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Jacksonian DemocracyChapter 10, Section 1
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Election of 1824 Several Republican candidates ran Three were favorite sons (supported by home
states rather than national party) Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, & John Quincy Adams
No one candidate received majority of electoral vote
House prepared to vote to decide Clay & Adams made an agreement to use
Clay’s influence as Speaker of the House to help get Adam’s elected over Jackson
John Quincy Adams was elected president
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Election of 1824
Political Parties 1828 Democratic
Republicans Supported Andrew
Jackson Favored states’ rights
& mistrusted strong central government
Many Democrats were frontier people, immigrants, or city workers
National Republicans Supported John Quincy
Adams Wanted strong central
government Supported federal
measures, such as road building & a national bank, that would help the economy
Many were merchants or farmers
Election of 1828 Both parties resorted to mudslinging or
attempts to ruin their opponents reputation
John C. Calhoun (Adam’s former VP) switched parties & sided with Jackson
Jackson won votes of frontier people & Southerners = won in a landslide
Election of 1828
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Election of 1828: State Results
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What helped Jackson be elected?
Jackson became a national hero during the War of 1812
His nickname was “Old Hickory” because he was as tough as a hickory tree
Jackson was seen as a “common man” and small farmers, craft workers, & others supported him
Suffrage, or the right to vote, had been expanded Property requirements for voting were relaxed or
eliminated
Jackson’s Inauguration
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Jackson Assassination Attempt
Spoils System “To the Victor Goes the Spoils” President Jackson replaced many federal
workers with his supporters Goal of the Democrats = shake up the
federal bureaucracy They thought ordinary citizens could handle
any government job Spoils System = practice of replacing
government employees with the winning candidate’s supporters
“To the Victor Goes the Spoils”
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Kitchen Cabinet Jackson put unqualified people in his
Cabinet & did not meet with them He met with other advisors in the kitchen
of the White House. These advisors became known as the
Kitchen Cabinet
A Crisis Over Tariffs Tariff: a fee paid by merchants who imported
goods Tariff of Abominations: name Southerners
gave to the highest tariff ever It was passed to protect Northern manufacturers
from foreign competition (Americans were more likely to buy American-made goods)
South had to pay higher prices for European goods
How did the South Protest
the Tariff?
V.P. John C. Calhoun argued that a state or a group of states had the right to nullify, or cancel, a federal law it considered against state interests
Some Southerners call for Southern states to secede, or break away, from the U.S.
Nullification Crisis Nullification: the idea that a state
had the right to cancel a federal law it considered unconstitutional
Congress (1832) passed a new lower tariff & Pres. Jackson had Congress pass a Force Bill, allowing military action to enforce acts of Congress
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John C. Calhoun
Nullification Crisis
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