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