie Circular

1836-- Required all public lands to be purchased with hard currency.

Reaction in the West

Panic of 1837

Result of Jackson’s Banking Policies and Euro Crisis.

Hundreds of Banks failedUnemployment went upBread Riots in the larger cities.

Worst depression in US History to that point lasted 5 years.

Election of 1840

Democrats Martin Van Buren 60Whigs William Henry Harrison 234

John Tyler VP Tippecanoe and Tyler too.

Westward Movement

1850 1/2 of all Americans under age 30

Frontier LifeReasons for moving westGeorge Catlin

Yellowstone

Growth of the US

Population doubling every 25 yrs.

1860 33 states43 cities over 20,000Problems with growthImmigration 1840’s-1850’s

Irish Immigration

Reasons for comingWhere did they move to?Biddies/PaddiesNINAPolitics

German Immigration

Reasons for comingWhere did they move to?Contributions to American

CultureKindergartenPolitics

Industrial Revolution in US

Why did it start here later?Samuel SlaterEli WhitneyElias Howe

Industrial Revolution in US

Samuel MorseJohn DeereCyrus McCormickRobert FultonLancaster Turnpike

TransportationErie Canal (Clinton’s Big Ditch)Trains (The Iron Horse)Pullman Sleeping Car 1859Cyrus Field 1859Pony Express 1860

St. Joseph, MO to Sacramento, CA

Religion2nd Great AwakeningImpactsPeter CartwrightJoseph Smith (Mormons)

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Brigham Young

Education Reform

Horace MannNoah WebsterWilliam McGuffeyNorth Carolina 1st state

supported Univ. 1795Oberlain College in Ohio

Reform

Dorthea DixAmerican Temperance

Society 1826 in Boston.T.S. Arthur Ten Nights in a

Barroom and What I Saw There.

Women’s Rights

Role of Women in early 19th Century

Lucretia MottElizabeth Cady Stanton/

Susan B. AnthonySeneca Falls 1848

Alternative (Utopian) Communities

Robert Owen -- New Harmony Indiana

Oneida Community, NY 1848Shakers

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best known Transcendentalist.

Greatly influenced American culture as a practical philosopher.

Outspoken critic of slavery

Henry David Thoreau

Friend of Emerson

NonconformistWalden:Or Life

in the WoodsOn the Duty of

Civil Disobedience

John J. Audubon

Studied and painted birds of America.

Founded the Audubon Society to protect birds.

Artists

Thomas JeffersonGilbert StuartCharles Wilson PealeJohn TrumbullHudson River School

Gilbert Stuart

Charles Wilson Peale

John Trumbull

Literature

Washington Irving-- Rip Van Winkle, Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

James Fenimore Cooper-- Leatherstocking Tales, Last of the Mohicans.

Walt Whitman

PoetLeaves of

GrassDidn’t use

titles, stanzas, rhymes

Literature

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-- Poet, Evangeline, Song of Hiawatha, Courtship of Miles Standish.

Louisa May Alcott-- Little WomenEmily Dickinson-- Recluse, wrote

over 2000 poems.

Literature

Edgar Allen Poe- The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher

Nathaniel Hawthorne-- The Scarlet Letter

Herman Melville-- Moby Dick