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Andrew Jackson. MORE DEMOCRACY!. More suffrage, or the right to vote , 21 Candidates chosen in National Party Conventions , instead of caucuses ( private meetings ) Candidates adopted platforms, or statements of beliefs as well as ideas
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MORE DEMOCRACY! • More suffrage, or the right to vote, • 21 • Candidates chosen in National Party Conventions, instead of caucuses (private meetings) • Candidates adopted platforms, or statements of beliefs as well as ideas • Electoral college members chose by public primaries instead of by state legislatures
Kitchen Cabinet • Unofficial advisors or friends
Spoils System • Giving government jobs to friends, family, and political supporters “To the victor, goes the spoils”
Worcester v. Georgia Case • Georgia wants to remove Indians from their land Decision • John Marshall rules the Cherokees are a separate nation & didn’t have to leave Georgia b/c they (Indians) had a FEDERAL treaty
Trail of Tears • Forceful removal of Indians from Georgia to Oklahoma
40% TAX!!! States Rights – 1828 • Vice President John C. Calhoun • “Tariff of Abominations” • Doctrine of Nullification • Nullify the law, would not be enforced within the state • The state would have the right to secede (withdraw) from the union.
States Rights – 1832 • Declaring the tariffs to be null and void, secede from the union • Treasonous, Hang Calhoun, send federal troops into S. Carolina • Force Bill of 1833 • the Great Compromiser, repealed • SSSW
SLAVERY SSSW SECTIONALISM STATES RIGHTS WESTWARD EXPANSION
Second Bank of the U.S. • Henry Clay & Daniel Webster • Nicholas Biddle
State banks & farmers • Vetoed the charter • Jackson vs. Clay
Pet banks • NYC • King Andrew • they felt that Jackson had gained too much power
RESULTS Van Buren • Whig Party • American system, protective tariff, federal system, national currency • England • Martin Van Buren; “Old Tippecanoe” • Harrison dies; John Tyler J. Tyler Harrison