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Election of 1836

U.S 1. Election of 1836. Introduction of Whigs. Began in 1834 Brought together in opposition to “King” Andrew Jackson Jackson crushed National Republicans in 1828 and 1832 Whigs were made about: National Bank and tariffs in South Carolina Fiscal conservatives and states’ rights proponents.

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Election of 1836

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  1. U.S 1 Election of 1836

  2. Introduction of Whigs • Began in 1834 • Brought together in opposition to “King” Andrew Jackson • Jackson crushed National Republicans in 1828 and 1832 • Whigs were made about: National Bank and tariffs in South Carolina • Fiscal conservatives and states’ rights proponents

  3. Election of 1836 • Vice- President Martin Van Buren of New York was who Jackson wanted to take over • Jackson was now 70 • Jacksonites supported Van Buren but not with enthusiasm • Whigs could not come up with a good presidential candidate

  4. Strategy • Whig strategy was to run several different “favorite sons” each with a regional appeal • Hoped to scatter vote so no candidate would win a majority • Then vote would go to House of Rep. AGAIN • William Henry Harrison of Ohio, hero of Battle of Tippecanoe

  5. Van Buren v. Harrison

  6. Election results

  7. Electoral Vote

  8. “Little Magician” • Short, slender, bland and bald • Had resentment from many Democrats • More mild-mannered than Jackson • Inherited Jackson’s numerous enemies • Rebellion in Canada 1837 stirred up ugly incidents along northern frontier and threatened to trigger war with Britain! • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWJQvvMFd5o&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1

  9. Panic of 1837 • Economic Depression • Much of Van Buren’s energy was spent on battling the panic • Basic cause was rampant speculation from get-rich-quickism • But speculation alone didn’t cause the crash

  10. Jacksonian finance • Jacksonian finance, included the Bank War and Specie Circular helped out the bad times • Failures of what crops, ravaging by Hessian fly deepened the distress • Grain prices were forced so high that mobs in NYC, 3 weeks before Van Buren took oath stormed warehouses and broke open flour barrels

  11. Economics • Late in 1836 2 prominent British banks created tremors so British investors called in foreign loans • Resulted in pinch for U.S, combined with previous topics worsened the “depression” • American banks collapsed by the hundreds

  12. Hard times • Factories closed their doors, unemployed workers mulled in streets • Whigs called for: expansion of bank credit, higher tarriffs, subsidies for internal improvements • Van Buren did not like those ideas

  13. One foreign traveler 1837 • “The greatest annoyance I was subjected to in travelling was in exchanging money. It is impossible to describe the wretched state of currency- which is all bills issued by private individuals; companies; cities and states; almost all of which are bankrupt; or what amounts to the same thing, they cannot redeem their issues… and these do not pass out of the state, or frequently, out of the city”

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