Panic of 1819 and Voting Rights
Before voting rights expanded, fewer than this percentage of adult white men could vote.
What is 30%?
These local voting locations increased in number and stayed open longer as the electorate grew.
What are polling places?
Jackson became famous for leading the American victory in this battle.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
This party collapsed after the War of 1812, in part because it opposed the war.
What is the Federalist Party?
Jackson formed this political party in 1824.
What is the Democratic Party?
This economic crises brought unemployment, falling crop sales, and loss of homes and farms.
What is the Panic of 1819?
Voters began writing these down instead of yelling their choices aloud, helping votes be counted later.
What are written ballots?
Jackson spoke against this group of wealthy, powerful men along the East Coast.
What is the Eastern aristocracy?
This Boston politician, son of former president John Adams, won the presidency in 1824.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
Jackson’s campaign used these public events to appeal directly to voters.
What are speeches and barbecues?
These requirements meant a voter had to own land, often while also paying taxes.
What are property requirements?
These public gatherings replaced private, back-room decisions about presidential candidates.
What are public nominating conventions?
This term describes Jackson's charismatic appeal that inspired people to follow him.
What is a cult of a personality?
Jackson received this share of the popular vote in 1824, more than any other candidate.
What is 43%?
Jackson won the presidency in this election, after Adams’s presidency had become unpopular.
What is 1828?
After the Panic of 1819, states increasingly removed these requirements to expand voting.
What are property requirements?
Voters gained a say in choosing these members, who cast votes for president.
What is the Electoral College?
Before becoming a presidential candidate, Jackson served as governor of this territory in 1821.
What is Florida?
When no candidate won an electoral majority, this body chose the president.
What is the House of Representatives?
Jackson was the first president from this region of the United States.
What is the West?
In 1800, only three states - New Hampshire, Vermont, and Kentucky - allowed all white men to vote; by this year, the number had risen to eleven.
What is 1830?
This broader reform describes the shift from nominations controlled by powerful people to a process in which the public could vote for candidates.
What are popular nominations?
In this order, Jackson's career included serving as a delegate to a state constitutional convention, Tennessee's first House member, a senator, and a territorial governor.
What is delegate, House member, senator, and governor?
Jackson used this phrase for the arrangement in which Henry Clay backed Adams and Adams later made Clay Secretary of State.
What is the Corrupt Bargain?
Jackson vetoed this 1830 Kentucky road project, arguing that federal money should not be used for state projects.
What is the Maysville Road?