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| What was political democracy? |
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| Majority rule of white males. |
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| What legal barriers were erected against the full expression of majority opinion? |
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Only property owners with a stake in gov't could have a voice in governing it.
Had property requirements for voting and officeholding.
Appointed rather than elected offices.
Overrepresentation of older and wealthier regions in state legislatures. |
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| What two things represented an empowerment of the common man? |
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1.) Politics opened to mass participation
2.) Popular styles of religious leadership and worship emerged. |
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| Trend of thought that favors equality. |
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| What was the salary of Congress in 1789? |
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| What was the Salary Act of 1816? |
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| Congress raised their salary to $1,500 per year. |
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| What percentage of Congress was voted out of office because of the Salary Act of 1816? |
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| What marked a turning point in the transition from Federalist-Republic period to the Jacksonian era? |
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| Uproar over the Salary Act. |
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| What changed in the Jacksonian era? |
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- Public started thinking for themselves
- Individual states would define who could vote |
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| Which 6 states entered the Union between 1816 and 1821? |
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| Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama, Missouri, and Maine. |
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| How did suffrage broaden? |
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- Representation made more equal in state legislatures
- Removed or reduced property qualifications for officeholding
- Selection of judges and local officials was given to voters
- Cast ballots instead of oral voting
- Voters could choose presidential electors |
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| By the early 1800s, what two qualities began to replace wealth and status as the basis for defining the limits of political participation? |
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| What were the reasons given for not allowing women to vote? |
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| They were too weak and emotional. |
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| What were the reasons given for not allowing blacks to vote? |
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| They were too lascivious and lazy. |
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| How many Americans were regular churchgoers by 1850? |
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| What was the Second Great Awakening? |
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| Widespread religious movement. |
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| What were the largest religious denominations by the 1820s? |
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| What was the key to the Baptists' and Methodists' success? |
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| Ability to reshape religion to fit the needs and values of ordinary Americans. |
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| Religion of the common people. |
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| Who retained the political power in Jacksonian America? |
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| The role model of the Jacksonian Americans. |
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| Why was the fact that Andrew Jackson lost the election a good thing? |
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| Because people saw how bad John Quincy Adams was, and therefore more supported Jackson. |
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| What was the Albany Regency? |
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| A tightly disciplined state political machine. |
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| Who built the Albany Regency? |
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| What was the election of 1828 centered around? |
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| Personality rather than issues. |
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| What did Jackson personify? |
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| How much of the popular vote did Jackson get? |
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| What was Jackson's first term notable for? |
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| What were the two political struggles in 1832-1833 that gave the Jacksonians a lasting party identity? |
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| Bank War and nullification crisis. |
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| What was the spoils system? |
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| The victorious party gave government jobs to its supporters and removed the appointees of the defeated party. |
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| What was the Maysville Road Bill? |
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| Jackson vetoed; would have provided Federal money for a road to be built only in Kentucky. |
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| What was the Indian removal policy? |
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| Jackson supported driving Indians back from the West and South. |
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| Which five Indian nations made up the largest Indian concentration in the South? |
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| Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles |
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| What was the Trail of Tears? |
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| Jackson told the Indians to move past the American borders if they didn't want to be subject to state laws. So they moved, and many died. |
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| What was Black Hawk's War? |
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| Federal troops again the Sauk and Fox Indians who didn't want to move. |
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| Who was the Pequot William Apess? |
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| Wrote protests against the white man and published them in 1829. |
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| What was the Webster-Ashburton Treaty? |
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| Established the boundary between British Canada and Maine and part of the upper midwest. |
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