Presidency Chart – Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)

 

Election of 1828

Election of 1832

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How politics changed in this period

Indian Affairs

Jacksonian Democracy

 

Spoils System (rotation in office)

 

Kitchen Cabinet

 

Use of Veto

 

Whig Party

 

 

Indian Removal Act

 

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)

 

Worcester v. Georgia (1832)

 

Black Hawk War

 

Seminole War

Nullification Crisis

War on the Bank

Tariff of Abominations (1828 – before AJ’s presidency)

 

 

Calhoun’s Exposition and Protest of South Carolina (1828 – before AJ’s presidency)

 

 

South Carolina’s Nullification Ordinance

 

 

Webster-Hayne Debate

 

 

Compromise Tariffs of 1832 and 833

 

 

The Force Bill (1833)

 

 

Clay’s, Webster’s, and Biddle’s effort to recharter the Bank

 

 

Veto of the Second Bank of the U.S. (1832)

 

 

 

Removal of deposits and distribution to pet banks (1833)

 

 

Censure of Jackson

 

Distribution of the surplus (1836)

 

 

Specie Circular (1836)

 

 

Other Issues

Impact of Jackson

Maysville Road veto (1830)

 

Peggy Eaton Affair

 

Charles River Bridge Co. v. Warren Bridge Co., (1837)

 

Strengthening the presidency

 

 

 

Effect on the states