1. 1820’s

2. Remember the 1810’s?
Embargo
Tariff
War
Industrialism

3. American System
Economic Independence
Transportation
National Road
1825 – Erie Canal
1825 – Steam
Locomotive
Tariff
Tariff 1816
Bank of US
McCulloch v
Maryland

4. Reaction to Industrialism
• Second Great
Awakening
• Why?
• Charles Grandison
Finney
• Message?
• Settlement of Texas
• Stephen F. Austin
• Why go?
• Rules?

5. 1824
• Tariff of 1824 – South
not happy?
Why does the Tariff
impact the South
negatively while aiding
the North?
(Any connection to
Missouri
Compromise?)

6. Election of 1824

7. The Corrupt Bargain?
J. Q. Adams A. Jackson
Electoral vote 84 99
States carried 13
7
Popular vote 113,122
151,271
Percentage
30.9%
41.3

8. Henry Clay
“The Deal Making Man”
Kentucky vs. Tennessee
Opinion of Jackson
Role of Secretary of State
“A Man on the Rise”
Calhoun is VP!!!

9. Voting Changes in the 1820’s
• 1824 – 350,000 voters
Most states had property
requirements
• 1828 – Over 1 million voters
Who are these folks?
Why support Jackson?

10. Election of 1828
• Andrew Jackson – “Old Hickory”
Jacksonian Democracy
Average Joe, tough, one of us
Democratic-Republican Party
• John Q. Adams
Elitist, out of touch
* Jackson wins Big! (Calhoun keeps his job)

12. Jacksonian Democracy
• “Kitchen
Cabinet”
• Spoils
System
Who’s in Power?
Who is out of
power?

13. Tariffs
• 1816
1824
1828
• Tariff of 1828 “Tariff of Abominations”
Cotton Price level, but prices up

14. South Carolina Exposition
• Brought up concept of “Nullification”
State may nullify a law it finds
unconstitutional

15. Hayne & Webster Debates
South Carolina
Massachusetts