Andrew Jackson

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Lesson Plans

• Grade Jackson's presidency on
  • Democracy
    • students will need to define "democracy"
  • Native Americans
  • Slavery
  • Nationalism
    • students will need to define "nationalism"
  • Tariff, National Bank and Nullifcation Ccrisis

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jackson grades assignment

big sources of evidence: - inaugural speech - veto message - Amsco chapter notes

Categories [US Presidents] [Antebellum] [Age of Democracy] [Sectionalism]

Democracy = "cracy-= rule" demo- ppl" definition: self-governance evidence: A +> significant increase in voters from 1824 - 1828 = voter participation - common ppl A+ > civic = "of the city" = engaging in public life

  evidence: from caucus to convention 
       = more civic engagement by common ppl, more voters
     = taking power from the elites

> Jackson inaugural as evidence > political party activism >> spoils system = political support to get a job?

>> perhaps use inauguration speech

Native American policies > Indian Removal Act >> expulsion from lands/ seizing property >> gave money for the relocation Evidecen: - policies lead to Trail of Tears (under Van Buren) - Jackson ignored court case that ordered the gov to honor Cherokee property rights

    << = abuse of rights
     << = violating the law/ disrespeciting the court

Slavery Jackson's role = > Jacksonian era leas to Mexican War which expands slavery > passive role = ignored the problem > Nat Turner rebellion, 1831 (led to a gag rule in COngress banishig abolitionist debate) > Jax supported states rights (which affirms southern states' power to hold slaves

Nationalism = supporting centralized rule over state powers

inc: tariff, Nat Bank, nullification

Jackson as promotoer of states rights as support of states rights (not nationalist) evidence > anti-tariff ("tariff of abomoniation" Nat Bank: > he wanted smaller, local banks > didn't want wealthy / monopoly control of a national bank

 >> he took the fed gov deposits out of the bank
 >> can quote veto message

> nullifaction crisis: Jackson puts down

 >< he affirms national over state law (SC "wanted to nullify the tariff"  << jackson thought it was treason > quote? 
 >>jax stands strongly for supremacy of federal law
 >> "Our federal union, it must be preserved!"

=>> pro-Union = nationalism ( >> essentialy supports McCullough Maryland )