Andrew Jackson

MORE DEMOCRACY! More suffrage, or the right to vote, 21Candidates 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 CabinetUnofficial advisors or friends

Spoils System Giving government jobs to friends, family, and political supporters

“To the victor, goes the spoils”

Worcester v. GeorgiaCaseGeorgia wants to remove Indians from their land

DecisionJohn Marshall rules the Cherokees are a separate nation & didn’t have to leave Georgia b/c they (Indians) had a FEDERAL treaty

Trail of TearsForceful removal of Indians from Georgia to Oklahoma

States Rights – 1828

Vice President John C. Calhoun “Tariff of Abominations” Doctrine of Nullification

1. Nullify the law, would not be enforced within the state

2. The state would have the right to secede (withdraw) from the union.

40% TAX!!!

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Force Bill of 1833 the Great Compromiser, repealed SSSW

SSSW

STATES RIGHTS

SECTIONALISM

WESTWARD EXPANSION

SLAVERY

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

Whig Party American system, protective tariff, federal system, national currency

England Martin Van Buren; “Old Tippecanoe” Harrison dies; John Tyler

Harrison

Van Buren

J. Tyler