HST 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Jacksonian Democracy, Log Cabin, Uptodate
7 Nov 2016
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Martin van buren"s inability to deal with the economic crisis provides opportunity for the anti-jacksonians (whigs) to strengthen: nicknamed van ruin . By 1840: the whigs adopted the new-style democratic politics and campaigning. From wealthy slaveholding family from virginia, lives in a 16 room mansion in ohio. Tyler"s agrarian/state"s rights philosophy put him at odds with congress (which was. President john tyler dominated by whigs: the accidency , becomes president when harrison dies (only a month after taking office) Whigs expel him from the party: whig program is strangled by tyler. North is becoming more urban and industrial (from the market revolution) South remains primarily agricultural based on cash crops and slavery: old south as anti-modern (david blight, [southern historian]) The north wants slavery kept out of the new lands in the west. South wants slavery expanded to the west. 1821: mexicans win their independence -> taking over all of spain"s former southwest.
