Transcript Bell Work

BELL WORK
 Make sure your work from Friday is turned in.
JACKSON AND MASS DEMOCRACY
RISE OF MASS DEMOCRACY
 Property qualifications removed
 Citizenship was given to all white men/men who paid taxes.
 Many states offered more positions for election rather than
appointment.
 Corruption in politics was blatant, and many people expected to receive
benefits in return for money.
THE SPOILS SYSTEM
 Also called patronage
 Offering benefits to friends/investors in return for support.
 Positions in gov’t
 Contracts/land grants
THE ELECTION OF 1824: FIVE CANDIDATES
 John Quincy Adams
 Henry Clay
 John C. Calhoun
 William H. Crawford
 Andrew Jackson
ELECTION OF 1824
 No one won the necessary amount of votes.
 It went to House of Representatives
 John Quincy Adams wins
THE ELITE VS. THE SELF MADE MAN
 John Quincy Adams was very prim and proper.
 Only a third of voters voted for him!
 The new mass democracy was insulted by his “elitist” manner.
 This shows the growing power of the “common man”
THE ELECTION OF 1828
 “Democrats” – new political party supporting Jackson
 Hostility to corporations, tariffs, banks, and the American System.
 New Englanders feared “mobocracy”
 Jackson took the election.
 First President from the trans-Appalachian region.
JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY
 The Tariff and Nullification Crisis
 The Bank War
 The Trail of Tears
JACKSON’S IMPACT
 The Whigs
 Specie Circular
 Impact of the Bank War
 Marti Van Buren
TEXAS GAINS INDEPENDENCE
 Texas breaks away
 “Remember the Alamo!”
WRAP UP
 Exit Slip