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Brinkley Questions Chapter 9

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Brinkley Chapter 9 Guiding Questions 1. What were the general characteristics of ?Jacksonian Democracy,? its philosophy, and its practice? 2. What role did the western states play in the growing democratization of American politics? 3. What groups were excluded from this widening of political opportunity? Why? 4. How did the spoils system fit into Jackson's "democratic" plans? 5. What was the effect of this growth of democracy? How did it change, or not change, the American political system? What is its significance? 6. How has the debate over Jacksonian Democracy focused not only on Andrew Jackson but on the American society in the Jacksonian era as well? 7. What was the dilemma faced by John C. Calhoun, and what factors gave rise to it?

Unit 5 Study Guide

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Chapter 18 John Tyler ? Originally Democrat, ran as a Whig and shot down most Whig legislation. Refused to revive BUS and disapproved funding internal improvements, passed Tariff of 1842. Successfully annexed Texas James Polk ? Democrat, elected as president on Manifest Destiny platform, lowered protective tariff, revived independent treasury, acquired Oregon, seized California in Mexican War Caroline and Creole Incidents British force sink American ship Caroline British officials in the Bahamas offered asylum to 130 Virginia slaves who had rebelled and captured the American ship Creole Aroostook War ? Feuding of lumberjacks, small skirmishes on Maine?s claimed territory of the northern/eastern border that was also claimed by England.

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• Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy o President William Henry Harrison “Old Tippecanoe” – died of pneumonia after only four weeks in office o Daniel Webster – Secretary of State o Henry Clay – uncrowned King of the Whigs and their ablest spokesman in Senate o John Tyler – new president; Virginia gentleman of the old school; stubbornly attached to principle o Accused of being a Democrat in Whig clothing o Whigs put him on ticket to attract the vote of the fringe group of Jeffersonian states’ righters o Whigs wanted financial reform o Whig congress hastened to pass a law ending the independent treasury system, Tyler signed it o Passed a bill for a “Fiscal Bank” which would establish a new Bank of the United States, Tyler vetoed
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