Sunday, November 25, 2007

Andrew Jackson 3 11/5/07

Democrats and Whigs

Democrats emphasis on oppurtunity

Spoils System

Whigs call for Economic Union

Anti-Masons

Cultural Issues

Penny-press

German and Irish

Assimilation vs. Removal

Silk Road

Clay's American System

Henry Clay

Speaker of the House, Whig

Pushing for internal improvements

Roads, canals

Proponent of nullification act

States rights vs. federal rights

Panic of 1837

Starts because of speculative fever

High unemployment

Failed road projects

Bread riots

Distribution Act

Distributes land equally, but people aren't making money

Log Cabin Campaign

William Henry Harrison

Starts raining at inauguration speech, he talks for 3 hours

Contracts pneumonia and dies within his first month in office

Ran under common man campaign

Replaced by Tyler

Tyler breaks with Whigs

Flip-flops

Aroostook War

Lumberjacks from America and Canada fighting over timber rights

Webster-Ashburton Treaty

Treaty of Wang Hya

Jackson's Legacy

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