HIST 2055 Chapter : OCT 27 OUTLINE
Document Summary
Politics in the age of jackson (1824-44): democrats and whigs. Major policy debates of the jackson years: economic policies, the bank. Leaders of 2nd bank realize jackson hates it but they assume most other people like it: they"re facing deadline (1836 their charter ends) they want to renew it before the election. Jackson sets out to kill the bank individual state banks (its basically illegal) Deveopments after jackson (note change from previous outline: van buren. Jackson"s main man (former vp: he wins the election, he pretty much does everything jackson wanted to do, panic of 1837 (falling price of cotton, british pulls out their credits) (depression) Jackson didn"t help that: state banks are loaning a ton of money (cause jackson put the money into the state banks) Indian removal (trail of tears: the only money the federal government will take for tariff and whatnot is hard money- Internal improvement? improvement: distribution of land, state level.
