APUSH Unit 6 Textbook Questions 
Text Questions Pgs. 234-243
1.What fears were present in the minds of most Americans as they entered an era of economic change/industrialization and westward expansion in the early 19c?
Some feared that the nations rapid growth would produce social chaos and insisted that the countries first priority must be to establish order and a clear system of authority. Others thought the greatest danger was privilege and that the society’s goal should be to eliminate the favored status of powerful elites and make opportunity more widely available.
2.What groups were excluded from this widening of political opportunity? Why?
Farmers, laborers, African Americans, women, and Native Americans because they wanted to challenge the power of eastern elites for the stake of the rising entrepreneurs of the south and the west.
3.How have historians differed over the nature of Jacksonian
Democracy?
Historians tended to see the politics of Jackson and his supporters as a forerunner of their own generations battles against economic privilege and political corruption.
4.How did the ideology of the "Albany Regency," led by Martin Van
Buren, change peoples' views concerning political parties?
The refuted the traditional view of a political party as undemocratic, they argued that only an institutionalized party, based in the populace at large, could ensure genuine democracy.
In the new kind of party, ideological commitments would be less important than loyalty to the party itself. Preservation of the party as an institution would be the principal goal of the leadership. Above all, it must have a permanent opposition. 5.How did the spoils system fit into Jackson's "democratic" plans?
What other means did he use to bring more people into the political process? He said “[Official duties] could be made so plain and simple that men of intelligence may be readily qualify themselves for their performance.” This
allowed common people to join politics, a lot like the Party Convention, which
1.What fears were present in the minds of most Americans as they entered an era of economic change/industrialization and westward expansion in the early 19c?
Some feared that the nations rapid growth would produce social chaos and insisted that the countries first priority must be to establish order and a clear system of authority. Others thought the greatest danger was privilege and that the society’s goal should be to eliminate the favored status of powerful elites and make opportunity more widely available.
2.What groups were excluded from this widening of political opportunity? Why?
Farmers, laborers, African Americans, women, and Native Americans because they wanted to challenge the power of eastern elites for the stake of the rising entrepreneurs of the south and the west.
3.How have historians differed over the nature of Jacksonian
Democracy?
Historians tended to see the politics of Jackson and his supporters as a forerunner of their own generations battles against economic privilege and political corruption.
4.How did the ideology of the "Albany Regency," led by Martin Van
Buren, change peoples' views concerning political parties?
The refuted the traditional view of a political party as undemocratic, they argued that only an institutionalized party, based in the populace at large, could ensure genuine democracy.
In the new kind of party, ideological commitments would be less important than loyalty to the party itself. Preservation of the party as an institution would be the principal goal of the leadership. Above all, it must have a permanent opposition. 5.How did the spoils system fit into Jackson's "democratic" plans?
What other means did he use to bring more people into the political process? He said “[Official duties] could be made so plain and simple that men of intelligence may be readily qualify themselves for their performance.” This
allowed common people to join politics, a lot like the Party Convention, which