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The Jacksonian Era Study Guide Directions
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| The Jacksonian Era Study Guide
Directions: On a separate sheet of paper, answer the following questions in short form.
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What have historians often called the period in American history from 1824 to 1850?
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For whom was this period named?
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What change occurred in the political life of the American nation during the Age of Jackson?
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What three factors contributed to increased popular participation in state and national politics in the years following the War of 1812?
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Define the franchise.
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How did Andrew Jackson personify (represent) this new “democratic spirit”?
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How did Jackson achieve fame?
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How did Jackson achieve wealth?
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What did Jackson’s economic success suggest about opportunity in the American society?
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What did Jackson’s election as president indicate to boys growing up in poor white American families?
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What reform movement was sparked by the Jacksonian Era’s new democratic spirit?
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As democracy was increasing for white males during the Jacksonian Era, what situation were American Indians facing?
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What four things characterized the changing nature of American politics “in the age of the common man”?
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By the mid-1820s, what type of suffrage existed in the West?
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Define suffrage.
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Define universal white manhood suffrage.
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What two types of voting requirement did universal white manhood suffrage eliminate?
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During the Jacksonian period, what action did many of the older states take regarding voter qualifications?
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How did these changes affect the number of eligible voters in the older states?
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How did the increase in the number of eligible voters affect voter participation during the Age of Jackson?
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What presidential election do historians believe attracted the highest percentage of voter participation?
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What percentage of Americans voted in the 1840 election?
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What factor contributed to the high percentage of voter participation in the 1840 election?
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What campaign techniques did both major political parties use by the 1840 election?
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What political party that had been severely weakened by the War of 1812 completely disappeared in the 1820s?
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How did the emergence of Andrew Jackson as a national leader affect the Democratic-Republican Party?
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Who led the Whig Party?
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What third party was organized in the early 1850s and what was this party’s core belief?
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Define nativism.
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What pledge did the Know-Nothings take?
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In which states did the Know-Nothing Party enjoy its greatest success?
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What did President Jackson use to reward his political supporters?
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What was the spoils system?
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What was the major criticism of the spoils system?
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What type of reform did Jackson consider the spoils system?
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What did Jackson call the spoils system, and why did Jackson believe it benefited a democracy like the United States?
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How else did Andrew Jackson champion democracy?
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Why did Jackson distrust the Bank of the United States?
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Who made up the Eastern elite?
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What action did President Jackson take in 1832 on the bill to recharter the BUS?
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What is a presidential veto?
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The presidential veto is part of what Constitutional system?
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How did President Jackson's veto of the bank recharter bill differ from all previous presidential vetoes?
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What right did Jackson claim for the president in his message vetoing recharter of the Second BUS?
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How did Andrew Jackson's bank veto make the presidential veto part of the legislative or lawmaking process?
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What precedent was set by President Jackson's bank veto?
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What became the central issue in the presidential election of 1832?
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How did President Jackson interpret his overwhelming victory in the 1832 presidential election?
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What did Jackson make a major goal of his second term as president?
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Did President Jackson succeed in destroying the power of the Second Bank of the United States?
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What other factor contributed to increased popular participation in state and national politics during the Jacksonian Era?
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What did sectional interests mean?
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What was the primary sectional incident of Andrew Jackson’s presidency?
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What did the Tariff of 1832 do?
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What is a tariff?
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What two rights did the leaders of South Carolina argue the states possessed?
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What did it mean for a state to nullify a federal law?
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What did the term secede mean?
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What actions did South Carolina take to oppose the Tariff of 1832?
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How did these actions taken by South Carolina threaten the United States?
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How did President Jackson view South Carolina’s nullification of the Tariff of 1832?
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What action did President Jackson threaten to take in response to South Carolina’s nullification of the tariff?
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What action did Congress take in 1833?
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What effect did the compromise tariff have?
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During the Nullification Crisis, what position did President Jackson take?
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During the Nullification Crisis, what position did South Carolina take?
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What did the Nullification Crisis suggest for the years ahead?
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What group of Americans was hurt by the reforms of Jacksonian democracy?
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As white Americans moved westward during the Jacksonian period, what two things happened to the American Indians?
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What was the result of conflicts between American settlers and Indian nations in the Southeast and old Northwest?
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What president proposed the Indian Removal Act in 1830?
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What did the Indian Removal Act do?
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What was the Trail of Tears?
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What happened to nearly one-fourth of the Cherokees on the Trail of Tears?
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What other Southeastern tribes were forced to move to present-day Oklahoma during the Jacksonian period?
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Name another reform movement that developed during the Jacksonian period.
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What was the main goal of the women’s rights movement?
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When and where did the women’s rights movement begin?
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What right for women did the Seneca Falls Declaration support?
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Who were two of the most important leaders of the women’s suffrage movement?
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Did the women’s suffrage movement continue after the Civil War?
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