Review 1829 --

Andrew Jackson: Contradictions

• Westerner with NY VP in 2nd term

• Slaveowner with NY VP who later ran with Liberty Party

• Rough but charming

• Nationalist who weakened central gov and protected sections

• Champion of common man, yet very selective with patronage

Jackson

• Disdain for official cabinet – kitchen cabinet, Peggy Eaton Affair

• Inaug mob

• Spoils system

• South Carolina Exposition and Protest

• Democratic advances 1810-1840 see Amsco

Jackson

• Nicholas Biddle

• Chestnut Street (Phila) to Wall Street (NYC)

• Webster-Hayne debate

• Specie Circ and Panic of 1837

• Whig Party

• Independent Treasury Plan of Van Buren

Troubles with the neighbors

• Steamship Caroline helping Canadian rebels

2nd Great Awakening

• Perfectibility

• Progress

• Worth of individual

• Voluntary association

• Reformers well-to-do, middle class

• Find notes

reforms

• Institutional solutions

• Functional education

• Lyceums, colleges

• Sectional (very little South, lack urban)

• Transcend, Margaret Fuller

• Utopian communities (work) – Brook Farm, New Harmony Oneida, Shakers

More reforms

• Neal Dow

• Ten Nights in a Bar Room best seller

• Seneca Falls

• Cult of True Womanhood (or CO Domesticity)

• What to do with locked up people

Westward

• Great American Desert myth

• Rep of Texas – Amer colonists revolt vs strong central gov

• Elect of 1844 – manifest destiny and Liberty Party

• 54 40

Mexican War

• Slidell mission to buy CA

• Guadeloupe-Hidalgo

• Wilmot Proviso, Spot Resolutions demo sectionalism

Other

• Webster-Ashburton treaty – Maine border

• Gadsden Purch – Trans RR

• Free Soilers – (anti-black, free or slave)

Econ devs

• Transport – canals, RRs, steamboats, clippers, federal road

• Lowell system

• Telegraph

Why slavery still persists?

• Econ profit

• Basis of slave society, class system

• Moral beliefs

• Political power at state level

• “"But, as it is, we have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.“ (Jefferson)

• Modern history proves all these wrong, by the way

Slavery effect

• Upper South (“society with slaves”) and Lower South (“slave society”)

• Mountain whites anti-planters

• Elijah Lovejoy lynched in North

• William Lloyd Garrison – immediatist, rights for women

• Nat Turner

• Fred Douglass

Effects on society and indiv behavor

• Review TAJ

• Persistence of family relations

• Everyone profits from enslaved laborers except laborers

When does Civ War start?

• 1850 CA admiss Compro, incl Fug Slave Act

• Martin Delany “slaves in the midst of freedom”

• 1852 end of Whig Party

• Methodists (1844), Baptists (45), Presbyterians (57) all split geographically

When start?

• Ostend Manif

• John Walker

• Bleeding Kansas, “Beecher’s Bibles”, “Border Ruffians”

• 1854 Republican Party b. (who? Why?)

• Sumner-Brooks

• Lecompton Constitution

When?

• Taney (tawny)

• Freeport Doctr

• Panic of 1857

• George Fitzhugh – southern defens of slvry, att on industrialism

• Hinton Helper – southern attack on slvry

• 1860 candidates and party platforms

Civil War

• Review on own