Tuesday, March 11th Bell Work: Please turn in your SFI sheet (HW) to the homework bin and pick up a presidential review worksheet from the front table. Take the first 10 minutes of class to complete the worksheet.

Daily Agenda:• Bell Work: Presidential

Word Association• WOD intemperate• Review: The Age of

Jackson• Lecture: The Age of

Jackson• Collaborative Pre-

Writing: Jacksonian DBQ

Essential Questions:• Although Jackson wanted

to decrease government power, how did he actually increase it?• Although Jackson was a

defender of the common man, what groups of people was he not a defender of and how?

Homework: Complete DBQ Pre-planning (Read background essay, analyze documents, group documents in preparation for essay writing.

intemperate– lacking restraint; excessivePronunciation for Word

• Categorize the following words into two groups:

• What is their connection?

Word Categorization March 11th, Block 2

overboard calm

unbridled temperate

moderate extreme

intemperate– lacking restraint; excessivePronunciation for Word

• Categorize the following words into two groups:

• Synonyms for intemperate: unbridled(unrestrained)

• Antonyms for intemperate: moderate (normal range)

Word Categorization March 11th, Block 2

overboard calm

unbridled temperate

moderate extreme

What does this have to do with intemperate?

intemperate– lacking restraint; excessivePronunciation for Word

• Complete the following sentence:

“Intemperate is like an angry coach, because…”

Synectic Comparisons March 11th, Block 4

intemperate– lacking restraint; excessivePronunciation for Word

• Complete the following sentence:

“Intemperate is like an angry coach, because they often don’t listen to reason in their ire, and can be prone to outbursts.”

Synectic Comparisons March 11th, Block 4

A little over a minute into this video, Bobby Knight shows his tendency toward intemperance.

Age of Jackson• What was the 2nd Party System? What did each party stand

for?• What is the spoil system? How did Andrew Jackson defend it?• How did the Peggy Eaton Affair influence the politics of the

Jackson adminstration?

Indian Removal Acts• Jackson signs laws that would move Tribes in the east to

“Indian Territory” – Oklahoma• Worcester v. Georgia (1832) – John Marshall would rule

against movement. • Jackson’s response – “Marshall has made his decision, now let

him enforce it.”• Who did the people side with?

Civilized?• 5 Civilized Tribes• Cherokee• Chickasaw• Choctaw• Creek• Seminole

• Why named that?

• Sequoya• Cherokee leader• George Guess• Creates constitution

and written language.

Trail of Tears

• Army came to force Cherokees to move to the Indian territory• 4,000 of the 15,000 would die on the way.

How did it effect Florida?• 2nd Seminole War• Began outside of Fort King by Osceola (Fort King = Ocala)• Dade Battle (108 of 110 soldiers killed)• Ft. Cooper (1836 – Cove of the Withlacoochee)• Why couldn’t the U.S. Army defeat the Seminoles?• How would they “win?” (Attrition, Mosquito Boats)• Costliest Indian War in U.S. History• Seminoles never surrender (in all 3 wars)• Those not captured, escaped to South Florida

Age of Clay?• Henry Clay would promote his American System• Protective Tariffs• Bank of the U.S.• Internal Improvements

• Basis of the Whig ideals.

Nullification Crisis• 1828 Tariff – Tariff of Abomination• Most hated parts of it.• John C. Calhoun suggests nullification.

• Where does he get this idea?

• 1832 Tariff• Compromise by Henry Clay, but S.C. still did not like it• Southern Carolina Exposition – Nullifies law

• Force Act – Jackson will defend Federal law• South Carolina backs down on Tariff, but nullifies Force Act

Bank War• Jackson was against the B.U.S. Why?

• Felt it was against common man• Personal reasons from 1819 Panic and Wildcat Banks

• Henry Clay pushes the Bank to be Rechartered four years early to use in his 1832 campaign.• Jackson vetoes bill

• Bank War – Jackson moves money out of B.U.S. to his “pet banks”• Nicholas Biddle (President of B.U.S) – “Czar Nicholas”

Clay vs. Jackson• Maysville Road veto• Why – officially and

unofficially?

• 1832 Election• Dem – Jackson• Whig - Clay

State Rights or Federal Power• Webster – Hayne Debate in Senate• About B.U.S., Tariff, and Nullification

• Calhoun and Jackson opposing each other• Jackson actually increase Federal Power as President

Webster: "popular government, erected by the people; those who administer it are responsible to the people; and itself capable of being amended and modified, just as the people may choose it should be."

Hayne: Nation was “simply an association of sovereign states, from which individual states could withdraw at will.”

More Financial issue• 2nd Coinage Act (1834) – ratio of gold to silver – 1 to 16.• Surplus 1835 to 1837• No National Debt for our only time in U.S. History in 1837

• Specie Circular (1836) – all lands must be purchased with gold or silver – not paper money.

• Panic of 1837 – Recession would last 5 years• Would Jackson be blamed for it? Who would?

Reflection Questions• How could it be said that the Age of Jackson is actually the Age

of Clay?• Although Jackson wanted to decrease government power, how

did he actually increase it?• Although Jackson was a defender of the common man, what

groups of people was he not a defender of and how?• How did the issues of Tariff, BUS, and Internal Improvements

show the differences between the Whigs and Democrats?

Van Buren• 1836 Election• Van Buren hand-picked by Jackson• Whigs try to force it to House and have 3 regional candidates run.• Harrison, Webster, White

• Martin Van Buren – 8th President (1837-1841), Democrat• OK – “Old Kinderhook”• How is Van Buren much like George H.W. Bush (#41) in history?

New State?• Texas broke away from Mexico and formed their own country.• (more about that in the next unit)

• They applied for statehood, but both Jackson and Van Buren did not press the issue.

• What scared Jackson and Van Buren enough to not let them in?

I thought Jackson killed the Bus?• When Van Buren became President, the nation had just entered the

Panic of 1837.• What was one of the main reasons for that economic downturn?• Van Buren pushes through the Independent Treasury Bill.• Independent Treasury = B.U.S.• How does Jackson like this?• What happens to his support of Van Buren?

After Marshall…

• Jackson would appoint Roger Taney as Chief Justice• Taney Court – more for states rights than federal

power• Most famous case – Dred Scott decision

Our Greatest President?• 1840 Election - Harrison• “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too”• Log Cabin Campaign• Did he ever live in a cabin?

• Hard cider campaign

• Meanwhile, how is Van Buren viewed?• This is the one election that any Whig

running probably would have won. But did Henry Clay run this time?

• Whig – Harrison• Democrat – Van Buren• Anti-Mason Party….

One really Great Month• 9th President – William Henry Harrison, Whig, 1841• Dies after one month in office• “His Accidency” takes over – 10th President John Tyler (1841-45)• Does a V.P. that takes over have same powers?• Whigs finally have a man in office, but Tyler doesn’t act like a Whig.• Internal Improvements Bill vetoed• Independent Treasury removed (no more BUS again)• Entire cabinet resigns and replaced with Democrats• How does Clay like all this?

Diplomacy• Caroline incident (1837) – Americans supplying Canadian insurgents• Creole incident (1841) – Slaves that escaped to Bahamas on ship

were said to be free by British• Aroostook War – Fighting over Maine / Canada Boundary• Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842) – Resolved all the issues above

Rise of 3rd Parties• What is the importance of 3rd or minor parties?• Minor/3rd Parties of the early 1800s:• Anti-Mason Party• American (Know-Nothing) Party• Liberty Party• What were each of them against?

Homework:Read Background Essay for DBQ, analyze (make notes on) documents, and figure out how you would group the documents to answer the question.