NOTE-TAKING GUIDE: Of the People: A History of the United States CHAPTER 11 “Jacksonian Democracy: 1820 – 1840”
COMMON THREADS
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Why was the Bank of the United States so controversial in the early
republic?
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How did the market revolution affect wage labor?
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What actions and policies of the Democratic-Republican presidents,
1800–1824, laid the groundwork for Jackson’s breakaway movement?
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Did the territorial expansion of the republic require the removal of
Native Americans?
OUTLINE
Common People and the Political Economy of Democracy
Settlers
The Political Economy of Free Labor
Suffrage Reform
Opposition to Special Privilege and Secret Societies
Jackson and the National Republicans
Changes in the Democratic Republican Party
James Monroe and National Republicanism
America and the World: The Monroe Doctrine
The Election of 1824 and the “Corrupt Bargain”
The Adams Presidency and the Gathering Forces of Democracy
The Election of 1828
A Policy of Removing Indigenous People
Jackson and Native Peoples
The Removal Act
American Landscape: Liberty and the Land: Cherokee Removal
History, Destiny, and the Disappearing Indian
The Bank War
Jackson’s Opposition to the National Bank
Dismembering the Bank
The Specie Act
The Growth of Sectional Tension
The Political Economy of Southern Discontent
South Carolina’s Protest
The Nullification Crisis
Conclusion
WHO?
WHAT?
Black Hawk
Nullification
The “corrupt bargain”
National Republicanism
The Monroe Doctrine
Special privilege
The Second Bank of the
United States
Antimason Party
REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. What about Andrew Jackson’s life or career would have appealed to
voters in 1828?
2. What was so democratic about the Jacksonian Democrats?
3. Why did Jackson, a southerner, oppose the South Carolina Exposition
and Protest? Why did other southern states not support South
Carolina in the nullification crisis?
4. How did Native Americans fight removal?
5. Why might white Americans have found the image of the disappearing
Indian comforting? Did it share any cultural attractions with the
colonization movement?
NOTES: TO FOLLOW UP / QUESTIONS TO ASK IN CLASS