28: Ushering in the Age of Jackson

History That Doesn't Suck

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🗓️ 26 November 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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“May God Almighty forgive her murderers as I know she forgave them. I never can.” This is the story of a democratizing America. John Quincy Adams barely has his presidency off the ground and Andrew Jackson’s “common man” crew is already starting his presidential campaign. This election gets ugly fast as each side tells lies so vicious it’s possible they cause or contribute to Rachel Jackson’s death! After Andrew’s rambunctious inauguration, the now widower president stands up for the honor of Mrs. Margaret “Peggy” Eaton in the “Petticoat Affair,” and lets South Carolinians sounding off about states’ rights over some tariffs know that “disunion ... is treason.” Too bad Old Hickory can’t completely quell that secession spirit … Finally, we end on a hard note as the Jackson Administration’s support of Indian removal results in the “trail of tears.” We’ll get the full story, but for a short description, I can’t do better than historian Jon Meacham. I’ll let him say it: “Not all great presidents were always good.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.5	Welcome to History that doesn't suck. I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story.
0:44.0	Rachel Jackson is fatigued. The woman's traveled to 12 miles from her plantation home,
0:50.9	the hermitage, out to Nashville to do something she has zero interest in.
0:56.2	Buy clothes for her new role as the first lady of the United States.
1:02.3	That's right, John Quincy's on his way out of the White House. It's late 1828, and Rachel's
1:09.1	husband, General Andrew Jackson, has made the New Englander not the first but second president
1:14.9	to only get one term. What can I say, like father-like son, hey John Quincy?
1:21.0	If you didn't get that joke, please go back and listen to episode 18. Also, no disrespect to the
1:27.8	Adamses. But in truth, this election was no laughing matter. It was hideous, thought in the
1:34.9	most dire of proverbial gutters, with the most egregious, inventive, flat out fabricated, lies
1:42.0	reported as fact imaginable. And some of these malicious lies took aim right at Mrs. Jackson.
1:49.6	Andrew's done his best to shield his sweetheart from these dirty verbal barbs.
1:54.6	He's always been protective of her, but she's also had a rough year.
1:59.6	This summer, the death of their teenage adopted Indian son, Lincoljia Jackson,
2:05.2	devastated Rachel. And in the past few months, the heavy set, dark featured 61-year-old
2:11.8	hasn't had the easiest time catching her breath either. Further, those heart palpitations
2:17.2	are concerning. So the last thing she needs is the added stress of political campaign slander.
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