H.+Age+of+Jackson

**Age of Jackson (1824-1840) **

 * Organizing Principle:**

//During the "Reign of Jackson," politics became more democratic, the power of the presidency increased, America became more optimistic and expansionistic, and sectionalism supplanted nationalism.//


 * Emergence of the “Common Man” ||
 * Political Changes · Expansion of Suffrage · Nominating Conventions ||
 * Return of Two-Party System · Democrats · Whigs ||
 * Election of 1828 · Details · Popular Campaigning ||
 * __Jackson’s Presidency__ · “King Mob” · Kitchen Cabinet · Spoils System/Rotation in Office ||
 * __Jackson’s Presidency__ · Indian Policy · Indian Removal Act of 1830 · //Worcester// //v. Georgia// (1832) · Black Hawk War and the Seminole War · "Trail of Tears" ||
 * __Jackson’s Presidency__ · "Tariff of Abominations" ||
 * __Jackson’s Presidency__ · Nullification Crisis (Why? How Resolved?) ||
 * __Jackson’s Presidency__ · Internal Improvements and Western Lands (Distribution vs. Preemption) ||
 * __Jackson’s Presidency__ · The Bank War · Pet Banks" · Specie Circular ||
 * 1836 Election ||
 * Independent Treasury ||
 * Panic of 1837 ||
 * 1840 Election · Whig Ascendancy · Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too · Clay vs. Tyler ||
 * Preemption Act (1841) ||
 * Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842) ||