Chapter 13: The rise of a mass democracy, help!?
If anyone can answer of these questions, it will be gladly appreciated!
1.Why was Andrew Jackson such a personally powerful embodiment of the new mass democracy in the 1820s and 1830s? Would mass democracy have developed without a popular hero like Jackson?
2. Why did Calhoun and the South see the Tariff of 1828 as such as "abomination" and raise threats of nullification over it?
3. Discuss the attitudes, policies, and events that led to the "Trail of Tears" Indian removal in 1837?
4.How did Jackson's "Bank War" demonstrate the powerful uses to which the modern mass democratic political machince could be put? Was Biddle's Bank a real threat to the economic welfare of the ordinary citizens to whom Jackson appealed, or was it more important as a symbol of eastern wealth and elitism?
5.How did the Panic of 1837 and the subsequent depression reflect the weaknesses of Jackson's economic and financial policies? Why was Martin Van Buren unablw to cope with political opposition as Jackson had?
6.Does Andrew Jackson belong in the pantheon of "great" American presidents? why or why not?
7.Andrew Jackson was a southerner and a large slaveholder, yet he nearly led the U.S Army to invade and crush South Carolina when that state attempted to nullify and resist a federal law. Why?
8.Argue for or against: the "Texas Revolution" against Mexico was more about the expansion of American slavery into the West that was about the rights of settlers in Mexico
9.What did two new democratic parties, the Democrats and the Whigs, really stand for? Were they actual ideological opponents, or were their disagreements less important than their shared roots in the new mass democracy?
10. Compare the two party political system of the 1830s "New Democracy" with the first two party system of the early Republic. In what ways were the two systems similiar, and in what ways were they different? Were both parties of the 1830s correct in seeing themselves as heirs of the Jeffersonian Republican tradition rather than the Hamiltonian Federalist tradition?
If anyone can answer of these questions, it will be gladly appreciated!
1.Why was Andrew Jackson such a personally powerful embodiment of the new mass democracy in the 1820s and 1830s? Would mass democracy have developed without a popular hero like Jackson?
2. Why did Calhoun and the South see the Tariff of 1828 as such as "abomination" and raise threats of nullification over it?
3. Discuss the attitudes, policies, and events that led to the "Trail of Tears" Indian removal in 1837?
4.How did Jackson's "Bank War" demonstrate the powerful uses to which the modern mass democratic political machince could be put? Was Biddle's Bank a real threat to the economic welfare of the ordinary citizens to whom Jackson appealed, or was it more important as a symbol of eastern wealth and elitism?
5.How did the Panic of 1837 and the subsequent depression reflect the weaknesses of Jackson's economic and financial policies? Why was Martin Van Buren unablw to cope with political opposition as Jackson had?
6.Does Andrew Jackson belong in the pantheon of "great" American presidents? why or why not?
7.Andrew Jackson was a southerner and a large slaveholder, yet he nearly led the U.S Army to invade and crush South Carolina when that state attempted to nullify and resist a federal law. Why?
8.Argue for or against: the "Texas Revolution" against Mexico was more about the expansion of American slavery into the West that was about the rights of settlers in Mexico
9.What did two new democratic parties, the Democrats and the Whigs, really stand for? Were they actual ideological opponents, or were their disagreements less important than their shared roots in the new mass democracy?
10. Compare the two party political system of the 1830s "New Democracy" with the first two party system of the early Republic. In what ways were the two systems similiar, and in what ways were they different? Were both parties of the 1830s correct in seeing themselves as heirs of the Jeffersonian Republican tradition rather than the Hamiltonian Federalist tradition?