Andrew Jackson/Jacksonian Period (1828-1840s)

election of 1824

• nobody wins electoral college

• john quincy adams chosen by House after henry clay supports him

presidency of john q adams

• protective tariffs to protect american businesses from cheap foreign imports

• expands 2nd national bank

• infrastructure improvements

• seen as benefitting north

election of 1828

• john quincy adams vs andrew jackson

• landslide for jackson (democrat)

• jackson = populist (appealing to common man)

Jacksonianism

• creating policies in name of common man

• promises to end corruption

• vetoes for fun

trail of tears

• indian removal act of 1830 (unconstitutional but jackson does it anyway; ½ of cherokee died)

• motivated by cotton + slavery

nullification crisis

• south carolina tries to nullify federal tariff

• compromise prevents conflict

• actually about slavery (seeing if they could nullify slavery laws)

second national bank recharter veto

jackson kills bank bc he thinks it only helps the rich/north

panic of 1837

• terrible economic collapse bc of jackson’s policies

texas revolution

• americans rebel against mexico (to protect slavery)

• texas becomes country

texas annexation

• us claims texas

  • abolitionists unhappy bc its adding more salvery

mexican-american war

• treaty of guadalupe-hidalgo

  • US gets a bunch of land in west and pays mexico 10M (cheap)

• abolitionist oppose war