Politics of Jacksonian America

(Democratic) Republican Party

Second Bank of the United States (1816-1836)
          -Panic of 1819

Missouri Compromise (1820)

Election of 1824
         -Andrew Jackson         99 Electoral Votes
         -J.Q. Adams                 84         "          "
         -William Crawford       41        "          "
         -Henry Clay                 27        "          "
Corrupt Bargain
Martin Van Buren
Peggy Eaton

The Bank War
          -Henry Clay
          -Nicholas Biddle
                    -Monster Bank
                    -Pet Banks

Labor Theory of Value
          -Money Power

Nullification Crisis
          -Tariff of Abominations (1828)
          -John C. Calhoun
                    -South Carolina Exposition (1828)

Denmark Vessey (1822)
Ohio Resolutions (1824)
Nat Turner's Rebellion (1831)
Force Act (1833)
Tariff of 1833

Admission to Statehood

 

 
Voter Turnout, 1824-2000

 
      Election of 1824

 
      Andrew Jackson
    & the Monster Bank

 
      Andrew Jackson
   & the Monster Bank

   
      King Andrew I

Parties and Factions