October+9-13

=October 12, Friday= 1. 2nd Great Awakening 2. Women's domesticity 3. Scientific Achievements 4. Artistic and Literature Achievements 5. Transcendentalism: truth comes to you through your inter light 1. Not everyone in the South owned lots of slaves, some didn't own any at all 2. Radical Abolitionism
 * Chapter 15:**
 * spread through huge "camp meetings"
 * feminization of religion: improved society (reforms)
 * prisons, mental institution, temperance, abolition, gender roles, and suffrage
 * 1848 first large meeting of women to talk about reformation
 * women's rights movement
 * although ill health was still common
 * Chapter 16:**

=October 11, Thursday= Document evaluation on Andrew Jackson, 30 points

=October 10, Wednesday= Mr. Ehrhart absent, work on chapters 14-17

=October 9, Tuesday= Chapter 13 handout due, quiz!!! In class topics
 * 1) ~John Quincy Adams
 * 2) ~Mudslinging in the election of 1828
 * 3) -called Jackson's mother a prostitute and his wife an adultress
 * 4) -accused Adam's of being a 'pimp'
 * 5) ~Andrew Jackson
 * 6) -traits=hot head, spirited, irritable, emaciated
 * 7) 'Symbol of the masses'= common peoples president
 * 8) -inaugural Brawl; Jackson let everyone come to his inauguration, they wrecked the White House
 * 9) ~ Spoils system-people in political power basically gave their friends important political jobs.
 * 10) -Jackson brought younger people into the system, gave his supporters jobs, called it 'rotation in office', he said it was democratic
 * 11) ~ Tariff of Abominations, 1828
 * 12) -protective tariff; trap set by democrats for republicans (republicans walked right into it)
 * 13) -John Calhoun wrote the South Carolina Exposition. It called for nullification of the law.
 * 14) -Jackson said he will send the army to make them pay the tax.
 * 15) ~Trail of Tears
 * 16) -five civilized tribes; created their own government, and defended property rights. Jackson wanted land for white men.
 * 17) -forced uprooting of Indians, they were marched west of the Mississippi.
 * 18) -Jackson refuses to uphold federal law and doesn't listen to the Supreme Court or John Marshall.
 * 19) ~ Bank War-bank held too much power, Jackson didn't like it
 * 20) -Clay wanted to put the issue against Jackson, but Jackson still defeated him in the election of 1832.
 * 21) - Jackson vetoed the recharter.
 * 22) ~Whig Party=anti-Jacksonian, wealthy people, evangelical protestants.
 * 23) -wanted to have a national bank, and increase infrastructure.
 * 24) -for community; against people in power who acted out of self interest
 * 25) ~ Van Buren (Jackson wanted him to be president)
 * 26) -he was basically handed the Panic or 1837
 * 27) ~Panic of 1837=caused by British banks calling in loans, high speculation, failures of wheat crops
 * 28) ~Texas
 * 29) -Americans moved in and they wanted to have slaves, but Santa Anna wouldn't allow it
 * 30) -The Alamo was a big loss for Americans
 * 31) -eventually Texas does get its independence but doesn't come into the union because it would come in as a state that came in with slaves.
 * 32) ~The election of 1840 - High tide of democrac
 * 33) -candidates =Van Buren, William Henry Harrison
 * 34) - made William Henry Harrison look like a common person who lived in a log cabin and drank hard cider; wanted him to look like a common man. "Old Tippecanoe" "Tippecanoe and Tyler too"
 * 35) ~Two Party Systems
 * 36) -Whig Views=national harmony of society and community
 * 37) -Democratic Views=glorified liberty of the individual
 * 38) - similar views= commanded loyalty from people, both appealed to everybody.
 * 39) ~Varying Viewpoints
 * 40) -Jackson was kind of the cause for the economic depression, he was inhumane to the Indians; champion of the common man.