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jacksonian democracy and the age of reform 1820

The New Democracy (Jackson). Panic of 1819The Missouri CompromiseTwo party system reemergesElection of 1824: Corrupt Bargain

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jacksonian democracy and the age of reform 1820

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    1. Jacksonian Democracy and the Age of Reform 1820’s-1850’s

    3. Jacksonian Democracy Jackson v. BUS Biddle Pet Bank Scheme Indian removal Trail of Tears The Birth of Texas Election of 1836 Birth of the Whigs (against King Andrew I) Van Buren Panic of 1837 Election of 1840 Whig Harrison is elected

    4. Market Revolution 1790-1860 1st industrial revolution Economic inventions stimulated econ. Growth Textile industry sparked the revolution Creation of a national market economy Transportation revolution Created regional specialization Roads, canals, steamboat, RR Irish and German Immigration (old immigration) Nativism Growth of cities

    5. Reform Driven by the Second great Awakening Reformers troubled by modernization of society Issues Abolition Temperance Dow Women’s rights Mott, Stanton—Seneca falls conference Launched the modern women’s rights movement Education Mann—supported free education Mental institutions Dix Wilderness utopias

    6. The Civil War 1860-1865

    7. The Divisive Politics of slavery The increased tension and violence between North and South leads the nation to the brink of war. Compromise of 1820 Wilmot Proviso Compromise of 1850 Kansas-Nebraska Act Dred Scott Case (1857)—slaves are property 1860 election

    8. The Civil War Strengths/weaknesses of North and South Preserve the Union Emancipation proclamation Political problems Suspend habeas corpus Seized telegraph officers Expanded powers of the executive office The Cost of war Income tax 620,000 died

    9. Reconstruction 1863-1877

    10. Reconstruction and Its effects Lasted from 1865-1877 Lincoln’s plan Ten-Percent Plan a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters swore an oath of allegiance to the Union. Presidential Reconstruction Andrew Johnson Similar to Lincoln’s plan Radical Republicans thought his plan was too easy on the South. Radical Reconstruction Wade-Davis bill Freedman's bureau 1865 to distribute food and supplies, establish schools, and redistribute additional confiscated land to former slaves and poor whites. Anyone who pledged loyalty to the Union could lease forty acres of land from the bureau. Military Reconstruction Act or simply the Reconstruction Act reduced the secessionist states to little more than conquered territory, dividing them into five military districts, each governed by a Union general

    11. Rec. Cont. 13th-no slavery, 14th –African-Am. Citizens Tenure of Office Act--Johnson impeached yet avoided removal from office. Grant 15th-right to vote Hayes ends Recons. 1877. Federal troops were removed from the South. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

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