Henrietta chapter 6

• ›  The Rise of Democracy:

  • ›  More Americans (____________________) participated in politics

  • ›  _______________________ requirements and taxpaying requirements disappeared in many states

  • ›  Western states gain more prominence

• ›  Parties Take Command:

  › Martin Van Buren helped introduce ____________________________________ – rewarded supporters with jobs (patronage, spoils system)

• ›  The Election of 1824 (The “_____________________________”):

• ›  4 candidates for the election of 1824

  › None win an ___________________ majority, although Andrew Jackson has most electoral and popular votes

• ›  According to the 12th Amendment, the House would then decide on the top 3 candidates

  • ›  __________________________ (Speaker of the House), finished 4th and was out of the running

  • ›  He threw his support behind ___________

• ›  Adams becomes president, Henry Clay becomes his Secretary of

  ______________ (stepping stone to the presidency) › The Last Notable President: JQA

  › JQA favored the American System
  › 3 parts – internal improvements, tariffs, BUS

  › The Fate of Adams’s Policies:
  › Many Jacksonians rejected the American System

  › The Tariff Battle:
  › Tariff of _____________________ (1828):

  › Raised tariff rates drastically
  › Hated by ________________
  › Favored by manufacturers in NE

  › “The Democracy” and the Election of 1828

  • ›  _____________________________ ran as Jackson’s VP

  • ›  Increased voter turnout in 1828 (Jackson won by a large

    margin)

    The Jacksonian Presidency, 1829 - 1837

    › Jackson’s Agenda: Rotation and Decentralization: › ____________________ Cabinet:

    › Group of official and unofficial advisors to Jackson › The Tariff and Nullification:

    › Slave owners feared high ______________ -> feared that slavery would be outlawed next

community
› In essence, it __________________ Dartmouth

College v. Woodward

Class, Culture, and the Second Party System

› The Whig Worldview:

• ›  Formed in response to “___________________________”

• ›  Favored strong central government

• ›  Promoted industry and internal improvements (especially in the

  West)

• ›  Anti-Masons Become Whigs:

  › 1st _________ Party

  › Anti-secret society

• ›  Election of 1836:

  • ›  MVB vs. several Whigs (hope to send to the House a la 1828)

  • ›  MVB wins, is plagued by the Panic of 1837: › Causes:

    › ________________________________, crop failures, panics in Europe

    › Effects:
    › 100s of banks failed, unemployment

    grew, prices of land dropped

    “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too”

    › Election of ____________

› MVB v. “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too”

› “Log Cabins and Hard Cider”

› “____________________________” › WHH dies 30 days into his presidency

› Tyler “His Ascendency”

• ›  Democrat at heart, hated Jackson

• ›  Once in office, Tyler rejected many ______ programs, became a

  president without a party
  › Ethnocultural politics – voting along ethnic and/or religious lines

  › Irish, Germans, and Catholics tended to vote _______________