Rise of Popular Democracy

State constitutional amendments

1775, 1776 states began to write state constitutions
Made voting more accessible (Opened the political world)
From republicanism to competitive liberal democracy
Shift from showing no interest in political power to competitive
Embrace of party politics
Political parties are good
In order to vote you needed to own land
Only in five states, Maine Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and
New York allowed black men to vote
New Jersey allowed women to vote until 1807 when it was revoked
George Caleb Bingham (artist who painted famous American scenes) such as Jacksonian
politics
Politicians had to make their case right to the common mam (that was a change)
The County Election (Political parties begin to perfect the tactics for voter
turnout)
No oppositions party in 1820
Sought unity in government
Supported the American System:
Bank of U.S. (B.U.S)
Tariffs
Internal improvement
James Monroe tried to unify all in his cabinet
Currency printed by individual banks
Specie Hard money, gold and silver
First political party was marginalized
Bad Feelings
The Panic of 1819
Post 1815 prosperity
Depression in 1819 (Bubble burst)
Whom to blame?
Old republicans and national Republican
The Missouri Crisis
(1819) Missouri came in as a slave state but Maine was allowed as a free state
Missouri compromise line 36 30; no slavery north of the line
Election of 1824 and the Corrupt Bargain
Regional Favorites
- Andrew Jackson ( South) Slavocracy
- John Q. Adams (New England)
- William H. Crawford (Chesapeake)
 - Henry Clay (West) Internal Improvement (Speaker of the House) Helped to decide
who would win the election
- The corrupt bargain was between Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams
- A dubious Republican
- Attempted to remain neutral in new party system
- An activist federal government
- Public hostility
Election of 1828
Martin Van Buren and party organizations
- Wanted:
- Reorganization of the Old Republican Party
- Restore alliance of planters of the South and the plain Republicans of the North
- Unite people against the money power
- Counter geographical divisions founded on local interests or, what is worse,
prejudices between free and slave holding states
- (Wanted to link New York with the upper south and create large democratic party)
Voter turnout surged to 60%
Adams vs. Jackson
The Age of the Common Man
Unleash democracy onto the nation