summary Beginning in the 1820s‚ a powerful movement celebrating the common person and promoting the “New Democracy” transformed the earlier elitist character of American politics. The controversial election of the Yankee sophisticate John Quincy Adams in 1824 angered the followers of Andrew Jackson. Jackson’s sweeping presidential victory in 1828 represented the political triumph of the New Democracy‚ including the spoils-rich political machines that thrived in the new environment. Jackson’s simple‚ popular
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created large campaigns and held debates. It created a battleground for votes and power. The election of 1824 had five candidates who all called themselves Republicans: John Quincy Adams‚ John C. Calhoun‚ William H. Crawford‚ Henry Clay‚ and Andrew Jackson (Henretta 148). In the early to mid 1800s there were three main political parties: The Whigs‚ The Working Men’s Party‚ and The Jacksonian Democrats. The Whigs‚ mostly wealthy and educated men‚ believed in
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T Jackson DBQ How Democratic Was Andrew Jackson? •- -j- "* - * j ^ i ^ i- •>"• \ v * • i ’ " ’ * ** "- A Document Based Question (DBQ) 65 © 2002 The DBQ Project L 1 Jackson DBQ STUDENT GUIDE SHEET How Democratic Was Andrew Jackson? Directions: Many great names in American history are closely connected with an idea or an event - George Washington and the Revolution‚ Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War‚ Martin Luther King and Civil Rights. Andrew Jackson’s name is tied very closely to democracy
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George Washington‚ elected the first president in 1789‚ set up a cabinet form of government‚ with departments of State‚ Treasury‚ and War‚ along with an Attorney General (the Justice Department was created in 1870). Based in New York‚ the new government acted quickly to rebuild the nation’s financial structure. Enacting the program of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton‚ the government assumed the Revolutionary war debts of the states and the national government‚ and refinanced them with new federal
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got his fame in 1815 when he defeated the British Army at New Orleans with his untrained militia. After this he kept on growing in popularity and was moving up in political status eventually running for office. He lost the election for presidency in 1824‚ and claimed it was done so by a "corrupt bargain" between Adams and Clay. He finally got his presidency in 1828 and most of his votes came from the West and South. When he was in office‚ he made it clear that he would get his way and “he was labeled
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Nathan Jones Dr. O ’Sullivan History 1111 10 September 2010 Democratization in Mid-19th Century America Democracy in the United States became prominent in the early to mid-19th century. Andrew Jackson‚ the 7th President of the United States‚ was inaugurated in 1829 and was best known as the pioneer who mainstreamed democracy in America. While market economy
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republic to the Pacific Ocean. Independence had been won in the Revolution and reaffirmed in the War of 1812. The spirit of nationalism that swept the nation in the next two decades demanded more territory. The "every man is equal" mentality of the Jacksonian Era fueled this optimism. Now‚ with territory up to the Mississippi River claimed and settled and the Louisiana Purchase explored‚ Americans headed west in droves. Newspaper editor JOHN O’SULLIVAN coined the term "MANIFEST DESTINY" in 1845 to describe
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Rinya Kamber AP US 3rd 10/10/11 Jeffersonian Era – DBQ The period between 1815 and 1825 was inaccurately dubbed the “Era of Good Feelings.” Despite the relatively low political opposition and boom of westward expansion and economy‚ bigger problems such as the economic bust as well as the differing beliefs of northern and southern states threatened the strength and unity of the nation during this time. After the war of 1812‚ the surge of nationalistic feelings took place‚ but‚ simultaneously
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Chapter 9 The Confederation and the Constitution 1776-1790 The Pursuit of Equality The Continental Army officers formed an exclusive hereditary order called the Society of the Cincinnati. Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom- created in 1786 by Thomas Jefferson and his co-reformers; stated that religion should not be imposed on anybody and that each person decided his/her own faith. The Philadelphia Quakers in 1775 founded the first anti-slavery society. The 1st Continental Congress called
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Although historically represented as distinct parties‚ the Federalists and the Whigs in fact shared a common political ideology‚ represented many of the same interest groups and proposed similar programs and policies. Assess this. Although the Whig party surfaced forty years after the Federalist party had died out‚ the two separate parties held many of the same ideals‚ and catered to many of the same constituents‚ causing these two parties to be more similar in history than different. The Federalist
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