narrow‚ concise‚ and straight to the book type of president. As president Madison forbid trade with Britain and France in the Non-intercourse Act‚ chartered the Second Bank of the United States‚ and declared war against Britain in 1812. 5. Henry Clay Henry Clay was a lawyer‚ politician‚ war hawk and skilled orator who represented Kentucky separately in both the Senate and in the House of Representatives. He served three different terms as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and was
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CHOICE. MULTIPLE Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) By the 1830s‚ which of the following groups was NOT denied suffrage? 1) __D____ A) women B) blacks C) indentured servants D) white males E) Native Americans 2) In the 1820s‚ a two-party system was fostered by 2) _E_____ A) an increasing concern about foreign policy issues. B) the burgeoning population of the trans-Appalachian West. C) changes in the Constitution regarding the party
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Chapter 9-Jacksonian America 1. The Rise of Mass Politics 1. The Expanding Electorate 1. No economic equality‚ but transformation of American politics to extend the right to vote to new groups. Until 1820s most states limited franchise to white landowners. Changes began in West w/ Constitutions guaranteeing right to vote to all white males—eastern states did likewise in order to stop exodus of people 2. Change provoked resistance- MA conservatives wanted property requirement‚ state eventually
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controversy dominated administration- basically ignored heads of govt. depts. of cabinet (except MVB) consulted instead w/ “Kitchen Cabinet”- informal group‚ made up of MVB and western friends didn’t include Calhoun‚ Clay (never forgave for role in “corrupt bargain” of 1825)‚ or Webster (rep of favorite political target- privileged elite) used social distance to separate himself from other politicians- defended Peggy Eaton (wife of sec. of war‚ flamboyant reputation‚ shunned by respectable ladies
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The Presidential Election of 1828 was different from any other presidential election that had ever taken place in America. Why? This was the first presidential election in which all males could vote. Andrew Jackson campaigned as the candidate of the ordinary people. In 1828‚ the ordinary non-landowners became Jackson’s strongest supporters‚ and with their votes‚ he won the Presidential Election of 1828. He championed the cause of the ordinary man throughout his entire presidency. BITS (acronym
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benefiting especially farmers and planters of the West (e.g. expanded voter’s rights)‚ and to keep the United States together. When South Carolina threatened to secede and then to nullify two tariffs in response to the “tariff of abominations” via John C. Calhoun‚ Jackson made clear he would not tolerate this or further seditious acts against the United States. He also believed that a powerful national bank hindered the potential for economic growth and increased prosperity for the average citizen‚ and instead
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* Second Bank of the United States-chartered in 1816 part of American System; Clay wanted to use bank as campaign issue; Jackson vetoed bill to charter the bank again in 1832 and refused to put federal money into the national bank but put it into pet banks which put the nation into an economic depression‚ Panic of 1837; also united Henry Clay‚ Daniel Webster‚ and other Jackson haters to form the Whig party which saw Jackson as “king” instead of president * Early-mid
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rivalries with others‚ such as Vice President John C. Calhoun of South Carolina‚ which led Jackson to accept policies and veto those in which Calhoun would be identified with. For example‚ during the first year of Jackson’s administration‚ some issues concerning internal improvement were halted‚ one being the Maysville Road Bill. For Van Buren‚ it was easy to bring Jackson into opposition to internal improvements and thus to federal programs with which Calhoun had long been identified (Tindall/Shi P.336)
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Henry Clay by using his
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