Expanding Democracy
This is the right to vote in political elections.
What is suffrage?
This political party formed in opposition to Andrew Jackson and generally supported a national bank and federal economic development.
What is the Whig Party?
This is an organized group that seeks to win elections and influence government policy.
What is a political party?
This intellectual and artistic movement emphasized emotion, imagination, nature, and individual experience.
What is Romanticism?
What type of political gatherings helped Andrew Jackson attract voters during the election of 1828?
Rallies
During the early 1800s, states increasingly removed these requirements, allowing more white men to vote.
What are property ownership and tax requirements?
In this election, Andrew Jackson lost to John Quincy Adams after no candidate won an Electoral College majority, leading to accusations of a “Corrupt Bargain.”
What was the election of 1824?
This system rewarded political supporters with government jobs and increased party loyalty.
What is the spoils system?
This author wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle, helping establish a distinct American literary tradition.
Who was Washington Irving?
This principle states that a government's authority comes from the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
This president promoted greater political participation for ordinary white men and served from 1829 to 1837.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
Jackson fought against this institution because he believed it concentrated too much economic power in the hands of wealthy elites.
What was the Second Bank of the United States?
This is a tax on imported goods intended to protect domestic producers from foreign competition.
What is a protective tariff?
This philosophical movement emphasized self-reliance, individual conscience, and finding spiritual truth through nature and personal experience.
What is Transcendentalism?
This severe financial crisis began in 1837 and led to bank failures, unemployment, and economic hardship during Martin Van Buren's presidency.
What was the Panic of 1837?
These two factors helped expand democracy by attracting new settlers and encouraging people to participate in elections.
What are westward expansion and the growth of political parties?
During this crisis, South Carolina claimed it could refuse to enforce federal tariff laws, while Jackson defended federal authority.
What was the Nullification Crisis of 1832–1833?
What were the two major political parties that competed for power during the 1830s and 1840s?
Democrats and Whigs
This American author wrote The Last of the Mohicans, exploring frontier life, wilderness, and relationships between settlers and Native Americans.
Who was James Fenimore Cooper?
This Supreme Court case supported the Cherokee Nation's position against Georgia's authority in Cherokee territory, but the ruling did not stop removal.
What was Worcester v. Georgia
Although voting rights expanded for white men, these three groups continued to face major political exclusions.
Who were women, most African Americans, and Native Americans?
This 1830 law facilitated the removal of Native Americans from their homelands, and the forced migration of the Cherokee became known as the Trail of Tears.
What was the Indian Removal Act?
What was the name of the political party led by Andrew Jackson?
Democrats
This American landscape-painting movement celebrated the country's natural beauty, wilderness, and distinctive landscapes.
What was the Hudson River School?
What word describes the exclusion of women and most African Americans from equal political rights?
Inequality