Democracy in America Questions

Please Do at least 5 questions - 1 page!

1.What happened in the 1824 election? What was the Corrupt Bargain and how did it change American politics?

2.How did Jackson win in 1828?

3.What was Jackson’s attitude and policy toward internal improvements? Why? What policies reflect this view?

4.What was Jackson’s attitude and policy toward Indians? Why? What policies reflect this view?

5.What was Jackson’s attitude and policy toward states’ rights? Why? What policies reflect this view?

6.What was Jackson’s attitude and policy toward the Second Bank? Why? What policies reflect this view?

7.What was the role of the Second Bank? Who supported it? Who opposed it? Why?

8.Describe the rise of the Second Party System? What was Martin Van Buren’s role?

9.Describe the platform of the Democratic Party. The Whig Party.

10.What were the causes and consequences of the economic panics?

11.How does the Market Revolution and the Second GreatAwakening lead to the reforming impulse of the Northern middle class?

12.Who are the key reformers? What reforms did they champion?

13.Describe the development of the Abolition movement in the United States.

14.Describe the development of the Women’s Suffrage movement in the United States.

15.Why was slave labor still used in the South in the mid 1800s?

16.What are the economics of slavery?

17.Describe Southern society and the social hierarchy.

18.How did white Southern elites control Southern society and maintain the plantation system?

19.How did slaves resist?