OUTLINE AND QUESTIONS ON JOHN TYLER 



Outline 



I. Early Yearn 



(1) Birth and parentage 

 ; Mucatlon 



(3) Law study 



(4) Marriage 



II. Public Life 



(1 ) In Virginia legislature 



(a) Defense of Madison's policies 



(2) In House of Representatives 



(a) Independence of thought and ac- 



tion 



(b) Attitude toward National Bank 



(c) Attitude toward extension of slav- 



ery 



(3) Aa governor of Virginia 



(4) In United States Senate 



(a) Attitude on important questions 



(b) Break with the administration 



(c) Split in Democratic party 



(5) Nominated as Vice-President, but de- 



feated 



(6) Presidential campaign of 1840 



(a) Candidates 



(b) Issues 



(c) Character of campaign 



(d) Results Harrison and Tyler 



elected 



ill. Administration 



(1) Death of Harrison and elevation of 

 Tyler to Presidency 



(2) Warning to Congress 



(3) Quarrel with Whigs 



(a) Causes 



(b) Results resignation of Cabinet 



(4) Legislation 



(a) Tariff of 1842 



1. Concession necessary 



(b) Rlver-and-harbor bill 



(5) Boundary question 



(a) Webster- Ash hurt on Treaty 



( 6 ) Texas questions 



(a) Opposition of northern Whigs to 



annexation 



(b) Treaty of 1844 



(c) Annexation 



(7) Internal affairs 



(a) Construction of telegraph 



(b) Dorr's Rebellion 



(c) Patroon War 



(d) Mormon troubles 



(e) Bunker Hill Monument dedicated 



(f) Admission of Florida 



(g) Fremont's Colorado explorations 

 (h) Brook Farm established 



IV. Relation to Confederacy 



( 1 ) Convention for adjustment 



(a) Rejection by Congress of resolu- 

 tions 



(2) Secession of Virginia 



(3) Tyler elected to Congress of Confeder- 



acy 



Questions 



Show from Tyler's policy in the House of Representative*, in the 

 the Presidency that his dominant characteristic was independence. 



How many "accidental Presidents" were there before Tyler? How many have 

 there been since? 



What was Tyler's attitude toward slavery? Why did he vote against the Mis- 

 souri Compromise? . 



\\lir n di.l ho stand alone in the Senate in his vote on an important question? 



What did Tyler consider the "original sin against the Constitution," and why? 



Characterize the campaign in \vhi--h Tyler waa elected to the Vice-Preaidency. 



In what linht did he look upon his own election? 



What was his "poorly concealed threat" against Congress, and how did that body 

 receiv. 



What great statesman suggested that Tyler resign the Presidency? What were 

 the circumstances that made possible such a suggestion? 



What do these words suggest: Brook Farm; Patroon system; Fremont; Dorr's 

 Rebellion; Nauvoo? 



