Age of Jackson Crash Course #14
1. What was a big change to increase democracy prior to the election of
Jackson?
The state legislatures were lowered.
2. What was the goals of the American System?
Finance internal im
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Age of Jackson Crash Course #14
1. What was a big change to increase democracy prior to the election of
Jackson?
The state legislatures were lowered.
2. What was the goals of the American System?
Finance internal improvements, Tariffs, and a new national bank to
replace the First Bank of the United States.
3. What was the Monroe Doctrine?
A type of agreement that stated that the U.S would not get in between
European internal wars between themselves, They also wouldn’t
bother individual colonies that didn’t want or ask for help. Lastly any
type of signs of Europe trying to overtake the U.S would be taken as a
threat.
4. What were the details of the Missouri Compromise?
In order for Missouri to be counted as a state they had to join has slave
state to help keep balance.
5. What was the Corrupt Bargain?
In the election of 1824, John Adams was declared the winner, in
response to this Jackson denounced it as a “Corrupt Bargain”
6. Who comprised the new Jacksonian Democrats?
The Whings.
7. Who were the Whigs and what were their goals?
Whings were a group of people who hated the absolute monarchy. The
American Whings felt that Jackson was getting too much power.
8. What was the Nullification Crisis?
I was a conflicted between South Carolina and the federal government.
Because their main politician was against the tariffs.
9. How did Jackson affect the Native Populations of the Southeast?
He forced them from their homes and uprooted them and moved them
to an unknow place which angered the Natives.
10. Explain Jackson's "Bank War".
It was a campaign started by Jackson to get the Second Bank of the
United States destroyed.
11. What were the causes of the Panic of 1837?
- Failed Wheat crop
- Government stopped taking paper money for land
- sale of cotton dropped
- Britain was in a depression
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