Target
• Evaluate the presidency of Andrew Jackson by writing an essay.
• Does Jackson deserve to be on the twenty dollar bill?
South Carolina’s Nullification
• 1828-Tariff of Abominations
• South hates it
• South Carolina (John C. Calhoun) introduces Nullification
• Jackson threatened to go to war (Force Bill)
• Hang Calhoun
• South Carolina backs down!
Chief Legislator
• Indian Removal Act 1830
– Fed. Gov’t provided funds to negotiate treaties
– 90 treaties (Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw)
Vetoed charter to extend National Bank
Force Bill
Chief Economic Planner
• Anti-National Bank
• Agent of the wealthy
• Pulled money out
• Put in “Pet Banks”
• State banks that were loyal to Jackson
Leader of his Political Party
• Democratic-Republican (Democrats)
• Spoils System
• Clay and Webster (Whigs) hated him
Representative of all the People
• Extended voting rights
• Concerned for the common people
• Humble origins-born in a log cabin
• Actually a wealthy plantation owner
Jackson’s LegacyDoes Jackson deserve to be on the twenty dollar bill?
Thesis and at least 3 specific examples (3 paragraphs)
Legacy of Jackson
• Increase in Sectionalism
• Tariff of 1828 (Abominations)
• Led to Nullification
• State’s Rights
• Slavery
• Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren
• Panic of 1837
• Caused by Jackson’s “Bank War”
• Collapse of the credit system
• Bankrupted hundreds of businesses
• 1/3 of the population out of work
• His interference in the “Amistad Africans” case.
Legacy of the two parties
• Political speeches become entertainment
• Passion rather than reason
• Involves more Americans in the process
• Average citizen become more politically aware.
• Increases tension between North and South
Manifest Destiny
• “It was the United States’ destiny to expand to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican territory”
• Obvious…inevitable