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Post-Jackson America

Post-Jackson America. APUSH 4.2. Van Buren. 1836 Election Van Buren hand-picked by Jackson Whigs try to force it to House and have 3 regional candidates run. Harrison, Webster, White Martin Van Buren – 8 th President (1837-1841), Democrat OK – “Old Kinderhook”

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Post-Jackson America

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  1. Post-Jackson America APUSH 4.2

  2. Van Buren • 1836 Election • Van Buren hand-picked by Jackson • Whigs try to force it to House and have 3 regional candidates run. • Harrison, Webster, White • Martin Van Buren – 8th President (1837-1841), Democrat • OK – “Old Kinderhook” • How is Van Buren much like George H.W. Bush (#41) in history?

  3. New State? • Texas broke away from Mexico and formed their own country. • (more about that in the next unit) • They applied for statehood, but both Jackson and Van Buren did not press the issue. • What scared Jackson and Van Buren enough to not let them in?

  4. I thought Jackson killed the Bus? • When Van Buren became President, the nation had just entered the Panic of 1837. • What was one of the main reasons for that economic downturn? • Van Buren pushes through the Independent Treasury Bill. • Independent Treasury = B.U.S. • How does Jackson like this? • What happens to his support of Van Buren?

  5. After Marshall… • Jackson would appoint Roger Taney as Chief Justice • Taney Court – more for states rights than federal power • Most famous case – Dred Scott decision

  6. Our Greatest President? • 1840 Election - Harrison • “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” • Log Cabin Campaign • Did he ever live in a cabin? • Hard cider campaign • Meanwhile, how is Van Buren viewed? • This is the one election that any Whig running probably would have won. But did Henry Clay run this time? • Whig – Harrison • Democrat – Van Buren

  7. One really Great Month • 9th President – William Henry Harrison, Whig, 1841 • Dies after one month in office • “His Accidency” takes over – 10th President John Tyler (1841-45) • Does a V.P. that takes over have same powers? • Whigs finally have a man in office, but Tyler doesn’t act like a Whig. • Internal Improvements Bill vetoed • Independent Treasury removed (no more BUS again) • Entire cabinet resigns and replaced with Democrats • How does Clay like all this?

  8. Diplomacy • Caroline incident (1837) – Americans supplying Canadian insurgents • Creole incident (1841) – Slaves that escaped to Bahamas on ship were said to be free by British • Aroostook War – Fighting over Maine / Canada Boundary • Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842) – Resolved all the issues above

  9. Rise of 3rd Parties • What is the importance of 3rd or minor parties? • Minor/3rd Parties of the early 1800s: • Anti-Mason Party • American (Know-Nothing) Party • Liberty Party • What were each of them against?

  10. Transportation and Communication Revolution • American System of Clay pushes for more Internal Improvements • such as canals and roads • Steamboats improved and in 1830s railroad lines starting (B&O first in 1830) • Samuel Morse invents telegraph in 1844. • How does that change communication?

  11. More Inventions • Cyrus McCormick – 1834 mechanical reaper • Charles Goodyear – 1839 – vulcanization of rubber • Elias Howe – 1846 – sewing machine (Isaac Singer improves it) • John Deere – 1847 – steel plow

  12. Birth of unions • Early unions from Lowell Factory Girls • 1834 – Factory Girls Assoc. • 1845 – Female Labor Reform Assoc. – Sarah Bagley • Commonwealth v. Hunt – said Unions and strikes are lawful • What is Collective Bargaining?

  13. Meanwhile in the south… • “King Cotton” and the “peculiar institution” • Planters control economy, politics, and society • What about “plain folk?” • -Over 90% did not own slaves • -up-country farmers • Slavery • Urban vs. Rural slaves • House vs. Field slaves • Pidgin – slave language • Sambo – accepted slavery • myth of happy, old slave • 1831 – Nat Turner’s rebellion – 55 whites killed

  14. What about women? • How did the Industrial Revolution and Agricultural Revolution effect women? • Good – • Oberlin College (Ohio) – 1837, 1st to accept females • Bad – • Cult of Domesticity

  15. Immigration • Where were the immigrants from in the early 1800s? • What about in the mid- 1800s? • 1840s Irish Potato famine • German economic and political changes • What is the difference between Irish and German immigrants in treatment? Why? • Nativism • American (Know-Nothing) Party • Where do they settle? Why not in South? • What is the effect of factory conditions?

  16. Reflection questions • What ways were the following Presidents like Jackson and different from Jackson (Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler)? • How did inventions help farmers and women? • How is Henry Clay’s influence shown in the 1830s and 1840s? • Why are there 3rd parties and why were the ones in the mid 1800s formed?

  17. Links • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XcDeRJ_Osc – Tippecanoe and Tyler Too • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcXmzLJ4AHI&list=UUZYs757tACChkS-vjS1m66Q&index=53&feature=plcp – review video, industrialization • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjL12QOI9fk&list=UUZYs757tACChkS-vjS1m66Q&index=51&feature=plcp – review video, south • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGDRnNneGvQ&feature=fvwrel – presidents song

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