Class 31 Jacksonian Democracy

Using your readings in GML and todays reading in ATF, how would you describe Jacksons relationship to the West?

Test practice: Which of these is true about Frederick Jackson Turner?

1. His grand theory was critical of Jacksons treatment of Indians 2. His grand theory applauded Jacksons treatment of the Indians. 3. Turner redefined American history by insisting that the frontier experience shaped America

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Test practice: Which of these is true about Frederick Jackson Turner?

1. His grand theory was critical of Jacksons treatment of Indians 2. His grand theory applauded Jacksons ideas about a bank. 3. Turner redefined American history by insisting that the frontier experience shaped America

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ATF, Jacksons Frontier and Turners: Paul Wilson

The book presents the works of Frederick Jackson Turner, Thomas Perkins Abernethy, and Arthur Meier Schlesinger. These historians produced three vastly different theories on Andrew Jackson, in large part because of their environment and the period of which they were writing in. For example, Turner produced an argument that Jackson embodied the democratic, individualistic west. With the same opinion that the west strongly affected Jackson, Abernethy strongly argued against this opinion. Ironically, Turner is from the west and held western ideals, while Abernethy was from the east. At a later time period, Schlesinger argued that the two focused too much attention on Western influence, and focused on a different aspect. These differences highlight the importance of the present time, and the truth that each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

ATF: Orezime Uyeh

After reading the different views of historians discussing one single subject, I really enjoyed the great point the authors made on page 145 that the various aspects simply build Jacksons personality. It is the old tale of the blind men describing the different parts of an elephant: the elephant is real enough, but the descriptions are partial and fragmentary. This was a very good quote to overall summarize every historian involved in the Jacksons frontier debate, and it also prompt the reader to keep this in mind when presented with the different views of various historians.

Announcements
W Mar 26 ATF, CHAPTER 6, JACKSONS FRONTIER AND TURNERS ATF response opportunity (you can do a maximum of four of these for credit)

F Mar 28

NO READING

M Mar 31

GML, CHAPTER 11, THE PECULIAR INSTITUTION

W Apr 2

GML, CHAPTER 12, AN AGE OF REFORM

F Apr 4 M Apr 7

NO READING GML, CHAPTER 13, A HOUSE DIVIDED

Historical site/museum visit one-page report

W Apr 9

ATF, CHAPTER 7, THE MADNESS OF JOHN BROWN

ATF response opportunity (you can do a maximum of four of these for credit)

F Apr 11

GML, CHAPTER 14, A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM: THE CIVIL WAR

M Apr 14 W Apr 16 F Apr 18

NO READING NO READING TEST 3 Test 3

 Last class we discussed Industrialization in the North East Today we will finish up with our discussion of the first large group of industrial workers Mill Girls And then turn to presidential politics Jacksonian Democracy

Family strategy

Wages
Mid 1830s $3.25 for a 73 hour work week 5 cents an hour Room and board $1.25 $2.00 surplus

Paternalism in the mills

Time

Boarding houses

Leisure time

Letters

Changes:
Oh! isn't it a pity, such a pretty girl as I Should be sent to the factory to pine away and die? Oh! I cannot be a slave, I will not be a slave, For I'm so fond of liberty, That I cannot be a slave.

Wage cuts and speed ups

 "We learn that extraordinary excitement was occasioned at Lowell, last week, by an announcement that the wages paid in some of the departments would be reduced 15 percent on the 1st of March. The reduction principally affected the female operatives, and they held several meetings, or caucuses, at which a young woman presided, who took an active part in persuading her associates to give notice that they should quit the mills, and to induce them to 'make a run' on the Lowell Bank and the Savings Bank, which they did. On Friday morning, the young woman referred to was dismissed, by the Agent...and on leaving the office...waved her calash in the air, as a signal to the others, who were watching from the windows, when they immediately 'struck' and assembled about her, in despite of the overseers.

1834 Boston Transcript reports on the Strike

Immigrant labor

Not all Mill Workers: Occupations of Women Wage Earners in Massachusetts, 1837

Factories in the South Sweetwater Creek State Park

Jacksonian Democracy:
Age of the Common Man Age of the Democracy Jacksonian Democracy Andrew Jackson Man of the People

Democratic Party is born But this democratization primarily applied to white men only.

Changes in the political arena

Compare and contrast these two pix

George Washington

Henry Clay

An early political attack ad

[the candidate] lost suitcase with 6 ruffled shirts, 6 cambric handkerchiefs, 1 hair brush, 1 toothbrush, 1 nail brush, 1 pair curling tongs, 2 sticks pomatom, 1 box pearl powder, 2 pairs of gloves

Andrew Jackson: Man of the people Old Hickory

Lawyer in TN 1788 (Attorney General) 1795 500,000 acres in Memphis 13 Duels (many over wife) rattled like a bag of marbles Successful soldier Defeats English at Battle of New Orleans Indian fighter: Responsible for obtaining FL and AL; 1/3 TN; 1/5 GA and MS; and 1/10 KY and NC 1818 Spanish Florida Madison controversy Exchange FL for 5 million debt

Andrew Jackson: Slave owner

The following lists were transcribed, with identical remarks, from the Andrew Jackson, II Accounts Books (1845-1877): Men at Hermitage - September 1846 Byron (went to Miss) (Note #3) Polidore (sent to Miss 8th of Dec, 1846 married to Sally in) Phil - do John - do Moses Dick - in Miss Harry Orange Moses William Daniels Tom Peter Smith Jim Charles Ben Washington Alfred Ned Aron Cancer - in Miss Ned Squire Henry - in Miss, married to Adeline -sold George Dick John Campbell George Women at the Hermitage - September 1846 Penny Eliza - married Adaline - married to Henry in Miss Grace - married to S. Donelson (Note #4) Sally - married to Polidore - went to Miss 12/8/1846 Prissy - in Miss Sarah - married to Sampson Old Prissy Nan married to Peter Maria - married to Moses Mary Gincey married to Squire Amanthus Pleasant -died in 1847 C. Sally - married to Ben Sincy - married to Phil - gone to Miss 8.1846 Florida - married Sally married to Dick Jane married Charlotte married to Charles Creasey married to Ben Anny married to John Charlotter married Edy married Dicy in Miss Malinda - died 1849 Molly - married to Tom, died 1846 Mary married to Daniel in 8/1846 Old Nancy died 1849 Old Hannah Gracy married to Alfred Lousia married to Smith Rachel married to John F. Nancy married to Byron in September 1846 Betty married to Ned Hannah married to Aron

Election of 1824
No one had enough votes 12th amendment house selects among top 3 Clay Cant believe that killing 2500 Englishmen would qualify a person for presidency

John Quincy Adams Speech On the role of national government

Connected with the establishment of a university, or separate from it, might be undertaken the erection of an astronomical observatory, with the provision to support an astronomer.It is with no feeling of pride as an American that the remark may be made that on the comparatively small territorial surface of Europe there are existing upwards of 130 of these light-houses in the skies, while throughout the whole American hemisphere there is not one.

 if these powers and others enumerated in the Constitution may be effectually brought into action by laws promoting the improvement of agriculture, commerce, and manufactures, the cultivation and encouragement of the mechanic and elegant arts, the advancement of literature, and the progress of the sciences, ornamental and profound, to refrain from exercising them for the benefit of the people themselves would be to hide in the earth the talent committed to our charge would be treachery to the most sacred of trusts.

Martin Van Buren and the New York Democratic machine (more in favor of states rights)

Andrew Jackson elected, 1828

Inauguration