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John C. Calhoun

John C. Calhoun (1782–1850) was a congressman and senator from South Carolina and a vice president of the United States under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Calhoun played an influential role in the Nullification Crisis during Jackson’s presidency. After the passage of the Tariff of Abominations in 1828, Calhoun proposed state nullification of the law in South Carolina, arguing that states could block the enforcement of federal laws not adopted as Constitutional amendments. Though South Carolina eventually followed Calhoun’s...

Glossary Term – Person

Andrew Jackson

Born on the western frontier of the Carolinas, Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) was the seventh president of the United States and the first from west of the Appalachians. Jackson rose from poverty to a career in law and politics, becoming Tennessee’s first congressman, a senator, and judge on the state supreme court. Although he would later gain a reputation as the champion of the common people, in Tennessee he was allied by marriage, business, and political ties to the state’s elite. As a land speculator, cotton planter, and attorney, he...

Andrew Jackson, “To the Cherokee Tribe of Indians East of the Mississippi [circu

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Andrew Jackson to the Cherokee Tribe, 1835

Elected president in 1828, Andrew...

David Crockett to Charles Schultz, December 25, 1834 (Gilder Lehrman Collect

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Davy Crockett on the removal of the Cherokees, 1834

In this letter, written in December 1834, Davy Crockett complains about President Andrew...

Thomas Glascock to Andrew Jackson, April 30, 1818. (Gilder Lehrman Collection)

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The Massacre of American Indian allies, 1818

On April 23, 1818, Captain Obed Wright of the Georgia militia ordered an attack on a Chehaw village, which resulted in the slaughter of several American Indians. In a letter written a week after the attack, Brigadier General Thomas Glascock reported it to his superior officer, General Andrew Jackson. Glascock’s account of the Chehaw affair is important not only for its description of how 230 militiamen killed “seven men . . . one woman and two Children” but also for how it shaped Jackson’s response to the massacre.

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William Jennings Bryan to I. J. Dunn, January 4, 1895 (GLC07189)

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William Jennings Bryan and the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, 1895

In 1895, Williams Jennings Bryan wrote to I. J. Dunn, an Omaha lawyer and president of the Jackson Club, to...

Teaching Resource

Political Battles of the Jacksonian Era - The Bank War

Reading 1:It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth cannot be produced by human institutions. In the full enjoyment of the gifts of Heaven and the fruits of superior industry, economy, and virtue, every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just...

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Jacksonian Democracy

Reading 1: The aristocracy of our country...continually contrive to change their party name. It was first Tory, then Federalist, then no party...then National Republican, now Whig....But by whatever name they reorganize themselves, the true democracy of the country, the producing classes, ought to be able to distinguish the enemy. Ye may know them by their fruit. Ye may know them by their deportment toward the people. Ye may know them by their disposition to club together, and constitute societies and...

Teaching Resource

Common Man and Contradictions: A Mock Trial of Andrew Jackson

Overview

The election of Andrew Jackson in 1828 marked a change in American politics. For the first time a presidential candidate had been elected from west of the Appalachian Mountains, marking an end to the streak held by wealthy eastern elitists. Jackson represented the emergence of a new middle-/working-class America. The war hero from the Battle of New Orleans who did not have a college education, chewed tobacco, and dueled with pistols to defend his wife’s honor reflected the ideals of the western portion of the United States...

Teaching Resource

Perspectives on the Trail of Tears

Introduction

In this lesson, student groups will design and create a poster containing facts about the Trail of Tears as well as a collage and concluding statement expressing the group’s feelings about the event. 

Background

The Trail of Tears was the result of Andrew Jackson’s policy of Indian Removal in the Southeastern United States. While Jackson’s designs on Indian territory east of the Mississippi River involved Indian nations such as the Cherokees, Seminoles, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and...