political rights to white males; the limited meaning of Jacksonian democracy for women and African Americans; the revival of evangelical Christianity with the Second Great Awakening; the growing debate over the issue of slavery; and the rise of the Whig Party. Learning Objectives (3 points each) DAY 11 (pgs 293-301) • Describe the emergence of universal white male suffrage. Since Americans were victorious in the American Revolutionary War‚ the ideology of becoming a democracy has become
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PART ONE: ISSUE #7 Alexander Hamilton was born on January 17‚ 1755 in the Caribbean. He attended Kings College‚ which is now Columbia University‚ in New York. Throughout his career(s)‚ he was a military officer‚ lawyer‚ financier‚ and political theorist. Hamilton was elected to the Continental Congress from New York‚ but he resigned to study law. He served in the New York Legislature‚ and he was the only New Yorker who signed the U.S. Constitution. Many people considered Alexander Hamilton to
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Andrew Jackson began to pursue a laissez-faire policy after he revoked the second central bank of the United States.; This led to the rise of American barbarism in the Nineteenth Century. More brutal monetary power has exploited labor. Therefore‚ the American government and the central bank that betrayed the interests of the people were the main culprits for the decline of the Democratic Party. Most Americans are eager to move westward and explore new areas of life. Most of them are farmers. Because
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‘A failure of Charles II’s opponents rather than his own actions defeated the Exclusion movement’. How far do you accept this judgement of the years 1678-85? Exclusion was the policy pursued by what became known as the Whig faction within Parliament in an attempt to exclude Charles’s brother James‚ Duke of York from the succession because he was a Catholic. The view that Charles was becoming more absolutist‚ because of the actions of Danby‚ led to fears that James would be even more so‚ like the
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politicians because it was a comfortable compromise between the abolitionists and the slaver-holders National Convention at Baltimore‚ Democrats chose General Lewis Cass as their candidate of presidency (pro-slavery) Political Triumphs for General Taylor Whigs met in Philadelphia and chose Zachary Taylor as their candidate for presidency‚ Henry Clay was not chose because he had many enemies The Free Soil Party emerged from antislavery men on the North who didn’t trust Cass or Taylor. (supported internal
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experience and accept the fact that they no longer remained in control of their own lives. Whether the people held their stances of neutrality or if they remained repelled by politics‚ they were still forced to live under war’s calamitous conditions. The Whigs and other political parties hoped to politicize the people‚ but in reality the brutality of the war left them depoliticized and lessened the patriotic feelings that they possessed before. The lives of Westchester’s ordinary people had been changed
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Chapter 2 Notes: Indian & European Relations in the 1600s Spain in North America 1560s: Spanish give up search for Indian gold. Focus on defending their empire from English (who were plundering treasure ships and Caribbean ports) and French Protestants (who began to settle in Florida though the Spanish had already claimed the land). Spanish establish fort at St. Augustine‚ Florida (1565) to protect route of the treasure fleet. They also massacre French Protestants. Raids by Native Americans
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U.S. History Europe England: Economics – enclosure o Economy began to revive o Enclosure: property owners fence off land for grazing Squatters kicked off Hiof land => landless population o Colonies = solution for landless peoples Merchant capitalism o Merchants in look for investment opportunities Development of joint-‐stock companies Nationalism o Spain = Britain’s greatest rival o Defeat of Spanish
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At the time‚ revolutionaries were called ’Patriots’‚ ’Whigs’‚ ’Congress-men’‚ or ’Americans’. They included a full range of social and economic classes‚ but a unanimity regarding the need to defend the rights of Americans. After the war‚ Patriots such as George Washington‚ James Madison‚ John Adams‚ Alexander Hamilton‚ and John Jay were deeply devoted to republicanism while also eager to build a rich and powerful nation‚ while Patriots such as Patrick Henry‚ Benjamin Franklin‚ and Thomas Jefferson
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pass the Act in 1829 and were offended by this. The Whigs were content on getting into office and knew that if they pushed the issue of parliamentary reform‚ the Tories would split even further. The Duke of Wellington claimed that that the system in place at the time was as near perfect as anyone in Britain could have hoped for. There was protest against this and his resignation followed. William IV‚ the new king‚ called upon Earl Grey and his Whig party to form a government and having made a Reform
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