CFHS AP US History

5th period notes

Missouri Compromise
1820->
Slavery is now becoming a moral issue and is considered wrong. They don't want slavery.

All were candidates for 1824 election:
Andrew Jackson: won popular vote in electoral college (32 short)
Adams
Clay
Crawford

-If no candidate gets majority-> the top 3 go to house of representatives-> Clay is out

-Crawford has a stroke leaving Clay and him out.
-Clay goes to Jackson-> if you make me secretary of state, you will win. Jackson says no.
-Clay goes to Adams and says the same thing. Adams says yes->and it works (called the corrupt bargain)
-Jackson is very upset and plots revenge on them
-In 1828 Jackson wins presidency
-Monroe Doctrine-> written in 1823 and declared that as SA is independent form Spain and Europe wants to recolonise them. Britain asks US to help keep the SA Countries. US says why don't we just do it ourselves. President Monroe passes doctrine saying that British must stay out, if they come in then we will fight. If they follow it then we will stay out of their wars.
-Jackson made the spoil system-> he put in many of his own people from his own campaign into the government systems jobs->bad (Jackson was converting the government) ->good (those people had been there a while and the country was changing and they needed some new people in there)->(new ideas)
-Jackson is criticized
-Jackson wants to get rid of Indians because he "couldn't protect them"
-problem that Indians are in the way of white settlers
-Georgia ->they tried to take Indian Cherokee land, Cherokee went to court (they thought they were citizens and they wanted to become a nation->they come together and write a constitution and become farmers)
-Georgia gets very angry and later comes back saying that it was unconstitutional.
-Georgia declares that they aren't a state and everything they say is null and void. Jackson says that he can't do anything to help. He thinks he has no authority to declare anything. He proposes to move them.
-Cherokee don't want to move and go to court->and when they get there->(John Marshall Court-> Cherokee Nation vs. GA)->Supreme Court says they can't help->go back to Marshall Court (Woodchester Vs. GA) Indians can be a nation in GA.
-Jackson is shocked at the big mess and says Marshall is wrong. Jackson says eh will not help enforce this with the executive branch.
-Jackson is replaced by Van Buran
-14,000 Indians pushed out. Thousands die->trail of tears