OUTLINE AND QUESTIONS ON ANDREW JACKSON 



Outline 



I. Early Years 



(1) Birth and parentage 



(2) Youth 



(a) Experiences during Revolutionary 

 War 



(3) Study of law 



( 4 ) Appointed prosecutor on western fron- 



tier 



II. Beginnings of Public Life 



(1) Tennessee constitutional convention 



(2) In the House of Representatives 



(3) In the Senate 



(4) Judge of Tennessee supreme court 



(5) Military career 



( 6 ) Governor of Florida 



(7) Elections of 1824 and 1828 



III. Administration 



(1) Governmental affairs 



(a) The "Spoils System" 



1. Dismissal of 2,000 employees 



2. Effects 



a. Corruption 



b. Creation of political "ma- 



chine" 



(2) 



(3) 



(4) 



(b)The tariff and nullification 



1. The "tariff of abominations" 



2. South Carolina's threat of se- 



cession 



3. Webster-Hayne debates 



4. Force Bills 



5. Compromise Tariff 



(c) Financial affairs 



1. The fight against the United 



States Bank 



2. Surplus in Treasury 



3. The "Specie Circular" 



4. The panic 



(d) Indian affairs 



1. Black Hawk War 



2. Seminole War 

 Other events 



(a) Arkansas and Michigan admitted 



(b) The Liberator founded 



(c) The Texas question 



(d) Death of Madison and Monroe 



(e) Invention of reaping machine 

 Election of 1836 



(a) Issues 



(b) Candidates 



(c) Results 



Lasting influence of Jackson 



Questions 



What resemblances are there between the life of Jackson and the life of Grant? 



How did the number of employees dismissed by Jackson from government offices 

 compare with the number dismissed in all the preceding administrations? 



To what two Presidents was Jackson violently opposed? 



How has the name of this President become proverbial in politics? 



Tell the story of the beginning of Jackson's hatred of the English. 



When and how did he believe himself to have been cheated out of a high office? 



How was the slavery struggle intensified during this administration? 



Why is it impossible to tell in what state Jackson was born? 



When did Jackson fail of election, though receiving more electoral votes than 

 any other candidate? 



How did the government propose to get rid of the surplus in the Treasury? 

 What were the results of the policy? 



When did Jackson almost precipitate a break with England? 



When and why were resolutions of censure against him passed by the Senate? 



What important battle did he fight with an enemy that was no longer an enemy? 



Who was "the great pacificator," and what part did he play in this administration? 



When did Jackson attack and capture a town on his own responsibility? 



What was the "tariff of abominations" and what part did it play in leading 

 up to the War of Secession? 



