HIST 172 Ch 11

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Pre-Civil War
- Image of American have always been the farmer
- Now is an image of a settler or urban worker because of moving west
- (Manifest Destiny)
- Non-farming wagers more common
Voting
- People are not landowners
- Most white males can vote
Suffrage
- Definition: Ability vote
- Issues of ownership and race
Economics
- Growth of corporations
- National Bank is formed on east coast
Andrew Jackson
- Part of a new movement in American politics
- Represented himself as the "Common Man" to appeal to voters
- Took part in:
- Moving Indigenous groups west
- Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
- Federal govt. passing legislative moving groups west to reservations and out of mid-west and southern states so white settlers can live there
- Federal govt. sneaky:
- Talked to parts of population and made treaties with them
National Republicans
- Strong federal govt.
- Regulated export economy
- When it came to commerce, they supported tariff (tax to protect internal trading and national subsidy transport)
Jacksonian Democrats
- Anti-govt.
- Believed east had too much control
- Wanted to:
- Shift power to the presidency
- Dissolve National Bank
- Remove Indians from East
Andrew Jackson in Politics
- Wanted to take more power to presidency
- Ignored Congress
- Threatened to kill them individually
- Saw Indians as an obstacle
- Against Federalism but had to deal with it
- He made promises that Indians would be removed
Georgia
- Jackson: Indians were not physical compatible on the land
- Complained Indians were not cleared out
- Moving them across state lines was a federal issue
Removal Act of 1830
- Supposed land trade
- Indians that were removed, bodies found in burial sites
- Federal govt. vs. Indigenous People
- Ended in slaughter of Indigenous people moving westward
Jackson as President
- 1828
- Appealed to voters:
- Policies
- Fear of Indians as savages so agree to remove
Monroe Doctrine

The desire to avoid entaglement in European wars

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HIST 172 Ch 11

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Flashcards on the Pre-Civil War

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