Age of Jackson

Hey everyone, good afternoon. Welcome back to another review podcast, right? This time it's talk about the age of Andrew Jackson, right, the age of Jackson. Hopefully it helps you kind of keep in mind some of the key content, right, for a later part of this US history course. And let's keep going not to try to waste too much time. Okay, so the age of Jackson kind of begins, you know, remember, have a little bit of context right knowing that Andrew Jackson has that background, the US military, right, spending some time as a general and working his way up through the ranks, especially with the Ballam New Orleans, right, the last battle of the War of 1812. And especially that being a very convincing battle, kind of skyrocketed as popularity and, you know, made him, you know, sort of a household name, right, in the United States. There's other kind of, you know, situations he's involved in, right, in particular in Florida, in pacifying the natives in the southeast, especially the creek and groups like that. But, you know, the big thing is, of course, but it's how we get to the election of 1824. He's ready to challenge for the presidency. So that election of 1824, again, we have a very crowded field, right, includes name like Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, just to name a few. But it becomes pretty clear, right, from the outset, the results of that election that, you know, Jackson for sure has the most popular votes, but no candidate got the majority of electoral college votes. So we seen this before, right, where the decision then goes to the House of Representatives. And then things get there, get very highly political. They get very regional, right, based on the different kind of factions within the Congress and so forth. And eventually, John Quincy Adams is chosen as the winner of the election of 1824. Remember, there's a big outrage for a lot of people in particular, especially from the South and West, people that back Jackson. And later on, of course, they label that the corrupt bargain because Henry Clay received the position of a Secretary of State. And some people think it was kind of a trade-off, right, of Clay helping John Quincy Adams get the White House, and it would turn Clay being rewarded with that job. Very good. Not a ton to know about as far as the term for John Quincy Adams, right, it's really difficult. You know, there is, of course, passage of that very controversial, terrifying, terrible abominations, but we'll come back and talk about that here in a few moments. Very good. So fast forward, right, we have kind of a rematch of the election of 1824 again in 28 with John Quincy Adams running against, or running against now, Andrew Jackson, soon to be President Andrew Jackson. And again, by this time right, that narrative has been building for a long time, a rallying support for Jackson. We have the beginning of kind of mass politics, right, celebration of the common man, the use of rallies, of parades, mudslinging, all those things becoming really big thing. But that's why we call it the age of Jackson is. A lot of people see it as kind of the emergence of the common man and common man politics taking on a kind of a new level, a national level. So far up to this point, it's been a lot of the founding father generation. It's kind of a new political climate that's rising during this time, right? Very good. And included in that change, right, is the expansion of the suffrage of voting rights, right? And again, this is done by eliminating that property requirement that had been in place for, you know, almost all of US history, right, for voting. So this kind of ushers in what we call universal white male suffrage. Very good. From there, some of the other kind of big issues, you know, to talk about is, of course, Jackson's kind of backing as support for the spoiled system, right? And this is that kind of informal system of rewarding political patrons or friends with a lot of federal jobs, right? Putting people in place that are loyal to you and so forth. You know, it's kind of always been around to a certain extent, but you actually for sure is the most public about it and the most kind of aggressive with some of this policies regarding that spoiled system. Good stuff. From there, we jump into what we call the notification crisis, right? So again, initially, some of those kind of issues right going from the, but the results you from that tariff passed under John Quincy Adams is the, how the South feels about that, right? Which is that prices are going up, trade is declining. And because they are very dependent on goods from other places, this was an inconvenient tariff, one that wasn't, you know, made with the southern, you know, view and mind or their lifestyle in mind. So again, ultimately, this culminates, right? In South Carolina's reaction or even, you know, secession is mentioned and getting the whole notification theory, right? Of does the state really have to follow a federal mandate, even if it's not in their best interest? And that's the kind of push and pull. And ultimately, this sets up, you know, the leader of South Carolina's reaction, right? John Calhoun versus his former friend, right? Andrew Jackson, you know, leading to a lot of threats on both sides, but eventually with the force bill, right? And Jackson saying, you will follow it or I will use the military if necessary, eventually both sides are able to kind of reach an agreement on a reduced tariff over time. But again, just kind of a snippet, right? Or preview of how tense just the relationship is in this federalist system that we have or federalism system with the states and the federal government and, you know, power over who and so forth. Very good. Again, you don't need to know a ton, but just, you know, a lot of the early stuff with Jackson Myers and a lot of controversy where there'd be the notification crisis for South Carolina, the whole peg of Eden the fair, right? With that drama that kind of broke out and broke up the cabinet of Andrew Jackson. From there, we basically launched right into the Indian removal act, right? Passed in 1830 under Andrew Jackson. And again, this kind of, you know, coming around the same time as a Supreme Court case of War Chester versus Georgia, you know, Justice John Marshall, in one of his later rulings, supported the Cherokee tribe and, you know, tried to defend them from Georgia saying that Cherokee have a right to that plan and Georgia does not have any power over them. You know, getting the key thing here for Jackson is kind of paving the way to beginning the process of removal, right? With passage of that act and then ignoring War Chester versus Georgia and that ruling, you know, setting up for, of course, what eventually will be the trail of tears several years later. Very good. Keep in mind those five civilized tribes, right? The Cherokee, the Chickasaw, the Creek, I'm not forgetting the Seminole, I don't think I'm forgetting one more, the Creek, Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, that's the one I was forgetting, sorry. But again, we call them the five civilized tribes because of their, you know, kind of assimilated culture, right? They've adopted some of the, you know, traits of American culture, whether it be slavery, whether it be adopting English language and so forth, very good. So the actual trail of tears right takes place in 1838 to '39, it's under the presidency of Martin Van Buren and get the goal is to relocate these natives all the way west of the Mississippi, when it's mostly today, modern day Oklahoma, but the conditions are what, you know, gives this kind of trail its name, right? Many, many casualties do you get disease, lack of supplies, right? Exposure, and just how the kind of a whole situation was carried out. So, you know, one of the big, you know, kind of interesting events, for sure during Jackson's time and that setting up the motion, you know, all these things in motion, and Van Buren having it kind of executed when he is in office. Very good. And last few topics, right, was Jackson's War with the Bank, you know, in a nutshell, the bank was due for renewal, right, under their chairman Nicholas Biddle, and you know, that became the kind of hot topic or big topic in 1832 in that one where Jackson seeking re-election, and Jackson basically makes the bank target number one for his party for himself, and kind of identifying it as a symbol of the rich, a symbol of, you know, a time when the common man didn't have much of a voice. So, you know, getting the bank's kill kind of in two ways, with not renewal of the charter, and then eventually with all those deposits being withdrawn by Jackson and his, you know, and his people stuff, and relocating that money to those pet banks, those are kind of the huge things going on there. And then lastly, we finish off a little bit of literature and art. Again, just, you know, how literature is kind of really coming to its own, kind of finding its footing, right, in the early 1800s, with the works of people like Melville, Washington Irvings, Sleepy Hollow, Edgar Allen Poe, and his short stories and poems, Nathaniel Hawthorne, right, Scarlet Letter, so really kind of impressive time where we start to see, you know, a more distinguishable identity for some of the American literature of urging and stuff. Very good. And in the case of some of like Poe, someone who's going to be kind of world renowned and world famous later on with his works. And then for art, the main thing was, you know, it's focused on natural landscapes, especially with that Hudson school movement, right, that of kind of the beauty of America, its natural landscapes, natural features, mountains, rivers, streams, all that stuff. And then John James Autobahn's work with Birds of America, you know, really kind of establishing, you know, how much America has to offer with its natural beauty, with its different species and unique species. So it's kind of so important to effects on the early sort of preservation and early societies looking to, you know, get involved in things like, you know, protecting animals and all that later down the road. Very good. Let's see, some of that, I'm trying to think of other things. Oh, you know, for the exam, I'm getting maybe good to know a little bit about the rise of that other party, right, after that beer and takes office, which is the wig party, right, that pops up for a brief time period in the mid 1800s. But again, the divide is there like, you only had for a long time, right, the democratic republicans or the democrats, but those regional biases were there, right, we talked about them in class, slavery, the regionalism with, you know, the North's expansion of industry and all that stuff. So, you know, as long as you don't kind of the basics of the makeup of those parties and the regional dynamics you should be okay. But thanks so much for taking time. for being a little long, have a great day. Until next time, bye.