Andrew Jackson – The Age of the Common Man

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Whigs- Adams-Clay

(Similar to Federalists)

Pro-Bank

Pro-Tariff

Pro-National Improvements- Roads, Railroads, Canals

Democrats- Jackson

Best organization

Pro-States Rights

Anti-Bank

Anti-Tariff

Anti-Federal funded transportation

Martin Van Buren- key ally, and successor

Strong political organizer

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Whigs= traditional term for people in England who tried to weaken the king

Wanted expansion of Federal power

Encourage Industrial and commercial development

Strengthen the ties of the country with consolidated economic system

Cautious of Westward Expansion

Favored Banks, Corporations,

Constituents

WASPs

Northeast

Merchants

Manufacturers

Wealthy planters in the South

Those that wanted stronger ties with the industrial North

Ambitious Farmers and merchants of the West

Migrants from Northeast to the west

Aristocrats

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Democrats

Expand economic and political opportunity (Common man?- not traditional elites)

Gov Should be limited

Gov should remove obstacles to opportunities

Union is essential to opportunity

Wanted to attack corrupt privelege

South

Some North and West

Immigrants- NYC

Irish-

Germans- Catholic

Locofocos- (Radical)

Workingmen

Small business

Wanted to attack monopoly and Privilege

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Internal Improvements

Period of rapid economic expansion

Canals/steamships, roads, railroads,

Whigs-Clay support strong improvements paid for by Tariff

Jackson is mixed in his policy

Believed in strict interpretation of Constitution- Federal Gov has limited role-

Example Maysville road- Clay wants fed $ to pay for road, Jackson says no. Vetoed bill

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Internal Improvements

National Road

Erie Canal-links Great Lakes to Eastern Seaboard

Canals-3,326 miles of canals, cost $125 mill

Goods-East to West

Agri-produce West to EastCities

Railroads-most in Northeast

1840- 3,328 miles cost $17000 per mile

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Eaton Affair and Kitchen Cabinet

Peggy was wife of Eaton a cabinet minister (Secretary of War) was excluded by other cabinet wives

Jackson intercedes

Calhoun’s wife ignores request