ELECTION OF 1824• How does this election map show sectionalism?• Who do you think the winner should be?

Jackson versus JQA and Clay:2 new parties form

Democrats• Followers of Jackson• States rights

– State banks– Low taxes

Whigs• Followers of Clay• Nationalism:

– Bank of US– Internal improvements– Tariffs

Jackson versus “political enemies”

• “spoils system”- government jobs given to political supporters of the party in power

• Jackson fires 10% of government officials, replacing them with DEMOCRATS

Jackson v. Supreme Court and Cherokees

• Enacts forced relocation of Cherokee even though Supreme Court ruled they had a right to stay in Georgia

• “Trail of Tears”

Jackson vs. John C Calhoun and South Carolina Nullification

• South Carolina nullifies a Tariff• VP Calhoun supports this “states right”• Jackson threatens military force

Jackson vs. Nicholas Biddle and the National Bank

• Vetoes National Bank in 1832• New use of veto power!!• Wins re-election• Puts money into “pet banks” in states– Leads to economic chaos

Jackson: Man of the people or TYRANT?

Solutions to the “Indian problem”

• Assimilation/ Civilization:– Washington, Jefferson- Natives would become

farmers, adopt Christianity, individually own land, learn to read and write…. Become “Americans

• Removal:– Jackson- civilization will never work- need to find

some place to settle the Natives in the west• KEY QUESTION: Why did people in the 1830s

support Indian Removal?

Trail of Tears

KEY QUESTION: Why did people in the 1830s support Indian Removal?

• Why did Jackson or Boudinot think Indian Removal was in the best interest of the Cherokee?

• Do you believe them? What parts sound sincere/ believable?

• Why might some people at the time have believed that Indian Removal was a reasonable policy?

• How have our attitudes changed/ stayed the same since the 1830s?

• http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/akh10.socst.ush.exp.trail/trail-of-tears/