UNITED STATES HISTORY I
LECTURE OUTLINE SIX
- THE MONROE DOCTRINE (1824)
- THE ELECTION OF 1824
- William Crawford as the caucus candidate
- John Calhoun
- John Quincy Adams
- Henry Clay and the "American System"
- Andrew Jackson as the "X" Factor--beneficiary of many frustrations after the Panic of 1819
- various significances of the presidential election of 1824
- JOHN QUINCY ADAMS AND THE "PERILOUS EXPERIMENT"
- Adams's expression of economic nationalism in the face of public opposition
- Martin Van Buren's restructuring of political parties
- Democratic-Republicans vs. National Republicans
- "Looking to Yesterday" and the reassertion of Jeffersonianism
- 1828 Tariff of Abominations--efforts to get support for AJ
- THE ELECTION OF 1828
- reflected the atmospheric characteristics and the institutional features of the new, democratized politics
- witnessed the return of active competition between two political parties
- OVERVIEW OF THE PRESIDENCY OF ANDREW JACKSON
- The ironies of his presidency
- sought to restore an older vision of Jeffersonianism and agrarianism YET
- initiated a new interpretation of the presidency AND
- both initiated and benefited from a new era of democratized politics
- AJ and the Jacksonians represented the culmination of several tendencies or trends
- "Looking to Yesterday"--a resurgence of agrarianism and Jeffersonian orthodoxy
- fear of "wheeling and dealing"
- development of democratic nationalism
- AJ also instituted a new understanding of the presidency
- the people themselves decide public policy
- viewed himself as the tribune of the people
- use of the veto
- the President could determine the constitutionality of a bill
- respect for the ordinary citizen and individual opportunity
- AJ AND THE EATON MALARIA
- AJ AND THE NULLIFICATION CRISIS
- South Carolina in the 1820s
- South Carolinians' reactions to tariffs
- John Calhoun and the Exposition and Protest (1828)
- the theory of nulllification and the concurrent minority
- Webster-Hayne Debate
- AJ's Jeffersonian views of state rights coincided with a deep love of the Union
- The Jefferson Day Dinner--AJ vs. John Calhoun
- South Carolina's Ordinance of Nullification in 1832
- AJ's Nullification Proclamation and the Force Bill
- Compromise Tariff of 1833
- short-term and long-range effects of the Nullification Crisis
- how the Crisis contributed to the new vision of the presidency
- AJ AND THE BANK WAR
- The Bank War saw the culmination and merger of several trends
- "Looking to Yesterday"--resurgent agrarianism and the reassertion of Jeffersonian orthodoxy
- democratic nationalism
- redefinition of the presidency
- AJ's personal objections to the BUS
- different groups objections to the BUS
- Nicholas Biddle's crucial mistake
- an analysis of AJ's veto message of July 10, 1832
- resentment of privilege
- respect for equality of opportunity and individualism
- THE ELECTION OF 1832
- further evidence of the atmospheric characteristics of the new, democratized politics
- furter evidence of the institutional features of the new, democratized politics
- further evidence of a new understanding of the presidency
- REACTION TO THE BANK VETO AND THE "BIDDLE PANIC"