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Ch. 11, Section 1
Main idea: The United States’s political system
changed under Andrew Jackson.
The Impact Today
In the years since the Jackson era:
• Women, African Americans, and other
minorities have won the right to vote and to
participate in the political process.
• Today every United States citizen aged 18 or
older, regardless of gender, race, or wealth,
has the right to vote.
1. Election of 1824
4 candidates
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William Crawford- represented the South (Georgia)
Andrew Jackson- represented the West ( Tennessee)
Henry Clay- represented the West ( Kentucky)
John Quincy Adams- represented Northeast
(Massachusetts)
2. What is a favorite son
candidate?
• A person who received the backing or
support from their home state.
3. Who won the popular vote in
1824? Why did he not become
president?
• Andrew Jackson
• He did not receive a majority
(more than half) of the electoral
votes
4. Why did Henry Clay support
John Quincy Adams?
• Clay wanted to be the Secretary of
State.
5. Who became president in
1824?
• John Quincy Adams
• People accused Clay and Adams of
making a “corrupt bargain” and
stealing the election.
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Election of 1828
6. Democratic Republican candidate:
Andrew Jackson
National Republican candidate:
John Quincy Adams
7. During the campaign, both
parties resorted to
MUDSLINGING- attempting to
RUIN THEIR
OPPONENT’S REPUTATION.
8. Who switched parties to run
with Jackson as his vicepresident?
• John C. Calhoun
• Calhoun supported states’ rights!
9. Jackson won the election by a
LANDSLIDE- an overwhelming
majority.
10. Why did most Americans
admire Andrew Jackson?
• He was just like them…”ordinary man.”
Born in a log cabin.
11. What was President Jackson’s
nickname?
• Old Hickory
• He was tough as a hickory stick.
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12. President Jackson promised
equal protection and equal
benefits for all Americans – at
least white men.
13. By 1828, 22 of the states
changed their constitutions to allow
the people, rather than the state
legislatures, to choose presidential
electors.
14. The Democrats were disturbed
that the federal government had
become a bureaucracy, a system
in which nonelected officials
carry out the laws.
15. What is the spoils system?
• Rewarding political supporters with
government office
15.
16. Caucuses were replaced by
nominating conventions in
which delegates from the state
selected the party’s presidential
candidate.
17. When and where did the
Democrats hold their first
national party convention?
• Baltimore, Maryland
• 1832
• 1832 was the first election in which the candidates
were nominated by national nominating
conventions. Democrats met in Baltimore and
overwhelmingly nominated Andrew Jackson.
Henry Clay was nominated by the National
Republicans at their convention in Baltimore.
18. What is a tariff?
• Fee paid by merchants on
imported goods.
19. In 1828, Congress passed a
very high tariff on manufactured
goods from Europe.
The Northeast welcomed the
tariff because Americans were
more likely to buy American
made
goods.
Buy
American!!!!
20. What did Southerners call the
tariff?
• Tariff of Abominations
Why? Because it forced consumers to buy
American made goods.
21. Some Southerners called for
the Southern states to secede –
break away from the United
States.
22. What was the WebsterHayne debate over?
Do the states have the right to
break away from the Union?
23. President Jackson supported
the preservation of the Union.
“Our federal union…it must be
preserved.”
Vice President Calhoun still
supported states’ rights.
“The Union, next to our liberty
most dear.”
24. What was the Nullification
Act?
• South Carolina’s state legislature
declared that it would not pay the
“illegal” tariffs of 1828 and 1832.
Compromise
•Henry Clay proposed a compromise
bill that would gradually lower the tariff.
The Force Bill allowed President
Jackson to use the U.S. military
to enforce acts of Congress.
**lesson learned- the federal
government would not allow a
state to go its own way without a
fight.
Checking for Understanding
__ 1.
to leave or withdraw
__ 2. attempt to ruin an
opponent’s reputation with insults
__ 3. candidate that receives the
backing of his home state rather
than of the national party
__ 4.
an overwhelming victory
__ 5.
largest single share
A.
favorite son
B.
plurality
C.
mudslinging
D.
landslide
E.
secede
Checking for Understanding
Reviewing Facts
Why did the House of Representatives select the
president in the 1824 presidential election?
No candidate received a majority of electoral votes.
Reviewing Themes
Continuity and Change What election practices used
in the 1828 presidential campaign are still used
today?
Mudslinging, election slogans, rallies, buttons, and staged
events to arouse voter enthusiasm are still used today.
Critical Thinking
Drawing Conclusions What was the main reason
President Adams was not popular with the
Democratic-Republicans?
He tried to make the federal government too powerful.