HIST 2055 Chapter : 2nd American Party System
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2nd american party system: jackson chooses martin van buren as his successor, whigs become the opposition party to jackson"s democrats took the term whig (traditionally anti-monarchy) to make a statement on. Jackson"s king-like behavior usually farmers and business and commercial interests (former federalists also became whigs) Farmers stop buying goods from the north, start laying people off, lots of cotton prices collapsed in 1837; glut in the international market grain failures in north unemployment. Harrison gives his inaugural address (longest in american history) possibly to prove how erudite he was contracted pneumonia and died (shortest presidency in american. Tyler wants to bring texas in to the union. Whigs try to block this expansion (also have anti-slavery element) Tyler sees this as what would be his crowning achievement: whigs run henry clay, and democrats worry about tyler. Tyler implies that he won"t run as a third-party candidate if democrats put forward a pro-annexation candidate.
