The document summarizes key events of Jacksonian democracy: 1) Jackson lost the 1824 election despite winning the popular and electoral votes, claiming his opponent Adams made a "corrupt bargain" with Clay for Secretary of State. This split the Democratic-Republican party. 2) Tariffs caused sectional tensions between the industrial North and agricultural South, with Vice President Calhoun advocating states' rights to nullify federal laws like tariffs. 3) The forced removal of the Cherokee nation on the Trail of Tears occurred despite treaties, with over 40,000 native Americans relocated and one quarter dying along the journey. 4) Jackson's "war on the bank"

1. Jacksonian Democracy-Bullets or Bust
Corrupt Bargain –
• Election of 1824 (4 Dem-Repubs run)
• Jackson wins popular and electoral college
vote. Does not get a majority
• Loses in House of Representatives to Adams
• Claims that Adams promised Henry Clay
(Speaker of House) job as Secretary of State to
win-Corrupt Bargain
• Prompts Jackson to split the party into
Democrats and National Republicans

2. Tariff debate/ Nullification-
• Sectional issue- The north east wants tariffs to
protect industry
• The south doesn’t like the tariff because it makes
their imported goods cost more and they fear
they will sell less cotton to England
• Jackson’s Vice President Calhoun stands up for
the states right to “Nullify” or ignore federal laws
• South Carolina nearly secedes but Jackson
threatens to send the army to enforce federal
law/establish federal supremacy over the states

3. Native American Removal-
• Pressure from settlers for better land in Georgia
• Gold is discovered in the Cherokee Nation
• A “treaty” is signed by a few Cherokee to give up
the land.
• Forced removal takes place in 1838 by the Army.
• Over 40K natives are sent to Oklahoma on foot,
boat or horse with few supplies.
• ¼ of the Cherokee population dies on the journey

4. • War on the Bank
• Jackson sees the 2nd National Bank as an
institution of the elite.
• The bank is resented by most “common” people
• The “Whig” party believes that if Jackson vetoes
the bank that he will look bad in the next election
but most voters actually support it.
• The bank dies and the government puts its
money into small state banks that turn around
and print too much money.
• Too much $= inflation and the economy crashes
in 1837 (Panic of 1837)
• Makes Democrats (Van Buren) look bad and they
lose the next election