Events
A presidency held from 1829 to 1837 that brought expanded suffrage for white citizens, advocated against a stronger centralized government, and brought the Trail of Tears.
What is Andrew Jackson's presidency?
An intellectual movement that emerged in Europe in the 17th century. This movement produced my secular theories and ideas on power and its uses, such as the social contract, consent to be governed, and democracy.
What is the Enlightenment?
A type of government in which the citizens reserve the power to elect government.
What is democracy?
The political party led by Andrew Jackson.
What is the Democratic Party?
Your presenters are Amaiya and Vanessa.
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A bill vetoed by Andrew Jackson that would have provided federal funding for a road in Kentucky.
The Maysville Road Veto (1830)
Arose as a counter to the rationality of the Enlightenment, and emphasized artistic and intellectual expression of beauty and emotions.
What is Romanticism?
A structure created in the U.S. capitol that reflected American ideals of neoliberalism and ideals of democracy.
What is the White House?
The political party led by Henry Clay in opposition to Jacksonian policy.
What is the Whig Party?
True or False
The expansion of suffrage advocated by the Democratic Party included women and black people.
What is false?
A brief, 15-week conflict in 1832 between the United States and a band of Native Americans led by the Sauk leader Black Hawk resulting from U.S. westward expansion.
What is the Black Hawk War of 1832?
19th-century movement that draws on Romanticism's focus on human potential and the natural world. Includes self-reliance, intuition, divinity in nature, abolition of slavery, and the innate goodness of human nature.
What is transcendentalism?
The appreciation for the beauty and power of American wilderness
(philosophy example)
What is American Romanticism?
Advocated for the establishment the Second Bank of the United States to promote economic growth and establish a national market.
What is the Whigs Party?
True or False
The response from the indigenous toward aggressive U.S. encroachment is usually defensive and aggressive.
A protective tax enacted by Congress on May 19, 1828, that raised import duties to nearly 50% to protect Northern manufacturers. This cropped the Southern economy and triggered the Nullification Crisis.
What is the Tariff of 1828 OR the Tariff of Abominations?
The idea that Americans held a divine right to U.S. expansion.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The lives of early Americans that pioneered U.S. western expansion?
What is frontier life?
Displaced tens of thousands of indigenous people during the Trail of Tears (1838).
What is the Democratic Party?
True or False
Andrew Jackson was a racist.
What is true?
A political showdown in 1832 and 1833 between South Carolina and the federal government contesting whether or not a state could ignore a federal law; a response to the Tariff of Abomination.
The Nullification Crisis
What is the expansion of suffrage?
Advocates for ideas of self-reliance, personal freedom, and primacy of the individual.
Individualism
Favored economic development, public education, and commerce over a purely agrarian lifestyle.
What is the Whig Party?
True or False
The Whigs party was vehemently anti-slavery.
What is false?