SILENTLY amp independently What impact did the Erie Canal have on New York State amp trade within the United States Leading up to the election of 1828 Republicans from the Era of Good Feelings split into two camps ID: 626458
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What impact did the Erie Canal have on New York State & trade within the United States?Slide2
Leading up to the election of 1828
Republicans from the Era of Good Feelings split into two camps
National Republicans - John Quincy Adams
Democratic-Republicans - Andrew JacksonSlide3
John Quincy Adams
Andrew JacksonSlide4
“Old Hickory”
Jacksonites - planter hickory poles for their “hickory-tough hero”
Jackson = rough frontiersman & a champion of the common man.
Except he was a wealthy planter who owned many slaves
Denounced Adams - corrupt aristocrat & that the people had been thwarted (prevent someone from accomplishing something) by a backstairs bargainSlide5
“Oak” Adams
Incumbent President
Adamsites - adopt the oak as the symbol of their oakenly independent candidate
Though he was an aristocrat (nobleman), was far from corruptSlide6
mudslinging:
the use of insults and accusations, especially unjust ones, with the aim of damaging the reputation of an opponent
Adams Supporters
Jackson’s mother was a prostitute & his wife an adulteress
Blackboarded handbills shaped like coffins, recounting his numerous duels & brawls and his hanging of 6 mutinous militiamen.Slide7
“General Jackson’s mother was a Common Prostitute, brought to this country by the British soldiers! She afterwards married a MULATTO man with whom she had several children, of which number GENERAL JACKSON is one.”Slide8
Jackson Supporters
Pres. Adams purchased (with own $$) a billiard table & set of chessmen.
Jacksonites = “gaming tables” & “gambling furniture” for the “presidential palace”
Critics of the large sums of $$ he received over the years in federal salaries
Got a servant girl for the lust of the Russian Czar (he was a pimp)Slide9
And the winner is. . . .
Andrew Jackson with a 178 to 83 electoral count voteSlide10
Spoils System:
the practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters.Slide11
Spoils System
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